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European Nations Cup (ENC)

After precursor competitions in the 1930s and 1950s FIRA launched its annual Nations Cup in 1965. The teams were divided into a top tier A Division and a second tier B Division playing round robin matches with promotion and relegation between them (later a C Division was added and the label of the divisions changed several times). Beginning with 1973/74 the competition was renamed to FIRA Trophy.
Since 2000 onwards, the competition was reorganized as the European Nations Cup for all those nations not playing in the Six Nations. So sometimes it is also referred as European amateur championship. There is still promotion and relegation between the up to seven divisions.

		Champions	Final	Runners-up	Third place
Unofficial European Championship
1935, Apr 22	Roma ITA	FRA	44:6	ITA	---
1936, May 14-17	Berlin GER	FRA	19:14	GER	ITA
1937, Oct 10-17	Paris FRA	FRA	43:5	ITA	GER
1938, May 15-22	București ROU	FRA	---	GER	ROU
European Cup
1952, May 17	Milano ITA	FRA	17:8	ITA	---
1954, Apr 11-24	Roma ITA	FRA	39:12	ITA	---
FIRA Nations Cup
1965, Oct 17 - 1966, Nov 06	---	FRA b	---	ITA	ROU
1966, Nov 27 - 1967, May 28	---	FRA b	---	ROU	ITA
1967, Oct 29 - 1968, Jun 02	---	FRA b	---	ROU	TCH
1968, Oct 27 - 1969, Nov 09	---	ROU	---	FRA b	TCH
1969, Nov 09 - 1970, Oct 25	---	FRA b	---	ROU	ITA
1970, Nov 29 - 1971, May 09	---	FRA b	---	ROU	MAR
1971, Dec 11 - 1972, May 21	---	FRA b	---	ROU	MAR
1972, Nov 27 - 1973, Jun 03	---	FRA b	---	ROU	ESP
FIRA Trophy
1973, Nov 11 - 1974, May 19	---	FRA b	---	ROU	ESP
1974, Oct 13 - 1975, May 10	---	ROU	---	FRA b	ITA
1975, Oct 25 - 1976, May 15	---	FRA b	---	ITA	ROU
1976, Oct 17 - 1977, Jul 01	---	ROU	---	FRA b	ITA
1977, Oct 02 - 1978, May 28	---	FRA b	---	ROU	ESP
1978, Nov 18 - 1979, May 20	---	FRA b	---	ROU	URS
1979, Sep 30 - 1980, May 18	---	FRA b	---	ROU	ITA
1980, Oct 01 - 1981, May 17	---	ROU	---	FRA b	ITA
1981, Oct 25 - 1982, May 22	---	FRA b	---	ITA	ROU
1982, Oct 24 - 1983, May 22	---	ROU	---	ITA	URS
1983, Oct 30 - 1984, May 27	---	FRA b	---	ROU	ITA
1984, Oct 06 - 1985, May 31	---	FRA b	---	URS	ITA
1985, Oct 20 - 1987, May 09	---	FRA b	---	URS	ROU
1987, Oct 25 - 1989, Jun 02	---	FRA b	---	URS	ROU
1989, Oct 22 - 1990, May 27	---	FRA b	---	URS	ROU
1990, Sep 30 - 1992, May 28	---	FRA b	---	ITA	ROU
1992, Oct 01 - 1994, May 28	---	FRA b	---	ITA	ROU
1994, Oct 15 - 1996, May 25	Grenoble FRA	ITA	40:32	FRA	---
1996, Sep 22 - 1997, May 17	Madrid ESP	ESP	25:18	POR	POL
1997, Oct 25 - 1998, Jun 02	---	LAT	---	LTU	SUI
1998, Sep 26 - 1999, May 29	---	RUS	---	UKR	CZE
European Nations Cup
2000, Feb 06 - Apr 02	---	ROU	---	GEO	MAR
2001, Feb 04 - Apr 08	---	GEO	---	ROU	RUS
2002, Feb 03 - Apr 07	---	ROU	---	GEO	RUS
2003, Feb 16 - 2004, Mar 27	---	POR	---	ROU	GEO
2004, Nov 20 - 2006, Jun 10	---	ROU	---	GEO	POR
2007, Feb 03 - 2008, May 10	---	GEO	---	RUS	ROU
2008, Nov 08 - 2009, May 02	---	GEO	---	RUS	POR
2010, Feb 06 - Mar 27	---	ROU	---	GEO	RUS
2011, Feb 05 - Aug 20	---	GEO	---	ROU	POR
2012, Feb 04 - Jun 09	---	GEO	---	ESP	ROU
2013, Feb 02 - Mar 16	---	GEO	---	ROU	RUS
2014, Feb 01 - Mar 15	---	GEO	---	ROU	RUS
2015, Feb 07 - Mar 21	---	GEO	---	ROU	ESP
2016, Feb 06 - Mar 19	---	GEO	---	ROU	RUS
2017, Feb 11 - Mar 18	---	GEO	---	RUS	GER
2018, Feb 10 - Mar 18	---	GEO	---	RUS	GER

1935: This single match is not recognized as official test match by the French Rugby Union.
1936: Olympic Four Nations Tournament
1937: Tournament at the World Exposition
1938: Three Nations Tournament
1952, 1954: Knockout Tournaments
1994/96: Due to preparation for the 1995 World Cup the format in the top division was changed into a preliminary round without FRA, ITA and ROU, following by a pool round (two groups) of the best ten teams including FRA, ITA and ROU and ending with a final match of the both group winners on Mar 22, 1997.
1996/97: The tournament consisted of pool round followed by a knockout stage. FRA, ITA and ROU did not participate.
1997/98: Only weaker nations took part, because the strongest 15 member nations played the World Cup qualifiers.
1998/99: As the World Cup qualifiers were still in progress only weaker nations took part.
2017, 2018: Ranking was changed as BEL, ESP and ROU fielded one or more ineligible players on several games.

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Women′s European Championship

The competition has its origins in a four nation European Cup held in 1988 but did not become an official FIRA competition until 1995.
Since 2000, only the winners of the tournament held in between the World Cups (every four years, shown in bold) is officially recognized as European Champions.
From 2009 onwards, it was announced that the non-Championship tournaments would be known as the European Trophy.
Most times without any Six Nations team involved.

		Champions	Final	Runners-up	Third place
1988, May 21-23	Bourg-en-Bresse FRA	FRA	---	GBR	NED
1995, Apr 12+16	Treviso ITA	ESP	22:6	FRA	ITA
1996, Apr 10-14	Madrid ESP	FRA	15:10	ESP	ITA
1997, Apr 02-06	Nice FRA	ENG	24:8	SCO	ESP
1999, Apr 19-24	Belluno ITA	FRA	13:5	ESP	SCO
2000, May 08-13	Almeria ESP	FRA	31:0	ESP	ENG
2001, May 06-12	Lille FRA	SCO	15:3	ESP	ENG „A”
2002, Mar 20+23	Treviso ITA	ITA	35:24	SWE	GER
2003, May 01+03	Malmö SWE	ESP „A”	16:10	FRA „A”	SWE
2004, May 01-08	Toulouse FRA	FRA	8:6	ENG	SCO
2005, Apr 07+09	Hamburg GER	ITA	22:3	NED	SWE
2006, Apr 23-30	San Donà di Piave ITA	ITA	28:7	NED	RUS
2007, Apr 28 - May 05	Madrid ESP	ENG „A”	27:17	FRA „A”	ESP
2008, May 17-24	Amsterdam NED	ENG	12:6	WAL	IRL
2009, May 17-23	Stockholm, Uppsala SWE	SCO, SWE		---	NED, ESP
2010, May 08-15	Strasbourg FRA	ESP	31:13	ITA	NED
2011, Apr 30 - May 07	La Coruña ESP	ENG „A”	5:3	ESP	FRA „A”
2012, May 13-19	Rovereto ITA	ENG	---	FRA	ITA
2014, Oct 30 - Nov 02	Bruxelles BEL	NED	12:3	BEL	RUS
2015, Oct 29 - Nov 01	Unterägeri SUI	BEL	50:20	SUI	RUS
2016, Oct 06-15	Madrid ESP	ESP	35:7	NED	RUS
2018, Feb 27 - Mar 03	Bruxelles BEL	ESP	40:7	NED	GER

2009: No placement matches were played. Both pool winners qualified to the World Cup.

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Sevens Grand Prix Series Men

2011, the FIRA European Sevens were converted to the Sevens Grand Prix Series.
Following the model of the IRB Sevens World Series the FIRA organizes several tournaments. Depending on their finishing position the teams earn points accumulating over the complete series.

FIRA European Sevens (defunct)

		Champions	Final	Runners-up	Third place
2002, Aug 17-18	Heidelberg GER	POR	24:14	GEO	GER
2003, Aug 16-17	Heidelberg GER	POR	26:21	FRA	GEO
2004, Jul 16-17	Palma de Mallorca ESP	POR	21:14	ITA	IRL
2005, Jul 16-17	Moskva RUS	POR	28:26	RUS	ITA
2006, Jul 15-16	Moskva RUS	POR	19:7	RUS	ITA
2007, Jul 07-08	Moskva RUS	RUS	35:10	FRA	MDA
2008, Jul 05-06	Heidelberg GER	POR	26:21	WAL	GEO
2009, Jul 11-12	Hannover GER	RUS	26:17	FRA	ITA
2010, Jul 10-11	Moskva RUS	POR	12:5	FRA	RUS

Sevens Grand Prix Series

	Champions	Pts.	Runners-up	Pts.	Third place	Pts.
2011	POR	63	ENG	62	ESP	59
2012	ENG	50	POR	48	FRA	45
2013	ENG	40	FRA	33	RUS	33
2014	FRA	64	SCO	54	ENG	53
2015	FRA	60	ESP	50	ENG	44
2016	GBR Royals	52	RUS	50	GBR Lions	46
2017	RUS	74	IRL	72	ESP	58
2018	IRL	76	GER	60	RUS	56

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Sevens Grand Prix Series Women

2013, the Sevens Series were converted into the Sevens Grand Prix Series.

Sevens Series (defunct)

		Champions	Final	Runners-up	Third place
2003, May 24	Lunel FRA	ESP	21:12	FRA	SUI
2005, Jun 25-26	Lunel FRA	ENG	14:0	ESP	NED
2006, May 25-27	Limoges FRA	WAL	10:7	ENG	NED
2007, Jun 02-03	Lunel FRA	FRA	19:5	ENG	ESP
2008, Jun 14-15	Limoges FRA	ENG	52:0	NED	RUS
2009, Jul 11-12	Hannover GER	ENG	20:12	ESP	NED
2010, Jul 10-11	Moskva RUS	ESP	28:12	NED	FRA
2011, Jul 16-17	București ROU	ENG	17:7	ESP	NED

Sevens Grand Prix Series

	Champions	Pts.	Runners-up	Pts.	Third place	Pts.
2012	ENG	40	ESP	36	FRA	28
2013	RUS	38	ENG	32	FRA	32
2014	RUS	36	FRA	32	ENG	32
2015	FRA	38	RUS	36	ESP	32
2016	RUS	38	FRA	38	GBR Lions	36
2017	RUS	40	IRL	32	FRA	32
2018	RUS	38	FRA	38	IRL	28

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U21 European Championship (defunct)

		Champions	Final	Runners-up	Third place
2008, Oct 12-18	Heidelberg GER	ROU	32:8	RUS	POR
2009, May 03-09	Madrid ESP	ROU	27:20	GEO	POR

U20 European Championship

2004 and 2005, this competition doubled as qualification to the Under 21 World Championship. The top nations already qualified for the World Championship did not participate.
2007 - 2015, the U20 European Championship was a third tier competition, because the better teams played at the IRB Junior World Championship or IRB Junior World Trophy annually. Since 2017 onwards, this competition doubled as qualification to the IRB Junior World Trophy, instead of the U19 European Championship.

		Champions	Final	Runners-up	Third place
2004, May 16-22	Constanţa ROU	ROU	21:6	GEO	RUS
2005, May 22-28	Valladolid ESP	GEO	15:10	ROU	ESP
2006, Sep 23 - Oct 01	Sopot POL	ROU	---	GEO	RUS
2007, Aug 29 - Sep 02	Klaipėda LTU	UKR	---	LTU	MDA
2008	not played
2009, Nov 18-21	Chișinău MDA	POL	16:15	MDA	SUI
2010, Nov 10-13	Esztergom HUN	LTU	15:11	HUN	SUI
2011, Nov 15-18	Siedlce POL	POL	70:5	MDA	LTU
2012, Sep 01-09	Praha CZE	POL	44:8	CZE	UKR
2013, Aug 25-31	Praha CZE	NED	27:15	CZE	UKR
2014, Aug 22-31	Brno CZE	CZE	25:21	SUI	UKR
2015, Aug 23-29	Praha CZE	SUI	38:0	CZE	LUX
2016	not played
2017, Mar 26 - Apr 01	Bucureşti ROU	POR	12:7	ESP	RUS
2018, Apr 08-14	Coimbra POR	POR	25:3	ESP	RUS

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U19 European Championship (defunct)

Until 2015 this competition doubled as qualification to the IRB Junior World Trophy, and so not featuring the already qualified nations.

		Champions	Final	Runners-up	Third place
2009, Oct 25 - 31	Coimbra POR	ITA	16:3	GEO	ESP
2010, Oct 24 - 30	Bruxelles BEL	GEO	38:7	RUS	ROU
2011, Oct 30 - Nov 05	București ROU	GEO	20:12	RUS	ROU
2012, Oct 27 - Nov 03	Lisboa POR	POR	23:10	GEO	BEL
2013, Oct 27 - Nov 02	Lisboa POR	GEO	32:6	BEL	ESP
2014, Oct 26 - Nov 02	Lisboa POR	GEO	44:14	POR	ESP
2015, Oct 25 - 31	Lisboa POR	ESP	24:3	ROU	POR

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U18 Sevens European Championship Men

Precursor was the U19 Sevens Grand Prix Series replaced by the U18 Sevens European Championship in 2016.

		Champions	Final	Runners-up	Third place
U19 Sevens Grand Prix Series
2013, Apr 13-14	Palma de Mallorca ESP	FRA	55:12	RUS	ESP
2014, May 10-11	Lisboa POR	FRA	38:19	RUS	POR
2015, Apr 25-26	Vichy FRA	FRA	40:0	POR	IRL
U18 Sevens European Championship
2016, Sep 17-18	București ROU	IRL	31:5	FRA	POR
2017, Sep 09-10	Heidelberg GER	IRL	21:19	FRA	ENG
2018, May 05-06	Panevėžys LTU	FRA	26:17	IRL	ESP

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U18 European Championship

Precursor was the Emergent Nations Championship established in the course of reorganization of the Under 19 World Championship.
The top nations compete at the U18 European Championship from 2011 onwards, playing an „Under 18 Six Nations” in 2008 - 2010.

		Champions	Final	Runners-up	Third place
2004, Apr 03-10	Treviso ITA	FRA	32:0	ENG	ITA
2005, Mar 20-26	Lille FRA	ENG	16:9	FRA	SCO
2006, Apr 09-15	Treviso ITA	ENG	15:7	FRA	ITA
2007, Apr 01-07	Biarritz FRA	FRA	8:8 4:3p	IRL	ENG
2008, Mar 16-22	Treviso ITA	FRA	12:5	IRL	ENG
2009, Apr 04-11	Toulon FRA	FRA	20:19	ENG	IRL
2010, Mar 28 - Apr 03	Treviso ITA	FRA	27:3	IRL	GEO
2011, Apr 17-23	Tarbes FRA	IRL	17:8	ENG	WAL
2012, Mar 30 - Apr 07	Madrid ESP	ENG	25:13	IRL	FRA
2013, Mar 22-30	Grenoble FRA	ENG	27:22	FRA	IRL
2014, Apr 11-19	Poznań POL	ENG	30:14	IRL	WAL
2015, Mar 27 - Apr 04	Toulouse FRA	FRA	57:0	GEO	ENG
2016, Mar 18-26	Lisboa POR	FRA	42:0	GEO	POR
2017, Apr 06-16	Quimper FRA	FRA	36:18	GEO	JPN
2018, Mar 24-31	Grodzisk Wielkopolski POL	GEO	8:3	FRA	ESP

2017: “open” competition

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U18 Sevens European Championship Women

2014 and 2015 there was a U18 Sevens Grand Prix Series instead.

		Champions	Final	Runners-up	Third place
U18 Sevens Grand Prix Series Women
2014, Sep 13-14	Enköping SWE	ENG	54:0	WAL	NED
2015, Sep 12-13	Liège BEL	ENG	27:10	ESP	GER
U18 Sevens European Championship Women
2016, Sep 10-11	Vichy FRA	FRA	34:24	USA	CAN
2017, Sep 16-17	Vichy FRA	ENG	31:0	WAL	FRA
2018, Apr 28-29	Vichy FRA	FRA	22:0	GBR	IRL

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Regions European Cup (defunct)

		Champions	Final	Runners-up
2001, Dec 22		Comité de Côte d′Argent FRA	33:24	Comité de Midi-Pyrénées FRA
2002, Dec 22	Pézenas FRA	Comité de Roussillon FRA	15:9aet	Comité de Provence FRA
2003, Dec 21	Lunel FRA	Comité de Roussillon FRA	25:23	Comité de Provence FRA
2004		Comité de Provence FRA	24:18	Comité de Bourgogne FRA
2005, Dec 18	Cahors FRA	Comité de Midi-Pyrénées FRA	8:7	Comité de Provence FRA

Defunct for financial reasons

FIRA European Clubs Cup (defunct)

Organized only three times: 1961/62, 1963/64, 1965/66
A new attempt establishing a European Clubs Cup was started by FIRA-AER in 2005. This third tier club competition (below Heineken Cup and Challenge Cup) was already defunct two years later.

		Champions	Final	Runners-up	Third place
1962, Jun 24	Bucureşti ROU	AS Béziers FRA	11:3	RC Griviţa Roşie Bucureşti ROU	---
1964, Jun 14	Bucureşti ROU	RC Griviţa Roşie Bucureşti ROU	10:0	Stade Montois FRA	---
1966, Jun 15	Bucureşti ROU	CS Dinamo Bucureşti ROU	18:0	SU Agen FRA	---
2005, Nov 18-20	Split CRO	RC Arka Gdynia POL	---	SC Neuenheim 02 GER	RK Nada Split CRO
2006, Dec 02	Split CRO	RK Slavia Zenit Moskva RUS	24:21	RK Nada Split CRO	---

Remark: In 1964 the final match was abandoned by the referee with the score of 10:0 at the beginning of the second half. The skipper of Montois refused to leave the field despite demanding twice by the referee.

European Sevens Clubs Championship (defunct)

		Champions	Final	Runners-up	Third place
2015, May 30-31	Zelenogorod RUS	VVA Podmoskovye RUS	31:26	Slava CSP RUS	BalTrex LTU

European Clubs Cup Women (defunct)

		Champions	Final	Runners-up
2007, Dec 22 + 2008, Apr 19	Montpellier + Barcelona	Montpellier RC FRA	31:8 + 22:3	INEF Barcelona ESP
2009, Feb 01 + 22	Gexto + Toulouges	USA Toulouges XV FRA	19:11 + 82:3	Gexto R.T. ESP

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Euro Beach Rugby Cup (defunct)

		Champions	Final	Runners-up	Third place
2011, Jul 24	Anglet FRA	FRA	4:1	ROU	ITA
2012, Jul 22-24	Anglet FRA	FRA	3:2	RUS	ITA
2013, Jul 19-21	Anglet FRA	FRA	6:0	ITA	GEO

European Beach Five Rugby Championship

1.	2017, Jul 22-23	Moskva RUS
2.	2018, Aug 04-05	Moskva RUS

Men

	Champions	Final	Runners-Up	Third place
2017	ITA	6:5	RUS	GEO
2018	RUS	4:3	GEO	ITA

Women

	Champions	Final	Runners-Up	Third place
2017	RUS	5:0	GEO	BLR
2018	RUS	6:3	ITA	LAT

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Last modified: 08.12.2018