2019 Rugby Europe Women's Championship

2019 Women's European Championship
Final positions
Champions	Spain
Runner-up	Netherlands
Tournament statistics
Matches played	4
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The 2019 Rugby Europe Women's Championship was the 23rd edition of Rugby Europe's top division competition for women's national rugby union teams, and the eleventh such tournament for which the European Championship title was awarded.

The tournament was held from 23 February to 4 May 2019 as a knockout competition, with the four highest ranked teams in Europe not participating in the Women's Six Nations competing. For the first time the competition was not held in a single location - each match instead was hosted by the higher seeded team.[1] Spain won the championship to take its fourth European title and third consecutive title and seventh overall.[2][3]

Format

The four teams, based on the world rankings at the time of issuing the tournament regulations, were assigned a seeding from 1 to 4, the highest being that of Spain and, subsequently, the Netherlands, Germany and Russia. The format was a four team semifinal bracket, with the teams seeded 1 and 2 meeting the teams seeded 4 and 3 respectively. A final for the title was played between the two semifinal winners and a match for third place was played by the defeated semifinal teams.

Results

Semi-finals		Final

23 February 2019

Spain	41
		3 May 2019
Russia	0
		Spain	54
9 March 2019
		Netherlands	0
Netherlands	46

Germany	17
		Third place

		4 May 2019

		Germany	5

		Russia	22

Semi-finals

[1299]
	2019-02-23 16:00 CET (UTC+1)	Spain	41–0 Report	Russia	Madrid, Spain	[-/-/-]

[1305]
	2019-03-09 15:35 CET (UTC+1)	Netherlands	46–17 Report	Germany	Amsterdam, Netherlands	[-/-/-]

3rd Place

[1312]
	2019-05-04 15:00 CET (UTC+1)	Germany	5–22 Report	Russia	Bonn, Germany	[-/-/-]

Final

[1311]
	2019-03-30 14:50 CET (UTC+1)	Spain	54–0 Report	Netherlands	Madrid, Spain	[-/-/-]

References

"España derrota a Rusia por 41-0 y se mete en la final del Europeo" (in Spanish). RTVE. 22 February 2019. Archived from the original on 24 February 2019.
"Las Leonas consiguen su séptimo título europeo con récord de asistencia" (in Spanish). RTVE. 30 March 2019.
"Spain retain Rugby Europe Women's Championship". World Rugby. 30 March 2019. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019.

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[1] "España derrota a Rusia por 41-0 y se mete en la final del Europeo" (in Spanish). RTVE. 22 February 2019. Archived from the original on 24 February 2019.

[2] "Las Leonas consiguen su séptimo título europeo con récord de asistencia" (in Spanish). RTVE. 30 March 2019.

[3] "Spain retain Rugby Europe Women's Championship". World Rugby. 30 March 2019. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019.