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2022 Rugby Europe Super Cup

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2022 Rugby Europe Super Cup
Tournament details
Countries Belgium
 Georgia
 Israel
 Netherlands
 Portugal
 Romania
 Spain
Date10 September - 17 December 2022
Tournament statistics
Teams8
Matches played27
Attendance16,275 (603 per match)
Highest attendance1,900
Lowest attendance200
Tries scored169 (6.26 per match)
Final
ChampionsGeorgia (country) Black Lion (2nd title)
Runners-upIsrael Tel Aviv Heat
← 2021–22 (Previous)
(Next) 2023 →

The 2022 Rugby Europe Super Cup was the second edition of the Rugby Europe Super Cup, an annual rugby union competition for professional franchises outside the three 'big leagues' of European Rugby. The competition featured two new teams, the Romanian Wolves and RC Batumi from Georgia.

Format

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Each participant played home and away-fixtures in six rounds of action, to be played between September and December. At the end of the pool stage, the top two teams from each conference qualified for the semi-finals, with the conference winners hosting the ties.

Teams

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Nation Stadium Head coach Captain
Home stadium Capacity Location
Georgia (country) Batumi RC Batumi Rugby Arena 1,500 Batumi Georgia (country) Irakli Ninidze Giorgi Tkhilaishvili
Georgia (country) Black Lion Aia Arena
Avchala Stadium
5,000
2,500
Kutaisi
Tbilisi
Georgia (country) Levan Maisashvili Merab Sharikadze
Belgium Brussels Devils Nelson Mandela Stadium 750 Brussels Belgium Thibaut André Viktor Pazgrat
Spain Castilla y León Iberians Estadio Pepe Rojo 5,000 Valladolid Spain Miguel Velasco Silvio Castiglioni
Netherlands Delta RC Eemland Stadium 500 Amsterdam Netherlands Allard Jonkers Hugo Langelaan
Portugal Lusitanos CAR Jamor 2,500 Lisbon France Patrice Lagisquet João Belo
Romania Romanian Wolves[1] Stadionul Arcul de Triumf 8,207 Bucharest New Zealand Sosene Anesi Ovidiu Cojocaru
Israel Tel Aviv Heat Shlomo Bituach Stadium 11,500 Petah Tikva South Africa Kevin Musikanth Jordan Chait

Group stage

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Eastern Conference

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Advances to semi-finals
Pos. Team Games Points Tries TBP LBP Table
points
Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Diff For Against Diff
1 Georgia (country) Black Lion 6 4 1 1 201 79 +122 30 7 +23 4 1 23
2 Israel Tel Aviv Heat 6 4 1 1 165 95 +70 21 12 +9 1 0 19
3 Georgia (country) Batumi RC 6 2 0 4 68 142 -74 9 17 -8 1 0 9
4 Romania Romanian Wolves 6 1 0 5 92 210 -118 9 30 -21 0 1 5
Points were awarded to the teams as follows:
Win – 4 points | Draw – 2 points | At least 3 more tries than opponent – 1 point | Loss within 7 points – 1 point

Round 1

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10 September 2022
19:00 EEST (UTC+02:00)
(1 LBP) Romanian Wolves Romania20 – 25Israel Tel Aviv Heat
Report
Stadionul Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest
Attendance: 1000
Referee: Georgia (country) Giga Mshvenieradze
11 September 2022
16:30 GET (UTC+04)
Batumi RC Georgia (country)3 – 29Georgia (country) Black Lion (1 TBP)
Report
Batumi Rugby Arena, Batumi
Attendance: 1,800
Referee: France Adrien Marbot

Round 2

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17 September 2022
16:00 EEST (UTC+03)
Romanian Wolves Romania37 – 15Georgia (country) Batumi RC
Report
Stadionul Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Portugal Paulo Duarte
18 September 2022
16:30 GET (UTC+04)
Black Lion Georgia (country)25 – 25Israel Tel Aviv Heat
Report
Aia Arena, Kutaisi
Attendance: 800
Referee: Italy Filippo Russo

Round 3

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24 September 2022
15:00 GET (UTC+04)
Batumi RC Georgia (country)19 – 11Israel Tel Aviv Heat
Report
Batumi Rugby Arena, Batumi
Attendance: 250
Referee: Romania Alexandru Ionescu
25 September 2022
16:00 GET (UTC+04)
(1 TBP) Black Lion Georgia (country)43 – 21Romania Romanian Wolves
Report
Aia Arena, Kutaisi
Attendance: 850
Referee: Ireland Andrew Cole

Round 4

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15 October 2022
14:30 GET (UTC+04)
(1 TBP) Batumi RC Georgia (country)23 – 3Romania Romanian Wolves
Report
Batumi Rugby Arena, Batumi
Attendance: 500
Referee: Spain Iñigo Atorrasagasti
16 October 2022
14:00 IDT (UTC+03)
Tel Aviv Heat Israel24 – 18Georgia (country) Black Lion (1 LBP)
Report
Shlomo Bituach Stadium, Petah Tikva
Attendance: 400
Referee: Portugal Paulo Duarte

Round 5

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22 October 2022
11:30 IDT (UTC+03)
Tel Aviv Heat Israel25 – 8Georgia (country) Batumi RC
Report
Shlomo Bituach Stadium, Petah Tikva
Attendance: 400
Referee: Romania Cristian Șerban
23 October 2022
18:00 EEST (UTC+03:00)
Romanian Wolves Romania6 – 49Georgia (country) Black Lion (1 TBP)
Report
Stadionul Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest
Attendance: 500
Referee: Italy Federico Vedovelli

Round 6

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29 October 2022
16:00 GET (UTC+04)
Black Lion Georgia (country)37 – 0Georgia (country) Batumi RC
Report
Avchala Stadium, Tbilisi
Attendance: 550
Referee: Ireland Andrew Cole
30 October 2022
TBC IST (UTC+02)
(1 TBP) Tel Aviv Heat Israel55 – 5Romania Romanian Wolves
Report
Shlomo Bituach Stadium, Petah Tikva
Attendance: 500
Referee: Netherlands Gert Visser

Western Conference

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Advances to semi-finals
Pos. Team Games Points Tries TBP LBP Table
points
Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Diff For Against Diff
1 Portugal Lusitanos 6 5 0 1 297 66 +231 38 8 +30 3 1 24
2 Spain Castilla y León Iberians 6 5 0 1 189 71 +118 28 9 +19 3 1 24
3 Belgium Brussels Devils 6 1 0 5 75 322 -247 10 42 -32 1 1 6
4 Netherlands Delta 6 1 0 5 95 197 -102 8 22 -14 0 1 5
Points were awarded to the teams as follows:
Win – 4 points | Draw – 2 points | At least 3 more tries than opponent – 1 point | Loss within 7 points – 1 point | Completing a Grand Slam – 1 point

Round 1

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10 September 2022
15:00 CEST (UTC+02)
Brussels Devils Belgium3 – 61Spain Castilla y León Iberians (1 TBP)
Report
Nelson Mandela Stadium, Brussels
Attendance: 250
Referee: Germany Kilian O'Brien
11 September 2022
12:30 CEST (UTC+02)
(1 LBP) Delta Netherlands19 – 26Portugal Lusitanos
Report
RC Eemland, Amersfoort
Attendance: 300
Referee: Romania Cristian Șerban

Round 2

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17 September 2022
17:00 WEST (UTC+01)
(1 TBP) Lusitanos Portugal95 – 0Belgium Brussels Devils
Report
Estádio Nacional, Lisbon
Attendance: 200
Referee: Spain Iñigo Atorrasagasti
18 September 2022
12:00 CEST (UTC+02)
Castilla y León Iberians Spain22 – 7Netherlands Delta
Report
Estadio Pepe Rojo, Valladolid
Attendance: 800
Referee: Belgium John Catteau

Round 3

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24 September 2022
15:30 CEST (UTC+02)
Delta Netherlands21 – 14Belgium Brussels Devils (1 LBP)
Report
RC Eemland, Amersfoort
Attendance: 175
Referee: Switzerland Ethan Glass
24 September 2022
18:00 CEST (UTC+02)
(1 LBP) Castilla y León Iberians Spain20 – 22Portugal Lusitanos
Report
Estadio Pepe Rojo, Valladolid
Attendance: 500
Referee: Georgia (country) Saba Abulashvili

Round 4

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15 October 2022
16:30 WEST (UTC+01)
(1 LBP) Lusitanos Portugal12 – 17Spain Castilla y León Iberians
Report
Estádio Nacional, Lisbon
Attendance: 200
Referee: Georgia (country) Shota Tevzadze
15 October 2022
20:00 CEST (UTC+02)
(1 TBP) Brussels Devils Belgium48 – 21Netherlands Delta
Report
Nelson Mandela Stadium, Brussels
Attendance: 600
Referee: Georgia (country) Saba Abulashvili

Round 5

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22 October 2022
13:00 CEST (UTC+02)
Delta Netherlands17 – 40Spain Castilla y León Iberians (1 TBP)
Report
RC Eemland, Amersfoort
Attendance: 300
Referee: Romania Alexandru Ionescu
22 October 2022
15:30 CEST (UTC+02)
Brussels Devils Belgium0 – 95Portugal Lusitanos (1 TBP)
Report
Nelson Mandela Stadium, Brussels
Attendance: 600
Referee: Ireland Keane Davison

Round 6

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28 October 2022
20:00 WEST (UTC+01)
(1 TBP) Lusitanos Portugal47 – 10Netherlands Delta
Report
Estádio Nacional, Lisbon
Attendance: 200
Referee: Italy Alex Frasson
30 October 2022
12:20 CET (UTC+01)
(1 TBP) Castilla y León Iberians Spain29 – 10Belgium Brussels Devils
Report
Estadio Pepe Rojo, Valladolid
Attendance: 900
Referee: Scotland Michael Todd

Play-Offs

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Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
4 December – Tbilisi
 
 
Georgia (country) The Black Lion41
 
17 December – Tbilisi
 
Spain Castilla y León Iberians9
 
Georgia (country) The Black Lion29
 
4 December – Lisbon
 
Israel Tel Aviv Heat17
 
Portugal Lusitanos XV22
 
 
Israel Tel Aviv Heat30
 

Semi-finals

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4 December 2022
16:00 GET (UTC+04)
Black Lion Georgia (country)41 – 9Spain Castilla y León Iberians
Report
Avchala Stadium, Tbilisi
Attendance: 600
Referee: Italy Federico Vedovelli
4 December 2022
15:00 WET (UTC+00)
Lusitanos Portugal22 – 30Israel Tel Aviv Heat
Report
Estádio Nacional, Lisbon
Attendance: 200
Referee: Georgia (country) Shota Tevzadze

Final

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17 December 2022
16:00 GET (UTC+04)
Black Lion Georgia (country)29 – 17Israel Tel Aviv Heat
Report
Avchala Stadium, Tbilisi
Attendance: 1,900
Referee: Portugal Paulo Duarte

References

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  1. ^ "The Romanian Wolves will join the Rugby Europe Super Cup for the 2022/23 season, with the second edition starting in September". Retrieved 25 May 2022.