Rugby Europe Under-20 Championship

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Rugby Europe Under-20 Championship

Sport	Rugby union
Founded	2007
No. of teams	8 (2023)
Country	Europe (Rugby Europe)
Most recent champion(s)	Netherlands (2023)
Most titles	Portugal (3 Titles)

The Rugby Europe Under-20 Championship is an annual rugby union championship for Under-20 national teams. It replaced the Under-19 championship that was held since 2007. The championship is organised by rugby's European governing body, the Rugby Europe.

The tournament serves as Europe's qualification to the next year's World Rugby U20 Trophy organised by the World Rugby.

On March 12, 2020, following the recent evolution of COVID-19, Rugby Europe has announced a suspension of all its matches and tournaments, from Friday, March 13, 2020, until April 15, 2020.^[1] On March 26 Rugby Europe has decided to extend the suspension of all its matches and tournaments for an indefinite period of time.^[2] On April 8 Rugby Europe Board of Directors decided to cancel 2020 European Under-20 Rugby Union Championship.^[3]

Results[edit]

U20 European Tournament[edit]

U20 European Championship[edit]

#	Year	Winner	Runner-up	Third Place	Fourth Place
European Under-19 Rugby Union Championship
1	2007	Romania	Poland	Russia	Portugal
2	2008	Romania	Georgia	Russia	Portugal
3	2009	Italy	Georgia	Spain	Russia
4	2010	Georgia	Russia	Romania	Belgium
5	2011	Georgia	Russia	Romania	Netherlands
6	2012	Portugal	Georgia	Belgium	Spain
7	2013	Georgia	Belgium	Spain	Portugal
8	2014	Georgia	Portugal	Spain	Russia
9	2015	Spain	Romania	Portugal	Russia
Rugby Europe Under-20 Championship
10	2017	Portugal	Spain	Russia	Romania
11	2018	Portugal	Spain	Russia	Netherlands
12	2019	Portugal	Spain	Netherlands	France - Nlle Aquitaine
-	2020	Cancelled
13	2021	Spain	Portugal	Russia	Netherlands
14	2022	Spain	Netherlands	Portugal	Belgium
15	2023	Netherlands	Belgium	Portugal	Ligue AURA
16	2024	TBD

Medals (2007-2023)[edit]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	3	0	2	5
2	Croatia	3	0	1	4
3	Greece	2	1	2	5
4	Italy	1	5	3	9
5	Spain	1	3	2	6
6	France	1	0	6	7
7	Hungary	1	0	0	1
8	Austria	0	1	0	1
	England	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
12	Ukraine	0	0	3	3
13	Portugal	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		12	13	22	47

See also[edit]

• European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Rugby Europe official website