2019 Rugby Europe Women's Championship

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.

2019 Women's European Championship
Final positions
Champions Spain
Runner-up Netherlands
Tournament statistics
Matches played4
← ← 2018
2018–19 (Trophy)
2020 →

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-finalsFinal
 
      
 
23 February 2019
 
 
 Spain41
 
3 May 2019
 
 Russia0
 
 Spain54
 
9 March 2019
 
 Netherlands0
 
 Netherlands46
 
 
 Germany17
 
Third place
 
 
4 May 2019
 
 
 Germany5
 
 
 Russia22

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 [-/-/-]

See also

References
  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.
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