2014–2016 European Nations Cup First Division

2014–16 European Nations Cup
2014–16 European Nations Cup
Date	Autumn 2014 – Spring 2016
Countries	Division 1A:; Georgia; Germany; Portugal; Romania; Russia; Spain; Division 1B:; Belgium; Moldova; Netherlands; Poland; Sweden; Ukraine
Tournament statistics
Champions	Georgia (2015, 2016)
Top point scorer(s)	Division 1A:; Merab Kvirikashvili(64 points) Division 1B:; Baptiste Lescarboura (55 points)
Top try scorer(s)	Division 1A:; Zurab Zhvania (5 tries) Division 1B:; Baptiste Lescarboura (11 tries)
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The 2014–16 European Nations Cup First Division is the premier rugby union competition below the Six Nations Championship in Europe. It is divided into two tiers; Division 1A and Division 1B.

The divisions play on a two-year cycle with the teams playing each other both home and away. From 2009 onward, the title is awarded according to a one-year ranking.^[1]

The competition has been slightly altered for the 2014–16 edition. The top tier Division 1A has seen the relegation of Belgium to Division 1B. They have been replaced with Germany, who finished at the top of Division 1B in the 2012–14 season. The bottom tier division 1B has seen the relegation of the Czech Republic to the European Nations Cup Second Division. They have been replaced by Netherlands who won promotion from Division 2A.

The champions of Division 1B will be promoted to Division 1A for the 2017–18 season, while the last placed team in each division will be relegated.

Format

Table points are determined as follows:^[2]

4 points for a win
2 points for a draw
0 point for a loss
1 bonus point for scoring 4 tries in a match
1 bonus point for losing by 7 points or fewer

Division 1A

2015

Table

Key
	2015 champions

Place	Nation	Games					Points			Table points
Place	Nation	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Bonus	For	Against	Diff	Table points
1	Georgia (14)	5	5	0	0	1	158	42	+116	21
2	Romania (17)	5	3	0	2	3	102	61	+41	15
3	Spain (21)	5	3	0	2	2	131	99	+32	14
4	Russia (19)	5	3	0	2	1	103	119	−16	13
5	Portugal (22)	5	1	0	4	1	52	100	−48	5
6	Germany (25)	5	0	0	5	1	61	186	−125	1

Pre-tournament World Rugby Rankings in parentheses

Games

^[3]

7 February 2015

Portugal	10–37	Romania
Try: Nuno Costa 47' c Con: Pedro Ávila Pen: Pedro Ávila 26'	Team Sheet	Try: Robert Dascalu 20' c Mihai Macovei 36' c Ionut Botezatu 42' c Dănuț Dumbravă 47' c Con: Valentin Calafeteanu (4) Pen: Valentin Calafeteanu (3) 3', 12', 15'

Estádio Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Luke Pearce (England)

7 February 2015

Spain	43–20	Russia
Try: Jesus Recuerda Nunez 13' c Martin Heredia (2) 16', 35' c Pedro Martin Enrique (2) 21', 59' Guillaume Rouet 48' c Jaime Nava de Olano 56' c Con: Dan Snee (4)	Team Sheet	Try: Denis Antonov 39' c Igor Galinovsky 79' c Con: Yury Kushnarev (2) Pen: Yury Kushnarev (2) 7', 31'

Estadio Nacional Complutense, Madrid
Attendance: 6,500
Referee: Andrew McMenemy (Scotland)

7 February 2015

Germany	8–64	Georgia
Try: Steffen Liebig 26' Drop: Jeremy Te Huia 2'	Team Sheet	Try: Zurabi Zhvania (3) 12' c, 33' c, 38' Penalty try (2) 16' c, 59' Alexander Todua (2) 39', 63' Lasha Khmaladze 44' c Giorgi Nemsadze 61' c Aleksandre Khutsishvili 66' c Con: Lasha Khmaladze (4) Lasha Malaguradze (3)

Sportpark Martinsee, Heusenstamm
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Laurent Cardona (France)

14 February 2015

Georgia	20–15	Portugal
Try: Davit Kacharava 1' Pen: Merab Kvirikashvili (5) 23', 38', 40', 46', 70'	Team Sheet	Pen: Pedro Ávila (5) 10' 15', 36', 66', 80'

Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Vlad Iordăchescu (Romania)

14 February 2015

Romania	29–8	Spain
Try: Adrian Apostol 15' Viorel Lucaci 36' c Andrei Ursache 61' Valentin Calafeteanu 63' Marius Sîrbe 75' c Con: Valentin Calafeteanu Dănuț Dumbravă	Team Sheet	Try: Guillaume Rouet 50' Pen: Guillaume Rouet 6'

Cluj Arena, Cluj-Napoca
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: David Wilkinson (Ireland)

14 February 2015

Germany	22–46	Russia
Try: Kehoma Brenner (3) 5', 32' c, 56' c Con: Christopher Hilsenbeck (2) Pen: Christopher Hilsenbeck 1'	Team Sheet	Try: Vasily Artemyev (2) 20', 79' c Stanislav Selskii 24' c Igor Kurashov (2) 61' c, 74' Alexey Volkov (2) 65' c, 70' Con: Ramil Gaisin (4) Pen: Ramil Gaisin 68'

Pforzheim
Attendance: 1,300
Referee: Cedric Marchat (France)

28 February 2015

Spain	13–26	Georgia
Try: Julen Goia Iriberri 24' c Con: Brad Linklater Pen: Brad Linklater (2) 1', 38'	Team Sheet	Try: Zurab Zhvania 28' c Davit Kacharava 80' c Con: Merab Kvirikashvili (2) Pen: Merab Kvirikashvili (4) 12', 35', 57', 65'

Estadio Nacional Complutense, Madrid
Attendance: 9,000
Referee: Alexandre Ruiz (France)

28 February 2015

Russia	16–13	Romania
Try: Denis Antonov 45' c Con: Ramil Gaisin Pen: Ramil Gaisin (3) 13', 54', 59'	Team Sheet	Try: Valentin Calafeteanu 20' c Con: Valentin Calafeteanu Pen: Valentin Calafeteanu (2) 40', 61'

Krasnodar
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Ian Davies (Wales)

28 February 2015

Portugal	11–3	Germany
Try: Francisco Sousa 30' Pen: Pedro Bettencourt (2) 76', 80'	Team Sheet	Pen: Christopher Hilsenbeck 55'

Estádio Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon
Attendance: 700
Referee: Giuseppe Vivarini (Italy)

14 March 2015

Georgia	33–0	Russia
Try: Davit Kacharava 71' c Zurab Zhvania 79' c Karlen Asieshvili 80' c Con: Merab Kvirikashvili (3) Pen: Merab Kvirikashvili (4) 3', 29, 55', 64'	Team Sheet

Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi
Attendance: 30,000 (approx)^[4]
Referee: Neil Hennessy (Wales)

14 March 2015

Portugal	8–19	Spain
Try: Tomas Noronha 29' Pen: Nuno Costa 20'	Team Sheet	Try: Julen Goia Iriberri 1' Sergi Aubanell Sevilla 65' Pen: Sergi Aubanell Sevilla (3) 13', 60', 76'

Estádio Municipal Sérgio Conceição, Coimbra
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Matthew Carley (England)

14 March 2015

Germany	12–17	Romania
Pen: Jeremy Te Huia (3) 23', 58', 75' Drop: Dale Garner 17'	Team Sheet	Try: Adrian Apostol 20' Pen: Florin Vlaicu (4) 2', 69', 76', 78'

Fritz-Grunebaum-Sportpark, Heidelberg
Attendance: 2,513
Referee: Lloyd Linton (Scotland)

21 March 2015

Romania	6–15	Georgia
Pen: Valentin Calafeteanu 15' Danut Dumbrava 68'	WR Sheet	Pen: Merab Kvirikashvili (5) 19', 34', 39', 45', 63'

Stadionul Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest
Attendance: 4,500
Referee: Gary Conway (Ireland)

21 March 2015

Russia	21–8	Portugal
Try: Alexey Panasenko 7' c Alexey Shcherban 59' Con: Yury Kushnarev Pen: Yury Kushnarev (3) 19', 40+1', 80+4'	Team Sheet	Try: Salvador Santos 72' Drop: Nuno Costa 25'

Slava Metreveli Central Stadium, Sochi
Attendance: 1,200
Referee: Ian Tempest (England)

21 March 2015

Spain	48–16	Germany
Try: Julen Goia Iriberri (2) 20', 45' c Guillaume Guy Rouet (2) 50' c, 53' Fabien Francois Grammatico 64' c David Barrera Howarth 66' c Jesús Recuerda Núñez 70' c Con: Brad Linklater (5) Pen: Brad Linklater 12'	Team Sheet	Try: Kieran Manawatu 59' Umberto Pilla 80' Pen: Christopher Hilsenbeck (2) 25', 49'

Estadio Nacional Complutense, Madrid
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Claudio Blessano (Italy)

2016

Table

Place	Nation	Games					Points			Table points
Place	Nation	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Bonus	For	Against	Diff	Table points
1	Georgia (12)	5	5	0	0	4	188	33	+155	24
2	Romania (16)	5	4	0	1	3	160	77	+83	19
3	Russia (18)	5	3	0	2	1	128	115	+13	14
4	Spain (22)	5	1	1	3	3	84	88	−4	9
5	Germany (23)	5	1	1	3	1	84	193	−109	7
6	Portugal (30)	5	0	0	5	1	72	210	−138	1

Games

^[5]

6 February 2016
17:15 EET (UTC+2)

Romania	39–14	Portugal
Try: Stephen Shennan (2) 16', 55' Vlad Nistor (2) 43', 60' Andrei Rădoi 66' Con: Florin Vlaicu (4) 17', 44', 57', 67' Pen: Florin Vlaicu (2) 34', 52'	Report^[6]	Try: Duarte Diniz 21' Diogo van den Toorn 27' Con: Nuno Guedes (2) 23', 29'

Cluj Arena, Cluj-Napoca
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Iñigo Atorrasagasti (Spain)

6 February 2016

Russia	22–20	Spain

Sochi
Attendance: 400
Referee: Luke Pearce (England)

6 February 2016
14:00 GET (UTC+4)

Georgia	59–7	Germany

Tbilisi
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Maxime Burlet (Belgium)

13 February 2016

Portugal	3–29	Georgia

Lisbon
Referee: Ian Davies (Wales)

13 February 2016

Spain	18–21	Romania
Try: Sébastien Ascarat (2) 36', 59' Con: Bradley Linklater 37' Pen: Bradley Linklater (2) 11', 21'	Report^[7]	Try: Mihai Macovei 27' Valentin Popârlan 44' Con: Florin Vlaicu 45' Pen: Florin Vlaicu (3) 48', 66', 70'

Madrid
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Alexandre Ruiz (France)

13 February 2016

Russia	46–20	Germany
Try: Anton Rudoi (2) 27', 78' Igor Gurashov 17' Viktor Gresev 23' Alexey Shcherban 46' Yuri Kushnarev 67' Mikhail Babaev 71' Con: Ramil Gaisin (2) 17', 27' Yuri Kushnarev (2) 68', 78' Pen: Ramil Gaisin 13'	Report^[8]	Try: Pavel Butenko 54' Jarrid Els 63' Con: Christopher Hilsenbeck (2) 55', 63' Pen: Christopher Hilsenbeck (2) 19', 29'

Sochi
Referee: Matteo Liperini (Italy)

27 February 2016

Georgia	38–7	Spain

Tbilisi
Referee: Ben Whitehouse (Wales)

27 February 2016

Romania	30–0	Russia

Emil Alexandrescu, Iași
Referee: Lloyd Linton (Scotland)

27 February 2016

Germany	50–26	Portugal
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Rudolf-Kalweit-Stadion, Hannover
Attendance: 8,173^[9]
Referee: Frank Murphy (Ireland)

12 March 2016

Russia	7–24	Georgia

Sochi
Referee: Matthew Carley (England)

12 March 2016

Spain	39–7	Portugal

Madrid
Referee: Sean Gallagher (Ireland)

12 March 2016

Romania	61–7	Germany

Emil Alexandrescu, Iași
Referee: Claudio Blessano (Italy)

19 March 2016

Georgia	38–9	Romania

Boris Paichadze, Tbilisi
Attendance: 53,400
Referee: Tual Trainini (France)

19 March 2016

Portugal	21–53	Russia

Lisbon
Referee: Thomas Charabas (France)

19 March 2016

Germany	17–17	Spain

Sportpark Höhenberg, Cologne
Attendance: 6,214^[10]
Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania)

Combined table (2015–2016)

Place	Nation	Games					Points			Table points
Place	Nation	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Bonus	For	Against	Diff	Table points
1	Georgia (12)	10	10	0	0	5	346	75	+271	45
2	Romania (16)	10	7	0	3	6	262	138	+124	34
3	Russia (18)	10	6	0	4	3	231	234	−3	27
4	Spain (22)	10	4	1	5	5	232	207	+28	23
5	Germany (23)	10	1	1	8	2	162	396	−234	8
6	Portugal (30)	10	1	0	9	2	124	310	−196	6

Note: Portugal is relegated to 2016–17 Rugby Europe Trophy.

Division 1B

2014–15

Table

2014–15 champions

Place	Nation	Games				Points			Bonus points	Table points
Place	Nation	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Diff	Bonus points	Table points
1	Belgium (30)	5	5	0	0	189	78	+111	2	22
2	Moldova (29)	5	3	0	2	158	83	+75	4	16
3	Ukraine (32)	5	3	0	2	108	81	+27	1	13
4	Netherlands (31)	5	2	0	3	81	74	+7	3	11
5	Poland (35)	5	2	0	3	103	146	−43	2	10
6	Sweden (44)	5	0	0	5	49	226	−177	0	0

Pre-tournament IRB rankings in parentheses (as at 1 September 2014)

Games

^[11]

6 September 2014

Poland	29–17	Sweden
Try: Tomasz Gasik (2) 5' c, 33' c Piotr Zeszutek 44' c Grzegorz Buczek 79' Con: Banaszek Dawid (3) Pen: Banaszek Dawid 77'	Report^[12]	Try: Jonathon Edwards 18' c Penalty try 68' c Con: Neil Erasmus (2) Pen: Neil Erasmus 23'

Stadion Polonii, Warsaw
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania)

18 October 2014

Poland	9–8	Netherlands
Pen: Banaszek Dawid (3) 10', 13', 73'	Team Sheet	Try: Pieter Mol 63' Pen: Tomasz Rokicki 17'

Warsaw
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Maxime Burlet (Belgium)

18 October 2014

Sweden	0–45	Ukraine
	Team Sheet	Try: Vitalii Krasnodemskyi (2) 2', 32' Sergii Garkavyi (2) 20' c, 37' Oleg Kosariev 55' c Eduard Vertyletskyi 80' c Con: Oleg Kosariev (3) Pen: Oleg Kosariev (2) 16', 40' Drop: Volodymyr Voitov 30'

Enköping
Referee: Graeme Wells (Scotland)

8 November 2014

Moldova	29–15	Ukraine
Try: Nicolae Chirila 6' Ion Cavcaliuc 21' Ruslan Dorogan 32' c Gheorghe Gajion 65' c Maxim Cobilas 73' Con: Craig Felston (2)	Team Sheet	Try: Vitalii Krasnodemsky 12' c Oleksandr Khomenko 58' Con: Ihor Snisarenko Pen: Ihor Snisarenko 18'

Dinamo Stadium, Chișinău
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Thomas Charabas (France)

15 November 2014

Moldova	48–25	Poland
Try: Oleg Prepelita (4) 7', 32' c, 65' c, 75' Gheorghe Gajion 16' c Dumitru Arhip 21' Penalty try 29' c Vasili Buzgan 42' Con: Mihai Golubenco (4)	Team Sheet	Try: Robert Kwiatkowski 38' c Tomasz Rokicki (2) 46' c, 50' Con: Dawid Banaszek (2) Pen: Dawid Banaszek (2) 4', 40+4'

Dinamo Stadium, Chișinău
Attendance: 900
Referee: Giuseppe Vivarini (Italy)

15 November 2014

Belgium	25–10	Ukraine
Try: Julien Berger 48' c Con: Nicolas Meeus Pen: Nicolas Meeus (6) 4', 40', 54', 71', 77', 80'	Team Sheet	Try: Oleksandr Polianskyi 18' c Con: Volodymyr Voitov Pen: Andrii Shakura 45'

Namur
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania)

22 November 2014

Moldova	57–8	Sweden
Try: Oleg Prepelita (3) 11' c, 22' c, 63' c Gheorghe Gajion 34' c Andrei Romanov (3) 43' c, 47', 69' Mihai Artic 55' c Gheorghe Volosciuc 79' Con: Mihai Golubenco (6)	Team Sheet	Try: Daniel Chamberlain 71' Pen: Ian Gowland 9'

Dinamo Stadium, Chișinău
Attendance: 500
Referee: Tomáš Tuma (Czech Republic)

21 February 2015

Netherlands	21–23	Belgium
Try: Pieter Mol 35' Pascal van Overeem 39' c Con: Leon Koenen Pen: Leon Koenen (2) 25', 32' Storm Carroll 77'	Team Sheet	Try: Penalty try 15' c Baptiste Lescarboura (2) 27', 80' Con: Nicolus Meeus Pen: Nicolus Meeus (2) 8', 23'

National Rugby Centre Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Leo Colgan (Ireland)

28 February 2015

Netherlands	18–10	Moldova
Try: Dirk Danen 27' Sep Visser 40' Leon Koenen 72' Pen: Leon Koenen 5'	Team Sheet	Try: Veaceslav Titica (2) 53', 79'

National Rugby Centre Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Paulo Duarte (Portugal)

14 March 2015

Belgium	17–14	Moldova
Try: Christope Debaty 17' c Thomas Demolder 35' c Con: Alan Williams (2) Pen: Alan Williams 45'	Team Sheet	Try: Veaceslav Titica 42' Vadim Cobilas 57' Con: Octavian Manoli Dorin Petrache

Brussels
Referee: Iñigo Atorrasagasti (Spain)

28 March 2015

Belgium	71–10	Sweden
Try: Thomas Demolder 7' c Baptiste Lescarboura (3) 10' c, 36', 46' c Alan Williams 18' Alain Miriallakis (3) 22' c, 27' c, 39' c Floriant Piron (2) 54' c, 74' c Hugo Sensee 59' Con: Alan Williams (7) Pablo Francisco Villar	Team Sheet	Try: Andreas Austa 25' c Con: Andreas Nilserius Pen: Jonathan Edwards 13'

KVW-Zaventem Stadium, Brussels
Attendance: 950
Referee: Ben Whitehouse (Wales)

18 April 2015

Belgium	53–23	Poland
Try: Charles Reynaert (2) Guillaume Piron Baptiste Lescarboura Bertrand Bilii Max Dubois Quentin Boucar Kevin Williams Con: Florian Piron (2) Nicolas Meeus (3) Pen: Florian Piron		Try: Mateusz Bartoszek Patryk Reksulak Con: Dawid Banaszek (2) Pen: Dawid Banaszek (2) Drop: Dawid Popławski

Brussels
Attendance: 2,000

9 May 2015

Poland	17–20	Ukraine
Try: Tomasz Rokicki 3' Pen: Dawid Banaszek (4) 21', 28', 56', 69'	Team Sheet	Try: Vitali Kramarenko 9' c Ievgen Chaika 51' c Con: Oleg Kosariev (2) Pen: Oleg Kosariev (2) 14', 80+4'

Arena Lublin, Lublin
Attendance: 7,500
Referee: Tomáš Tůma (Czech Republic)

23 May 2015

Ukraine	18–10	Netherlands
Try: Vyecheslav Ponomarenko 60' try 70' Oleg Kosariev 78' Drop: Oleg Kosariev 52'		Try: Norbecio Mambo 56' c Con: Maarten Van Osch 57' Pen: Storm Carroll 3'

Odesa

30 May 2015

Netherlands	24–14	Sweden
Try: Rik Roovers 7' Kyle Beakey 41' c Leon Koenan 66' c Norbecio Mambo 72' Con: Leon Koenan Maarten Van Osch		Try: Magnus Rappestad 21' c Dustin Eaton 62' c Con: Dustin Eaton Neill Erasmus

Amsterdam
Attendance: 1,000

2015–16

Table

Place	Nation	Games				Points			Bonus points	Table points
Place	Nation	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Diff	Bonus points	Table points
1	Ukraine (31)	5	5	0	0	136	84	+30	3	23
2	Belgium (26)	5	4	0	1	127	65	+62	3	19
3	Moldova (32)	5	2	0	3	87	84	+3	3	11
4	Netherlands (33)	5	2	0	3	113	123	−10	1	11
5	Poland (36)	5	2	0	3	88	116	−28	0	8
6	Sweden (49)	5	0	0	5	71	150	−79	1	1

Pre-tournament World Rugby rankings in parentheses (as at 1 September 2015)

Games

12 September 2015

Sweden	11–29	Poland

Enköping
Attendance: 325

29 September 2015

Sweden	20–48	Belgium
Try: Gowland 32' Darbyshire 47' Con: Erasmus (2) Pen: Erasmus (2)		Try: Lescarboura (2) 22', 40' Corradi 36' Vocea 44' Sensee 58' Penalty try (2) 55', 65' Con: Piron (5) Pen: Piron

Enköping
Attendance: 1 000
Referee: S. Gaffikin

10 October 2015

Ukraine	17–16	Belgium

Kyiv
Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania)

17 October 2015

Ukraine	30–14	Poland
Try: S. Tserkovniy (2) 22' c, 39' S. Sukhikh 75' M. Kirsanov 80' c Con: O. Kosariev (2) 11', 81' Pen: O. Kosariev (2) 11', 46'	[1]	Try: M. Bartoszek 43' c R. Szrejber 55' c Con: D. Banaszek (2) 44', 56'

Podilla, Khmelnytskyi
Attendance: 3,180
Referee: Vlad Iordăchescu (Romania)

7 November 2015

Sweden	7–25	Moldova
Try: Johansson 76' c Con: Johansson 76'	[2]	Try: Titica 6' c, 54' Prepelita 14', 37' Con: Golubenco 6' Pen: Golubenco 11'

Malmö
Attendance: 200
Referee: T. Tuma (Czech Republic)

14 November 2015

Poland	18–14	Moldova
Try: Sirocki 71' Wilczuk 74' c Con: Banaszek 75' Pen: Banaszek (2) 13', 52'	[3]	Try: Castravet 55' c Gajion 78' Con: Petrache 56'

Polonian Stadium, Warsaw
Attendance: 5500
Referee: Iñigo Atorrasagasti (Spain)

20 February 2016

Belgium	32–8	Netherlands
	[4]

Brussels
Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania)

12 March 2016

Moldova	9–10	Belgium
Pen: Golubenco (3) 23', 43', 73'	[5]	Try: Benoy 81' Con: Meeus 81' Pen: Meeus 25'

Chișinău
Attendance: 700
Referee: E. Rizzo (Italy)

19 March 2016

Poland	11–21	Belgium

Warsaw
Referee: Ian Tempest (England)

19 March 2016

Moldova	22–13	Netherlands

Chișinău
Referee: T. Tuma (Czech Republic)

30 April 2016

Netherlands	40–16	Poland
Try: Tom Altink 23' Dirk Danen 32' Rik Roovers 44' c Norbecio Mambo 64' Amir Rademaker 78' Alex Povel 82' c Con: Leon Koenen (2) 45', 83' Pen: Storm Carroll (2) 2', 14'	[6]	Try: Kamil Babryk 19' Aleksander Nowicki 70' Pen: Michał Kępac 11' Tomasz Gasik 29'

Amsterdam
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: F. Himmer (Germany)

30 April 2016

Ukraine	23–10	Sweden
Try: Viacheslav Ponomarenko 17' c Ivan Zalizniak 80' c Con: Oleg Kosariev (2) 8', 80' Pen: Oleg Kosariev (3) 40', 42', 48'	[7]	Try: Frederik Ensta 50' c Con: Philip Murphy 51' Pen: Jimmie Rissanen

National Tax University of Ukraine, Irpin
Attendance: 400
Referee: Paulo Duarte

7 May 2016

Netherlands	27–30	Ukraine

14 May 2016

Sweden	23–25	Netherlands

15 May 2016

Ukraine	36–17	Moldova

Odesa
Referee: Cedric Marchat (France)

Combined table (2014–2016)

Place	Nation	Games				Points			Bonus points	Table points
Place	Nation	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Diff	Bonus points	Table points
1	Belgium (30)	10	9	0	1	316	143	+173	5	41
2	Ukraine (32)	10	8	0	2	244	165	+79	4	36
3	Moldova (29)	10	5	0	5	245	167	+78	7	27
4	Netherlands (31)	10	4	0	6	194	197	−3	6	22
5	Poland (35)	10	4	0	6	191	262	−71	2	18
6	Sweden (44)	10	0	0	10	120	376	−256	1	1

Promotion to 2017 Rugby Europe Championship
Relegation to 2016–17 Rugby Europe Conference

Pre-tournament IRB rankings in parentheses (as at 1 September 2014)

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^ ENC 2016: DRV XV schafft nach Unentschieden gegen Spanien den EM-Klassenerhalt Archived 25 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine.
^ "ENC 1B 1st Leg". FIRA-AER. Archived from the original on 25 August 2011. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
^ Team Sheet
Poland outmuscle Sweden in European rugby cup

External links

FIRA-AER official website

[1] "ENC 2010–12 – DRAFT New format for the competition FIRA-AER" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 7 May 2010. Retrieved 1 June 2010.

[2] FIRA-AER – New bonus point system Archived 3 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine FIRA-AER website, published: 15 November 2010, accessed: 15 February 2011

[3] "2014–16 European Nations Cup – ENC 1A". Rugby Europe. Retrieved 8 September 2014.

[4] "Rugby: Georgia beats Russia in European Nations Cup match". agenda.ge. 14 March 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2015.

[5] "2014–16 European Nations Cup – ENC 1A". Rugby Europe. Retrieved 7 January 2016.

[6] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[7] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 February 2016. Retrieved 14 February 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[8] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 February 2016. Retrieved 14 February 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[9] ENC 2016: DRV XV macht großen Schritt in Richtung Klassenerhalt.

[10] ENC 2016: DRV XV schafft nach Unentschieden gegen Spanien den EM-Klassenerhalt Archived 25 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine.

[11] "ENC 1B 1st Leg". FIRA-AER. Archived from the original on 25 August 2011. Retrieved 3 October 2012.

[12] Team Sheet
Poland outmuscle Sweden in European rugby cup

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v t e European Nations Cup
In 2016, was reformed to Rugby Europe International Championships
First Division	2000 2000–01 2001–02 2003–04 2004–06 2006–08 2008–10 2010–12 2012–14 2014–16
Second Division	2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–04 2004–06 2006–08 2008–10 2010–12 2012–14 2014–16
Third Division	2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–04 2004–06 2006–08 2008–10 2010–12 2012–14 2014–16
Fourth Division	2000
FIRA–AER (Association of European Rugby), 1999–2014

Format

Division 1A

2015

Table

Games

2016

Table

Games

Combined table (2015–2016)

Division 1B

2014–15

Table

Games

2015–16

Table

Games

Combined table (2014–2016)

See also

References

External links