Rugby Europe Championship

Season Description
The 2025 Rugby Europe Championship, which doubled as the qualifying process for the 2027 Men's Rugby World Cup and World Rugby Nations Championship's second division for Europe, was the most recent, ninth Rugby Europe Championship, the annual rugby union competition for the top European national teams outside the Six Nations Championship, and the 54th edition of the competition (including all its previous incarnations as the FIRA Tournament, Rugby Union European Cup, FIRA Nations Cup, FIRA Trophy, and European Nations Cup).

Eight teams took part in the 2024 championship. The championship was contested by Belgium, Georgia, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Poland. Georgia won the previous championship after defeating Portugal in the final, claiming their 16th title. Poland were relegated. After winning the 2023–24 Rugby Europe Trophy, Switzerland were promoted to the Championship for the 2025 season. This was the first time in their history that they are in the top division.

The serpentine system was applied to allocate each team to their respective groups. Each team plays a total of five games (three round robin group matches to determine the team's path and two play-off matches). Seeding (for a group) and relegation are calculated over a two-year cycle, as is the promotion from the Trophy competition.

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