Rugby Europe Championship

Season Description
The 2026 Rugby Europe Championship is the ongoing tenth Rugby Europe Championship, the annual rugby union competition for the top European national teams outside the Six Nations Championship, and the 55th 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 are taking part in the 2026 championship; Belgium, Georgia, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Switzerland.

Georgia entered the tournament as defending champions. They won the final against Spain in the 2025 tournament, claiming their 17th title. The serpentine system was applied to allocate each team to their respective groups. Each team play 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.

All matches on the final day will be staged in Spain. The fifth and seventh place playoffs will be hosted at Estadio Nacional Complutense in Madrid, with the third place playoff and final hosted at the Butarque Stadium in Leganés.

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