1994–1995 FIRA Preliminary Tournament

1994–95 FIRA Tournament
Date	16 October 1994 – 27 May 1995
Countries	Belgium  Czech Republic  Germany  Morocco  Netherlands  Portugal  Russia  Poland  Spain  Tunisia
Tournament statistics
Champions	France
Matches played	21
← 1992–1994 (Previous) (Next) 1995–1997 →

The 1995–97 (originally 1994–96) "FIRA Trophy" was arranged with a new format. In this season the schedules for Italy, France and Romania were modified to allow preparation for the 1995 Rugby World Cup, with a preliminary tournament held for Division 1 only. The second tier teams played a tournament to qualify the 7 teams to the 1995–96 edition Trophy.

Seven teams (the first three of each pool) and the winner of a Play off between the two fourth-placed teams were admitted to the first division for the 1995–97 tournament.

Contents 1 Pool A 2 Pool A 3 Play Off 4 Second division 4.1 Pool A 4.2 Pool B 4.3 Pool C 5 External links

Pool A

Place	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
		played	won	drawn	lost	for	against	diff.
1	Russia	4	4	0	0	106	52	+54	12
2	Poland	4	2	0	2	102	58	+44	8
3	Tunisia	4	2	0	2	59	65	−6	8
4	Belgium	4	1	0	3	44	92	−48	6
5	Netherlands	4	1	0	3	41	85	−44	6

Russia, Poland and Tunisia qualified for 1995–97 FIRA Trophy . Belgium entered Play-off.

15 October 1994	Belgium	13–50	Poland	Siedelce

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22 October 1994		29–6	Netherlands	Moscow

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12 November 1994	Belgium	10–0	Netherlands	Brussels

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20 November 1994	Poland	9–15	Tunisia	-

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22 March 1995	Belgium	6–10	Tunisia	Brussels

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26 March 1995	Netherlands	23–18	Tunisia	Amsterdam

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1 April 1995	Russia	27–16	Tunisia

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23 April 1995	Netherlands	12–28	Poland	Amsterdam

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6 May 1995	Russia	32–15	Belgium	Moscow

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13 May 1995	Poland	15–18	Russia

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Pool A

Place	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
		played	won	drawn	lost	for	against	diff.
1	Spain	4	4	0	0	213	36	+177	12
2	Portugal	4	3	0	1	86	100	−14	10
3	Morocco	4	2	0	2	58	89	−31	8
4	Czech Republic	4	1	0	3	51	132	−81	6
5	Germany	4	0	0	4	37	88	−51	4

Spain, Portugal and Marocco qualified for 1995–97 FIRA Trophy . Czech Republic entered Play-off.

23 October 1994	Czech Republic	12–5	Germany	Ricany

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13 November 1994	Germany	10–29	Spain	Hanover

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19 March 1995	Portugal	26–16	Morocco	Lisbon

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26 March 1995	Spain	44–3	Morocco	Sevilla

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2 April 1995	Spain	90–8	Czech Republic	Madrid

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9 April 1995	Morocco	18–13	Czech Republic	Casablanca

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22 April 1995	Portugal	15–50	Spain	Lisbon

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29 April 1995	Czech Republic	18–19	Portugal	Prague

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14 May 1995	Germany	16–26	Portugal	Heidelberg

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6 May 1995	Morocco	21–6	Germany	Oujda

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Play Off

27 May 1995	Belgium	32–13	Czech Republic	Brussels

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Belgium qualified for 1995–97 FIRA Trophy

Second division

Three Pools were played.

Pool A

Place	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
		played	won	drawn	lost	for	against	diff.
1	Latvia	3	2	0	1	67	53	+14	7
2	Denmark	2	2	0	0	39	25	+14	6
3	Ukraine	3	1	0	2	53	32	+21	5
4	Lithuania	2	0	0	2	10	59	−49	2

• Lithuania-Denmark not played

9 October 1994	Latvia	28–10	Lithuania	Riga

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5 November 1994	Denmark	27–19	Latvia	Copenhagen

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27 November 1994	Denmark	12–6	Ukraine	Aalborg

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4 June 1995	Latvia	20–16	Ukraine	Riga

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1995	Ukraine	31–0	Lithuania	Vilnius

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Pool B

• Semifinals

23 March 1995	Bulgaria	8–70	Georgia	Sofia

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23 March 1995	Moldova	17–14	Hungary	Sofia

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• 3–4 place final

25 March 1995	Bulgaria	8–0	Hungary	Sofia

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• Final

25 March 1995	Georgia	47–5	Moldova	Sofia

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Pool C

Place	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
		played	won	drawn	lost	for	against	diff.
1	Luxembourg	4	2	1	1	61	57	+4	9
2	Andorra	4	2	1	1	52	57	−5	9
3	Croatia	4	2	0	2	56	48	+8	8
4	Slovenia	4	2	0	2	67	81	−14	8
5	Switzerland	4	1	0	3	41	34	+7	5

15 October 1994	Luxembourg	22–3	Slovenia	Luxembourg

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30 October 1994	Croatia	11–3	Switzerland	Makarska

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2 November 1994	Slovenia	17–14	Switzerland	Ljubliana

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26 November 1994	Andorra	28–23	Slovenia	Andorra

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3 December 1994	Croatia	12–21	Luxembourg	Split

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8 April 1995	Slovenia	24–17	Croatia	Ljubliana

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22 April 1995	Andorra	0–16	Croatia	Andorra

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30 April 1995	Luxembourg	0–24	Switzerland	Luxembourg

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7 May 1995	Andorra	6 – 0 withdraw	Switzerland

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13 May 1995	Luxembourg	18–18	Andorra	Luxembourg

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• FIRA-AER official website

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