1997–1998 FIRA Tournament

1997–98 FIRA Tournament
Date	18 October 1997 – 2 June 1998
Tournament statistics
Champions	Not awarded
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The 1997–98 FIRA torunament, was a rugby union tournament organized by the Fédération Internationale de Rugby Amateur (FIRA). Only minnow teams participated, because the strongest 15 teams were playing the qualification for the Rugby World Cup.

The teams were divided into three pools.

Contents 1 Pool "Silver" 2 Pool "Bronze" 3 Pool "Bowl" 4 Bibliography 5 External links

Pool "Silver"

Place	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
		played	won	drawn	lost	for	against	diff.
1	Latvia	4	3	0	1	54	43	+11	10
2	Lithuania	4	3	0	1	51	88	−37	10
3	Switzerland	4	2	0	2	102	64	+38	8
4	Serbia and Montenegro	4	2	0	2	87	38	+49	7
5	Israel	4	0	0	4	9	70	−61	2

25 October 1997	Lithuania	25–23	Latvia	Vilnius

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8 November 1997	Switzerland	29–13	Serbia and Montenegro	Nyon

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28 March 1998	Israel	3–34	Switzerland	Netanya

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25 April 1998	Serbia and Montenegro	30–6	Israel	Beograd

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9 May 1998	Latvia	25–18	Switzerland	Riga

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10 May 1998	Switzerland	21–23	Lithuania	Basel

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20 May 1998	Serbia and Montenegro	44–0	Lithuania	Beograd

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30 May 1998	Latvia	3 – 0 withdraw	Israel

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2 June 1998	Latvia	3 – 0 withdraw	Serbia and Montenegro

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	Lithuania	3 – 0 withdraw	Israel

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Pool "Bronze"

Place	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
		played	won	drawn	lost	for	against	diff.
1	Luxembourg	3	3	0	0	79	23	+56	9
2	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3	2	0	1	49	43	+6	7
3	Monaco	3	1	0	2	49	56	−7	5
4	Bulgaria	3	0	0	3	27	82	−55	3

18 October 1997	Bulgaria	6–39	Luxembourg	Sofia

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15 November 1997	Monaco	22–16	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Montecarlo

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28 March 1998	Luxembourg	22–5	Bosnia and Herzegovina

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18 April 1998	Luxembourg	18–12	Monaco

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9 May 1998	Monaco	21–16	Bulgaria

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13 May 1998	Bosnia and Herzegovina	22–5	Bulgaria	Zenica

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Pool "Bowl"

Place	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
		played	won	drawn	lost	for	against	diff.
1	Austria	2	2	0	0	74	15	+59	6
2	Slovenia	2	1	0	1	41	50	−9	4
3	Hungary	2	0	0	2	12	62	−50	2

18 April 1998	Slovenia	38–0	Hungary	Sofia

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23 May 1998	Hungary	12–24	Austria	Montecarlo

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6 June 1998	Austria	50–3	Slovenia

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Bibliography

• (Italian) Francesco Volpe, Valerio Vecchiarelli (2000), 2000 Italia in Meta, Storia della nazionale italiana di rugby dagli albori al Sei Nazioni, GS Editore (2000) ISBN 88-87374-40-6.
• (Italian) Francesco Volpe, Paolo Pacitti (Author), Rugby 2000, GTE Gruppo Editorale (1999).

External links

• FIRA-AER official website

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