Australian Under 20 Rugby Championship

Australian Under 20 Rugby Championship
Sport Rugby union
Inaugural season 2014
Country Australia
Holders

New South Wales

(2014)

The Australian Under 20 Rugby Championship is an annual rugby union competition hosted by the Australian Rugby Union for men's junior teams with an under-20 age requirement.[1][2] It is contested by teams from Australian states and territories as well as invited national representative sides.[3][4]

Format

The competition for the Australian U20 Championships is played over two stages in February and March each year. The Southern States U20 Championship is held first, and a representative team from that tournament is selected to participate in the National U20 Championship top division.[5]

The inaugural event in 2014 featured ten teams. The Western Australia U20s won the Southern States tournament,[6] and the National Championship was won by the New South Wales Under 20s.[2]

Teams

The teams playing in the National Under 20 Championship for 2015 are:

The teams playing in the Southern States Championship are:

Champions

National U20 Championship

Year Winner Tournament location Refs
2015 New South Wales New South Wales Viking Park, ACT [7]
2014 New South Wales New South Wales Viking Park, ACT [2]

Southern States U20 Championship

Year Winner Tournament location Refs
2015 Western Australia Western Australia Adelaide Airport Oval, SA [8]
2014 Western Australia Western Australia Adelaide Airport Oval, SA [9]

Southern States tournament

Two groups are formed for the Southern States Under 20 Championship, with a round robin played within each group and an additional match per team against an opponent in the other group.

Group A:  
Group B:  

Following the tournament, an Australian Barbarians U20 team is selected from the best players. The Barbarians team goes on to compete in the National U20 top division, held the following month.

National tournament

Two groups are formed for the National Under 20 Championship. The core Australian teams play against each other once and have an additional match against one of the invited international teams:

Core teams:  
Invited teams:  

Following the tournament, the Australian U20s team is selected from the best players. The Australian team competes in the Oceania U20 and World Rugby U20 championships.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The Australian Barbarians side is selected from the best players in teams competing for the Southern States Championship.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Fiji and Tonga national under 20 sides are invited teams participating in the tournament.

References

  1. ↑ Grant, Lee (15 January 2014). "New Aussie Competitions—Part II: National Under 20 Competition". Green and Gold Rugby. Archived from the original on 28 February 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "NSW Win 2014 National U20 Championship". Australian Rugby. 27 March 2014. Archived from the original on 28 February 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  3. ↑ Dutton, Chris (9 November 2013). "Staniforth heads young guns list". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax. Archived from the original on 24 November 2013. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  4. ↑ Findlay, Matt (19 February 2015). "Country colts (then maybe Australia call-ups) for Orange rugby trio". Central Western Daily. Archived from the original on 28 February 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  5. ↑ Gardiner, James (28 January 2014). "Country calls on Hunter talents". Newcastle Herald. Archived from the original on 28 February 2015.
  6. ↑ Taylor, Nick (3 November 2014). "WA rugby thriving: Force chief". The West Australian. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "NSW wins National Under 20s Championship for second consecutive year". Australian Rugby. 25 March 2015. Archived from the original on 25 March 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "Western Australia claim back to back Southern States Under 20s title". Australian Rugby. 26 February 2015. Archived from the original on 28 February 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  9. ↑ "South Australian Under 20’s exceed expectations in Southern States Championship". SA Rugby. 16 February 2014. Archived from the original on 28 February 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.

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