2012 Women's European Championship

2012 Women's European Championship
Tournament details
Host nation  Italy
Final positions
Champions  England
Runner-up  France
Tournament statistics
Matches played 6

The 2012 Women's European Championship or "European Cup" was the 17th annual rugby tournament organised by FIRA for the continent's national teams and the ninth official continental championship. Only eight teams took part - the lowest entry since 1996 and also the first time since 1996 that Scotland, Wales and Ireland did not take part. The leading four teams played in Group A in Rovereto, Italy between 13 and 19 May, and the other four played at Enköping between 3 and 7 May. The latter tournament also started Europe's Women's Rugby World Cup qualification process, with both finalists qualifying for the continent's qualification tournament in 2013.

Most of the absences were due to Unions prioritising sevens rugby, in advance of the 2013 Sevens World Cup. Even the teams attending the Group A tournament were weakened by clashes with the London, Amsterdam and Rome Sevens tournaments. England were least affected as their players only missed the first round of games, but several French players from the Six Nations did not play in this tournament, while most of the Spanish team from 2011 Women's European Trophy were selected for the Amsterdam Sevens in preference to Rovereto.

Group A

Position Nation Games Match points Bonus points Table
points
Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Tries (4+) Losing (<=7)
1  England 3 3 0 0 122 33 3 0 15
2  France 3 2 0 1 107 51 2 1 11
3  Italy 3 1 0 2 81 57 1 1 6
4  Spain 3 0 0 3 6 175 0 0 0
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2012-05-13 England  61-0 [1]  Spain Rovereto, Italy [187/98/14]
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2012-05-13 Italy  19-22 [2]  France Rovereto, Italy [97/163/14]
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2012-05-16 Italy  8-32[3]  England Rovereto, Italy [98/188/11]
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2012-05-16 France  60-3[4]  Spain Rovereto, Italy [164/99/18]
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2012-05-19 England  29-25 [5]  France Rovereto, Italy [189/165/30]
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2012-05-19 Italy  54-3 [6]  Spain Rovereto, Italy [99/100/9]

Group B

Semi finals

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2012-05-03 Netherlands  105-0[7]  Finland Enkoping, Sweden [105/11/1]
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2012-05-03 Sweden  67-0[8]  Russia Enkoping, Sweden [73/38/4]

Third-place

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2012-05-07 Finland  17-45[9]  Russia Enkoping, Sweden [12/39/3]

Final

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2012-05-07 Sweden  10-3[10]  Netherlands Enkoping, Sweden [74/106/17]

See also

Notes

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External links

Preceded by
2011 FIRA Women's European Trophy		 FIRA Women's European Championship
2012
 		Succeeded by
2013 Women's European Qualification Tournament
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