The Europe Cup 1952 was the fourth Rugby Union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 European championship, organized by FIRA.

After the Second World War rugby acticity restarted in Europe with the Five Nations

Five Nations

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 restarting in 1947. The FIRA approved to reorganized the European Championship, after three tournaments in 1936-38. During the assembly of May 20, 1951 it was decided that the name of tournament would be Europe Cup, and that the first edition was to be played in 1952.

A "challenge" format was chosen: France, winner of the last tournament in 1938

1938 FIRA Tournament

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, advanced directly to the final, where it met the winner of the preliminary tournament, played by four teams: Belgium, West Germany, Italy and Romania.

Results

Point system: try 3 pt, conversion: 2 pt., penalty kick 3 pt. drop 3 pt, goal from mark 3 pt. Click "show" for more info about match (scorers, line-up etc)

Preliminary tournament

• Semifinals

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• Finals

Great Final

External links

• FIRA-AER official website