The 1979–1980 FIRA Trophy was the 20th edition of a European 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...

 championship for national teams.

The tournament was won by France

First division

• Table

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  Place	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
  		played	won	drawn	lost	for	against	difference
  1		5	5	0	0	169	32
  15
  2		5	3	0	2	142	86	+56	11
  3		5	3	0	2	87	54	+33	11
  4		5	3	0	2	80	81	-1	11
  5		5	1	0	4	56	171	-115	7
  6		5	0	0	5	37	147	-110	5

Morocco relegated to division 2

• Results

  Point system: try 4 pt, conversion: 2 pt., penalty kick 3 pt. drop 3 pt Click "show" for more info about match (scorers, line-up etc)

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Second division

• Table

Place	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
		played	won	drawn	lost	for	against	difference
1		4	4	0	0	101	33	+68	12
2		4	2	1	1	33	41	-8	9
3		4	2	0	2	37	44	-7	8
4		4	1	1	2	26	39	-13	7
5		4	0	0	4	35	75
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Spain Promopted to division 1

Sweden relgated to division 3

• Results

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Third Division

• Table

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  Place	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
  		played	won	drawn	lost	for	against	difference
  1		2	2	0	0	30	20
  6
  2		2	1	0	1	59	19
  4
  3		2	0	0	2	21	71	-50	2

• Results

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Tunisia promoted to division 2

External links

• FIRA-AER official website