2008-2010 European Nations Cup Second Division

The European Nations Cup
European Nations Cup (rugby union)
The European Nations Cup is the European Championship for tier 2 and tier 3 rugby union nations. The Championship is split into 7 divisions with 5 or 6 teams in each. The divisions play on a two-year cycle with the teams playing each other both home and away...

Second division 2008-2010 is the second tier of the European Championship for developing 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...

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It is made up of two divisions with 5 teams in each division. Due to changes in the structure of the European Nations Cup for the 2010-2012 competition, no team will be relegated from Division 2A or 2B. The winner of Division 2A gets promoted to Division One and the winner of Division 2B will get promoted to Division 2A.

The leader of Division 2B at the end of the 2008-2009 season, and the champion of Division 2A at the end of the competition, will have the opportunity to participate in qualification

2011 Rugby World Cup - Europe qualification

In the European Regional Rugby World Cup Qualifying, two teams, Georgia and Russia, qualified directly to the world cup and Romania, the third place team, entered a playoff against the second place African team, Tunisia....

for the 2011 Rugby World Cup

2011 Rugby World Cup

The 2011 Rugby World Cup was the seventh Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. The International Rugby Board selected New Zealand as the host country in preference to Japan and South Africa at a meeting in Dublin on 17 November 2005...

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The former champions of Division 2A were Germany who have been replaced by the relegated Czech Republic. Poland won Division 2B and were promoted to Division 2A in place of the Netherlands. Sweden was promoted from Division 3A to replace the relegated Andorra.

Division 2A

The tuurnament was won by Ukraine, taht obtained the promotion to the higheset lever of ENC, and qualification to Rugby World Cup Qaulification.

Promoted to Division 1 for 2010-2012 and qualified for 2011 RWC Qualifying 2011 Rugby World Cup qualifying 2011 Rugby World Cup qualifying began at the 2007 tournament in France, where twelve teams earned a place in the finals of the tournament, this automatically qualified them for the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.After much speculation, it was confirmed on 30 November 2007 that 20 teams would...

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The match between Poland and Moldova was originally scheduled for April 10, 2010, but was postponed after the death of Poland's president
2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash
The 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash occurred on 10 April 2010, when a Tupolev Tu-154M aircraft of the Polish Air Force crashed near the city of Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board...

, Lech Kaczyński
Lech Kaczynski
Lech Aleksander Kaczyński was Polish lawyer and politician who served as the President of Poland from 2005 until 2010 and as Mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 22 December 2005. Before he became a president, he was also a member of the party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość...

, earlier that day., Then was definitely cancelled.

Division 2B

Promoted to 1B (ex 2A) for 2010-2012. Qualified for 2011 RWC Qualifying 2011 Rugby World Cup qualifying 2011 Rugby World Cup qualifying began at the 2007 tournament in France, where twelve teams earned a place in the finals of the tournament, this automatically qualified them for the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.After much speculation, it was confirmed on 30 November 2007 that 20 teams would...

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Place	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
Place	Nation	played	won	drawn	lost	for	against	difference	Table points
1	(34)	8	7	0	1	219	90
22
2	(41)	8	6	0	2	161	114
20
3	(54)	8	4	0	4	132	156
16
4	(51)	8	2	0	6	147	162
12
5	(61)	8	1	0	7	100	234
10

Division 2A

Division 2B

See also