2022 Rugby Europe Super Cup

2022 Rugby Europe Super Cup
2022 Rugby Europe Super Cup
Tournament details
Countries	Belgium; Georgia; Israel; Netherlands; Portugal; Romania; Spain
Date	10 September - 17 December 2022
Tournament statistics
Teams	8
Matches played	27
Attendance	16,275 (603 per match)
Highest attendance	1,900
Lowest attendance	200
Tries scored	169 (6.26 per match)
Final
Champions	Black Lion (2nd title)
Runners-up	Tel Aviv Heat
	← 2021–22 (Previous) (Next) 2023 →

The 2022 Rugby Europe Super Cup was the second edition of the Rugby Europe Super Cup, an annual rugby union competition for professional franchises outside the three 'big leagues' of European Rugby. The competition featured two new teams, the Romanian Wolves and RC Batumi from Georgia.

Format

Each participant played home and away-fixtures in six rounds of action, to be played between September and December. At the end of the pool stage, the top two teams from each conference qualified for the semi-finals, with the conference winners hosting the ties.

Teams

Nation	Stadium			Head coach	Captain
Nation	Home stadium	Capacity	Location	Head coach	Captain
Batumi RC	Batumi Rugby Arena	1,500	Batumi	Irakli Ninidze	Giorgi Tkhilaishvili
Black Lion	Aia Arena Avchala Stadium	5,000 2,500	Kutaisi Tbilisi	Levan Maisashvili	Merab Sharikadze
Brussels Devils	Nelson Mandela Stadium	750	Brussels	Thibaut André	Viktor Pazgrat
Castilla y León Iberians	Estadio Pepe Rojo	5,000	Valladolid	Miguel Velasco	Silvio Castiglioni
Delta	RC Eemland Stadium	500	Amsterdam	Allard Jonkers	Hugo Langelaan
Lusitanos	CAR Jamor	2,500	Lisbon	Patrice Lagisquet	João Belo
Romanian Wolves^[1]	Stadionul Arcul de Triumf	8,207	Bucharest	Sosene Anesi	Ovidiu Cojocaru
Tel Aviv Heat	Shlomo Bituach Stadium	11,500	Petah Tikva	Kevin Musikanth	Jordan Chait

Location of teams of the 2022–23 Rugby Europe Super Cup.

Group stage

Eastern Conference

Advances to semi-finals

Pos.	Team	Games				Points			Tries			TBP	LBP	Table points
Pos.	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Diff	For	Against	Diff	TBP	LBP	Table points
1	Black Lion	6	4	1	1	201	79	+122	30	7	+23	4	1	23
2	Tel Aviv Heat	6	4	1	1	165	95	+70	21	12	+9	1	0	19
3	Batumi RC	6	2	0	4	68	142	-74	9	17	-8	1	0	9
4	Romanian Wolves	6	1	0	5	92	210	-118	9	30	-21	0	1	5
Points were awarded to the teams as follows: Win – 4 points \| Draw – 2 points \| At least 3 more tries than opponent – 1 point \| Loss within 7 points – 1 point

Round 1

10 September 2022
19:00 EEST (UTC+02:00)

(1 LBP) Romanian Wolves	20 – 25	Tel Aviv Heat
	Report

Stadionul Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest
Attendance: 1000
Referee:

Giga Mshvenieradze

11 September 2022
16:30 GET (UTC+04)

Batumi RC	3 – 29	Black Lion (1 TBP)
	Report

Batumi Rugby Arena, Batumi
Attendance: 1,800
Referee:

Adrien Marbot

Round 2

17 September 2022
16:00 EEST (UTC+03)

Romanian Wolves	37 – 15	Batumi RC
	Report

Stadionul Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest
Attendance: 1,000
Referee:

Paulo Duarte

18 September 2022
16:30 GET (UTC+04)

Black Lion	25 – 25	Tel Aviv Heat
	Report

Aia Arena, Kutaisi
Attendance: 800
Referee:

Filippo Russo

Round 3

24 September 2022
15:00 GET (UTC+04)

Batumi RC	19 – 11	Tel Aviv Heat
	Report

Batumi Rugby Arena, Batumi
Attendance: 250
Referee:

Alexandru Ionescu

25 September 2022
16:00 GET (UTC+04)

(1 TBP) Black Lion	43 – 21	Romanian Wolves
	Report

Aia Arena, Kutaisi
Attendance: 850
Referee:

Andrew Cole

Round 4

15 October 2022
14:30 GET (UTC+04)

(1 TBP) Batumi RC	23 – 3	Romanian Wolves
	Report

Batumi Rugby Arena, Batumi
Attendance: 500
Referee:

Iñigo Atorrasagasti

16 October 2022
14:00 IDT (UTC+03)

Tel Aviv Heat	24 – 18	Black Lion (1 LBP)
	Report

Shlomo Bituach Stadium, Petah Tikva
Attendance: 400
Referee:

Paulo Duarte

Round 5

22 October 2022
11:30 IDT (UTC+03)

Tel Aviv Heat	25 – 8	Batumi RC
	Report

Shlomo Bituach Stadium, Petah Tikva
Attendance: 400
Referee:

Cristian Șerban

23 October 2022
18:00 EEST (UTC+03:00)

Romanian Wolves	6 – 49	Black Lion (1 TBP)
	Report

Stadionul Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest
Attendance: 500
Referee:

Federico Vedovelli

Round 6

29 October 2022
16:00 GET (UTC+04)

Black Lion	37 – 0	Batumi RC
	Report

Avchala Stadium, Tbilisi
Attendance: 550
Referee:

Andrew Cole

30 October 2022
TBC IST (UTC+02)

(1 TBP) Tel Aviv Heat	55 – 5	Romanian Wolves
	Report

Shlomo Bituach Stadium, Petah Tikva
Attendance: 500
Referee:

Gert Visser

Western Conference

Advances to semi-finals

Pos.	Team	Games				Points			Tries			TBP	LBP	Table points
Pos.	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Diff	For	Against	Diff	TBP	LBP	Table points
1	Lusitanos	6	5	0	1	297	66	+231	38	8	+30	3	1	24
2	Castilla y León Iberians	6	5	0	1	189	71	+118	28	9	+19	3	1	24
3	Brussels Devils	6	1	0	5	75	322	-247	10	42	-32	1	1	6
4	Delta	6	1	0	5	95	197	-102	8	22	-14	0	1	5
Points were awarded to the teams as follows: Win – 4 points \| Draw – 2 points \| At least 3 more tries than opponent – 1 point \| Loss within 7 points – 1 point \| Completing a Grand Slam – 1 point

Round 1

10 September 2022
15:00 CEST (UTC+02)

Brussels Devils	3 – 61	Castilla y León Iberians (1 TBP)
	Report

Nelson Mandela Stadium, Brussels
Attendance: 250
Referee:

Kilian O'Brien

11 September 2022
12:30 CEST (UTC+02)

(1 LBP) Delta	19 – 26	Lusitanos
	Report

RC Eemland, Amersfoort
Attendance: 300
Referee:

Cristian Șerban

Round 2

17 September 2022
17:00 WEST (UTC+01)

(1 TBP) Lusitanos	95 – 0	Brussels Devils
	Report

Estádio Nacional, Lisbon
Attendance: 200
Referee:

Iñigo Atorrasagasti

18 September 2022
12:00 CEST (UTC+02)

Castilla y León Iberians	22 – 7	Delta
	Report

Estadio Pepe Rojo, Valladolid
Attendance: 800
Referee:

John Catteau

Round 3

24 September 2022
15:30 CEST (UTC+02)

Delta	21 – 14	Brussels Devils (1 LBP)
	Report

RC Eemland, Amersfoort
Attendance: 175
Referee:

Ethan Glass

24 September 2022
18:00 CEST (UTC+02)

(1 LBP) Castilla y León Iberians	20 – 22	Lusitanos
	Report

Estadio Pepe Rojo, Valladolid
Attendance: 500
Referee:

Saba Abulashvili

Round 4

15 October 2022
16:30 WEST (UTC+01)

(1 LBP) Lusitanos	12 – 17	Castilla y León Iberians
	Report

Estádio Nacional, Lisbon
Attendance: 200
Referee:

Shota Tevzadze

15 October 2022
20:00 CEST (UTC+02)

(1 TBP) Brussels Devils	48 – 21	Delta
	Report

Nelson Mandela Stadium, Brussels
Attendance: 600
Referee:

Saba Abulashvili

Round 5

22 October 2022
13:00 CEST (UTC+02)

Delta	17 – 40	Castilla y León Iberians (1 TBP)
	Report

RC Eemland, Amersfoort
Attendance: 300
Referee:

Alexandru Ionescu

22 October 2022
15:30 CEST (UTC+02)

Brussels Devils	0 – 95	Lusitanos (1 TBP)
	Report

Nelson Mandela Stadium, Brussels
Attendance: 600
Referee:

Keane Davison

Round 6

28 October 2022
20:00 WEST (UTC+01)

(1 TBP) Lusitanos	47 – 10	Delta
	Report

Estádio Nacional, Lisbon
Attendance: 200
Referee:

Alex Frasson

30 October 2022
12:20 CET (UTC+01)

(1 TBP) Castilla y León Iberians	29 – 10	Brussels Devils
	Report

Estadio Pepe Rojo, Valladolid
Attendance: 900
Referee:

Michael Todd

Play-Offs

Semi-finals		Final

4 December – Tbilisi

The Black Lion	41
		17 December – Tbilisi
Castilla y León Iberians	9
		The Black Lion	29
4 December – Lisbon
		Tel Aviv Heat	17
Lusitanos XV	22

Tel Aviv Heat	30

Semi-finals

4 December 2022
16:00 GET (UTC+04)

Black Lion	41 – 9	Castilla y León Iberians
	Report

Avchala Stadium, Tbilisi
Attendance: 600
Referee:

Federico Vedovelli

4 December 2022
15:00 WET (UTC+00)

Lusitanos	22 – 30	Tel Aviv Heat
	Report

Estádio Nacional, Lisbon
Attendance: 200
Referee:

Shota Tevzadze

Final

17 December 2022
16:00 GET (UTC+04)

Black Lion	29 – 17	Tel Aviv Heat
	Report

Avchala Stadium, Tbilisi
Attendance: 1,900
Referee:

Paulo Duarte

References

^ "The Romanian Wolves will join the Rugby Europe Super Cup for the 2022/23 season, with the second edition starting in September". Retrieved 25 May 2022.

[1] "The Romanian Wolves will join the Rugby Europe Super Cup for the 2022/23 season, with the second edition starting in September". Retrieved 25 May 2022.

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