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2008 European Sevens Championship
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| logo | Hannover Sevens 2008.jpg |
| datefrom | July 12 |
| dateto | July 13 |
| host | GER |
| nations | 12 |
| champion | |
| runnerup | |
| matches | 42 |
| top_scorer | POR Pedro Leal |
| prev | 2007 |
| next | 2009 |
The 2008 European Sevens Championship was a rugby sevens competition, with the final held in Hanover, Germany. It was the seventh edition of the European Sevens championship and also functioned as a qualifying tournament for the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens. The event was organised by rugby's European governing body, the FIRA – Association of European Rugby (FIRA-AER).
Outcome
Main article: 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens
The finals tournament held in Hanover, Germany on 12 and 13 July 2008, as well as being the European Sevens Championship, functioned as a qualifying tournament for the world cup. England, France and Scotland had already qualified through their past performance. The five best nations out of the twelve participating ones qualified for the Dubai tournament. Teams finished in the following order:
| 12th |
|---|
Bid
On 16 June 2007, the FIRA congress in Monaco decided to award the finals tournament to Hanover, beating bids from Russia, Greece and Bosnia-Herzegovina in the process.
Tournament history
From 2002, FIRA, the governing body of European rugby, has been organising an annual European Sevens Championship tournament. A number of qualifying tournaments lead up to a finals tournament, which functions as the European championship and, in 2008, also as the qualifying stage for the Sevens World Cup.
The first European Championship was held in 2002 in Heidelberg, Germany, and was won by Portugal, the team that won every championship since except 2007, when Russia won.
The next year, the tournament was again held in Heidelberg and in 2004, Palma de Mallorca, Spain was the host.
From 2005 to 2007, Moscow was the host of the tournament.
Hanover held the tournament for the first time in 2008 and will do so again in 2009.
Tournament
Stadium
The finals tournament was held at the AWD-Arena in Hanover, home ground of the football club Hannover 96. The stadium holds 50.000 spectators, 43,000 of them on seats, the rest standing.
The tournament was seen by over 30,000 spectators, a good turn out in a country like Germany, where rugby is not a mainstream sport. After selling more than 35,000 tickets in advance, mostly within Germany, the organisers were forced to open up the upper tier of the stadium to meet demand.
Qualifying
Twelve teams qualified through the seven qualifying tournaments, held at the following locations:
| Moscow | Russia | 28–29 June |
|---|
Source:{{Cite web | access-date =2009-01-25
Group stage
The tournament was divided into a group and a finals stage. In the group stage, two groups of six teams were drawn. Within each group, each team played each other once. The top two teams went to the Cup stage of the tournament while the third and fourth placed team qualified for the Plate stage. Five and six went to the Bowl finals.
| Qualified for the Bowl stage |
|---|
Group A
| POR | GEO | ESP | GER | RUS | ROM | Portugal | – | Georgia | – | – | Spain | – | – | – | Germany | – | – | – | – | Russia | – | – | – | – | – | Romania | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26–10 | 28–5 | 14–12 | 45–5 | 38–0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 28–5 | 26–0 | 5–0 | 12–0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 26–22 | 7–29 | 14–0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17–12 | 24–21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 19–19 |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | +/- | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 151 | 32 | +119 | 15 | |
| 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 81 | 31 | +50 | 13 | |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 57 | 107 | -50 | 9 | |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 75 | 99 | -24 | 9 | |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 74 | 100 | -26 | 8 | |
| 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 31 | 100 | -69 | 6 |
Group B
| WAL | IRE | ITA | UKR | POL | Bel | Wales | – | Ireland | – | – | Italy | – | – | – | Ukraine | – | – | – | – | Poland | – | – | – | – | – | Belgium | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26–14 | 33–12 | 21–17 | 38–7 | 33–12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17–12 | 26–7 | 17–7 | 31–0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 31–15 | 40–0 | 17–10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21–14 | 22–12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21–19 |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | +/- | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 151 | 64 | +87 | 15 | |
| 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 105 | 52 | +53 | 13 | |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 114 | 75 | +39 | 11 | |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 84 | 104 | -20 | 9 | |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 49 | 135 | -86 | 7 | |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 53 | 124 | -71 | 5 |
Finals
Three separate rounds of finals were held, Bowl, the lowest, Plate and Cup. The semi final winners of each group went on to the final while the losers played each other. All teams from the Cup stage were qualified for the next sevens world cup and also the Plate winner.
Bowl
Winner: Russia | ||27||0 | ||7||21 | ||29||12 | ||0||26
Plate
Winner: Italy (qualified for the 2009 Sevens world cup) | ||22||10 | ||21||19 | ||17||24 | ||14||35
Cup
Winner: Portugal (all four teams qualified for the 2009 Sevens world cup) | ||14||12 | ||19||14 | ||26||12 | ||7||26
Top point scorers
| Points | Name | Team | Tries | Con | Pen | Drop |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedro Leal | 6 | 22 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Merab Kvirikashvili | 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Martin Roberts | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Ian Keatley | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Mustafa Güngör | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Oleh Kvasnytsya | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Andrew Maxwell | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Alexander Gvozdovskiy | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Juan Cano | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| César Sempere | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Matthieu Franke | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Key: Con = conversions; Pen = penalties; Drop = drop goals
Teams
Belgium
Head coach: Neil Massinon
Manager: Thierry Massinon
| Jerôme Bize | FRA Tours |
|---|
Source:{{Cite web | access-date = 2009-01-26 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080809151855/http://www.hannover-sevens.de/index.php?mnu=1318 | archive-date = 2008-08-09 | url-status = dead
Georgia
Head coach: Kakhaber Alania
| Irakli Gundishvili | FRA Périgueux |
|---|
Source:{{Cite web | access-date =2009-01-26
Germany
Head coach: NZ Lofty Stevenson
| Benjamin Krause | GER DSV 78/08 Ricklingen |
|---|
Source:{{Cite web | access-date = 2009-01-26
Ireland
Head coach: Jon Skurr
| Brian Tuohy | ENG Cornish Pirates |
|---|
Source:{{Cite web | access-date =2009-01-26
Italy
Head coach:
| Benjamin Tomaghelli | ITA US Rugby Brescia |
|---|
Source:{{Cite web | access-date =2009-01-26
Poland
Head coach:
| Donald Gargasson | FRA ASM Clermont Auvergne |
|---|
Source:{{Cite web | access-date =2009-01-26
Portugal
Head coach: POR Tomaz Morais
| Antonio Aguilar |
|---|
Source:{{Cite web | access-date =2009-01-26
Romania
Head coach:
| Razvan Suteu | ROM Grivita Bucuresti |
|---|
Source:{{Cite web | access-date =2009-01-26
Russia
Head coach: FRA Claude Saurel
| Sergey Gavryushin | "VVA-Podmoskovje" Moscow region |
|---|
Source:{{Cite web | access-date =2009-01-26
Spain
Head coach: José Ignacio Inchausti
| Cesar Sempere | ESP CRC Madrid Noroeste |
|---|
Source:{{Cite web | access-date =2009-01-26
Ukraine
Head coach: Michel Bishop
| Bogdan Zhulavskyi | UKR Kredo-63 Odesa |
|---|
Source:{{Cite web | access-date =2009-01-26
Wales
Head coach: WAL Gareth Baber
| Richie Pugh | WAL Cardiff RFC |
|---|
Source:{{Cite web | access-date =2009-01-26
References
References
- [http://www.therugbyworldcup.co.uk/blog/portugal-take-hannover-7s-title_506 Portugal take Hannover 7's Title]{{Dead link. (September 2018)
- link. (2009-02-20 {{in lang). de Hanover Sevens website, accessed: 25 January 2009
- [http://rugbyturniere.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/and-now-for-something-completely-different-enc-7s-2008-in-hannover/ And now for something completely different: ENC 7's 2008 in Hannover] accessed: 26 January 2009
- [http://www.hannover-sevens.de/index.php?mnu=1049 The 7s European Championship] Hanover Sevens website – History of the tournament, accessed: 25 January 2009
- [http://www.hannover-sevens.de/index.php?mnu=998 AWD-Arena – facts] Hanover Sevens website – stadium information, accessed: 25 January 2009
- [http://www.ur7s.com/tournaments/hannover_sevens Ultimate Sevens website] {{Webarchive. link. (2009-01-26 Article on the Hanover Sevens, accessed: 26 January 2009)
- [https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-union/germans-go-sevenscrazy-864587.html Germans go sevens-crazy] {{Webarchive. link. (2012-10-25 [[The Independent]], accessed: 26 January 2009)
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