FIRA-AER created new disciplinary for European Championship in 7s Rugby. According to it national teams of Elite Rugby countries and so called “second level” will play together.
According to new structure European Championship will be held in three stages. Those are the following: Grand Prix, the second division and the third division.
12 national teams will participate in Grand –Prix. There will be 4 rounds, points will e counted as before at world series’ tournaments. All the reps of “Six Nations” are expected to take part in this competition, but if any of them refuses a leader of the second division will replace it.
There are 12 teams in the second division also, they will compete in three rounds in May-Jule and the third division will be staffed according to the leading divisions.
Dates, places and participants of World Championship will be found out later. The preliminary dates of Grand-Prix is already known:
The 1st stage – June 18-19
The 2nd stage– June 25-26 (Supposedly in Moscow)
The3rd stage – July 9-10
The 4th stage– July 16-17
Grand-Prix participants
England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Georgia, Romania, Ukraine.
The 2nd division participants
Moldova, Holland, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Israel, Andorra, Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden.
The 3rd division participants
Croatia, Belgium, Latvia, Serbia, Greece, Norway, Hungary, Luxembourg, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Malta, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Monaco, San-Marino, Estonia, Finland, Armenia, Slovenia, Slovakia.
European women’s championship is also divided into three stages: Top-10, the second division and the third division. Georgian team is in the third division.
Top-10 participants
England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Russia, Portugal.
The 2nd division participants
Germany, Sweden, Moldova, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, Romania, Latvia, Andorra,, Czech Republic, Austria, Croatia.
The 3rd division participants
Bulgaria, Ukraine, Malta, Hungary, Norway, Poland Georgia, Lithuania, Denmark, Luxembourg, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Serbia, Monaco, San-Marino, Slovakia, Estonia, Greece.
