2014–15 European Rugby Champions Cup pool stage (original) (raw)

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2014–15 European Rugby Champions Cup pool stage
Season 2014–15 European Rugby Champions Cup
Date 17 October 2014 – January 2015
Qualifiers
Seed 1 France Racing Métro
Seed 2 France Toulon
Seed 3 France Clermont
Seed 4 Ireland Leinster
Seed 5 England Bath
Seed 6 England Northampton Saints
Seed 7 England Wasps
Seed 8 England Saracens
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The 2014–15 European Rugby Champions Cup pool stage was the first stage of the 20th season of European club rugby union, and the first to be organised under the new European Rugby Champions Cup format, which replaced the Heineken Cup as the top European competition for clubs.

It involved 20 teams competing, across 5 pools of 4 teams, for 8 quarter-final places – which were awarded to the 5 pool winners and the 3 top-ranked pool runners-up.

The pool stage began on the weekend of 17–19 October 2014, and was completed on the weekend of 23–25 January 2015.

The 20 teams were seeded through a new system based solely on clubs' performance in their domestic leagues for the previous season, whereas the previous tournament, the Heineken Cup, seeded teams based on performance in European competition over 4 previous seasons.

Where teams were seeded based on play-off performance, if teams were eliminated in the same round of a knock-out tournament, their league position at the end of the regular season determined which team received a higher seed.

Rank Top 14 Premiership Pro 12
1 France Toulon England Saracens Ireland Leinster Rugby
2 France Castres Olympique England Northampton Saints Scotland Glasgow Warriors
3 France Montpellier England Leicester Tigers Ireland Munster
4 France Racing Métro England Harlequins Ireland Ulster
5 France Clermont England Bath Wales Ospreys
6 France Toulouse England Sale Sharks Wales Scarlets
7 England Wasps Italy Benetton Treviso

Teams were then placed into 4 Tiers, each containing 5 teams, based on their seeding. A draw determined which two second seeded teams completed Tier 1, and based on this, the fourth seeded teams were allocated to either Tier 2 and Tier 3.

The brackets show each team's seeding and their league (for example, 1 Top 14 indicates the team was seeded 1st from the Top 14).

Tier 1 Ireland Leinster (1 Pro12) England Saracens (1 AP) France Toulon (1 Top 14) England Northampton Saints (2 AP) Scotland Glasgow Warriors (2 Pro12)
Tier 2 France Castres Olympique (2 Top 14) Ireland Munster (3 Pro12) England Leicester Tigers (3 AP) France Montpellier (3 Top 14) France Racing Métro (4 Top14)
Tier 3 England Harlequins (4 AP) Ireland Ulster (4 Pro12) Wales Ospreys (5 Pro12) England Bath (5 AP) France Clermont (5 Top 14)
Tier 4 Wales Scarlets (6 Pro12) England Sale Sharks (6 AP) France Toulouse (6 Top 14) England Wasps (7 Play-off) Italy Benetton Treviso (7 Pro12)

The draw took place on 10 June 2014, at the Stade de la Maladière in Neuchâtel.[1][2]

Teams played each other twice, both at home and away, in the group stage, that began on the weekend of 17–19 October 2014, and continued through to 23–25 January 2015.[3]

The pool stage of the competition used the same competition point system as previous European competitions, where, based on the result of the match, teams receive:[4]

Based on these competition points, the five pool winners from each group progressed to the quarter-finals, along with the three best pool runners-up from the competition. If at any point in the competition there was a tie between two or more teams from the same pool, the following criteria were used as tie-breakers:[4]

  1. The club with the greater number of competition points from only matches involving tied teams.
  2. If equal, the club that scored the most tries in those matches.
  3. If equal, the club with the best aggregate points difference from those matches.

If this did not separate teams, and/or the tie related to teams that did not play each other (i.e., in different pools), the following tie breakers were used:

  1. The club that scored the most tries in the pool stage.
  2. If equal, the club with the best aggregate points difference from the pool stage.
  3. If equal, the club with the fewest players suspended in the pool stage.
  4. If equal, the drawing of lots will determine a club's ranking.

Fixtures were announced on Thursday 14 August 2014. Alongside the exact dates and kick-off times for rounds 1 and 2.[5] Exact times for Rounds 3 and 4 were announced 10 October 2014, and for Rounds 5 and 6 were announced 19 December 2014.

Key to colours

| | Winner of each pool, advance to quarter-finals. | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | Three highest-scoring second-place teams advance to quarter-finals. |

Teamvte P W D L PF PA Diff TF TA TB LB Pts
France Clermont (3) 6 5 0 1 140 80 +60 14 6 1 1 22
England Saracens (8) 6 4 0 2 119 95 +24 12 10 1 0 17
Ireland Munster 6 3 0 3 144 114 +30 15 11 1 2 15
England Sale Sharks 6 0 0 6 82 196 −114 8 22 0 2 2
Teamvte P W D L PF PA Diff TF TA TB LB Pts
Ireland Leinster (4) 6 4 1 1 148 101 +47 13 9 1 1 20
England Wasps (7) 6 3 1 2 155 105 +50 18 12 2 2 18
England Harlequins 6 4 0 2 135 99 +36 13 7 1 1 18
France Castres Olympique 6 0 0 6 86 219 −133 10 26 0 1 1

Note:

Teamvte P W D L PF PA Diff TF TA TB LB Pts
France Toulon (2) 6 5 0 1 181 89 +92 19 9 1 1 22
England Leicester Tigers 6 3 0 3 108 126 −18 12 15 1 0 13
Ireland Ulster 6 2 0 4 116 146 −30 16 15 3 1 12
Wales Scarlets 6 2 0 4 90 134 −44 8 16 0 0 8
(1 BP) Toulon France 60–22 Ireland Ulster (1 BP)
Try: Sánchez 2' cHabana 31' cBastareaud 36' cCastrogiovanni 49' cS. Armitage (3) 57' c, 64' c, 78' mGorgodze 59' cCon: Halfpenny (7/8) 3', 32', 37', 51', 58', 60', 65'Pen: Halfpenny (2/2) 9', 18' Report[38] Try: Jackson 11' mMcComish (2) 21' m, 76' cPayne 68' mCon: Pienaar (1/2) 77'
Teamvte P W D L PF PA Diff TF TA TB LB Pts
England Bath (5) 6 4 0 2 146 108 +38 15 15 2 1 19
France Toulouse 6 4 0 2 126 124 +2 11 10 0 1 17
Scotland Glasgow Warriors 6 3 0 3 108 84 +24 11 6 1 2 15
France Montpellier 6 1 0 5 90 154 −64 9 15 0 2 6
Teamvte P W D L PF PA Diff TF TA TB LB Pts
France Racing Métro (1) 6 5 1 0 168 69 +99 20 7 2 0 24
England Northampton Saints (6) 6 4 0 2 178 82 +96 25 8 3 0 19
Wales Ospreys 6 1 1 4 110 121 −11 11 13 1 2 9
Italy Benetton Treviso 6 1 0 5 62 246 −184 8 36 0 0 4
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