{"id":264461,"date":"2025-11-05T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/264461\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T14:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T14:30:12","slug":"rugby-europe-championship-2026-fixtures-announced-with-new-final-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/264461\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby Europe Championship 2026 fixtures announced with new final host"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>mens<\/p>\n<p>rugby-europe-championship<\/p>\n<p>    Teams arrive on pitch during the 2025 Rugby Europe Championship final match between Georgia and Spain at Mikheil Meskhi Stadium on March 16, 2025 in Tbilisi, Georgia. (Photo by Levan Verdzeuli\/Getty Images) <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"expand\" src=\"https:\/\/eu-cdn.rugbypass.com\/images\/common-svg\/select-arrow.svg\" height=\"6\" width=\"11\"\/>      https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/news\/rugby-europe-championship-2026-fixtures-announced-with-new-final-host\/    <\/p>\n<p>Rugby Europe has confirmed the fixtures for the 2026 Men\u2019s Championship, with the competition set to return in February and March next year, ending with the finale in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>In the same way Paris staged the 2024 finale, Madrid will welcome finals day on Sunday, March 15. All three matches will be played on the same day, with ticket details to be announced in December.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will run across six weeks on this occasion instead of seven, and will follow the same format as last season: two pools of four, a round-robin stage, semi-finals, and then the finals weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760269811_297_spacer-new.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\"\/>Tests of time \u2013 Episode 1 | Trailer | RPTV<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 Rugby World Cup quarter final between New Zealand and Ireland will forever be remembered as an all time classic. Episode one of Tests of Time looks into what made that night so special. Watch now on RugbyPass TV.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rugbypass.tv\/video\/875691?showInterstitial=true\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"video-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760269811_297_spacer-new.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\"\/>Tests of time \u2013 Episode 1 | Trailer | RPTV<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 Rugby World Cup quarter final between New Zealand and Ireland will forever be remembered as an all time classic. Episode one of Tests of Time looks into what made that night so special. Watch now on RugbyPass TV.<\/p>\n<p>Reigning champions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/georgia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia<\/a> headline Pool A alongside fellow 2027 World Cup qualifiers Spain, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/netherlands\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netherlands<\/a> and Switzerland. Pool B also contains World Cup qualifiers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/portugal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portugal<\/a> and Romania, and could have a third as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/belgium\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Belgium<\/a> take part in the World Cup Final Qualification Tournament in Dubai this month. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/germany\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Germany<\/a> are the final side to complete Pool B. <\/p>\n<p>Pool A also happens to contain the two highest-ranked sides in the World Rugby rankings \u2013 11th place Georgia and 14th place Spain. <\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/827.png.webp\"\/> <\/p>\n<p> Spain <\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/805.png.webp\"\/> <\/p>\n<p> Fiji <\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/live\/fiji-vs-spain\/?g=949394\/\" class=\"link-box\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">   <\/p>\n<p>Portugal are the highest-ranked team in Pool B in 20th, followed swiftly by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/romania\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Romania<\/a> in 21st place and Belgium in 22nd. <\/p>\n<p>The tournament will kick off on February 7 when the Netherlands host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/spain\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spain<\/a> in Amsterdam and Belgium take on Portugal in Mons.<\/p>\n<p>The semi-finals will take place on March 7\u20138, hosted by the teams finishing first in each division, and third for the fifth-place final. The Championship will carry relegation jeopardy, with the bottom-ranked side across the 2025 iteration and next year\u2019s Championship dropping into the Trophy division \u2014 where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/poland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Poland<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/sweden\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sweden<\/a> are currently battling for promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Pool A: #1 Georgia, #4 Spain, #5 Netherlands and #8 Switzerland<br \/>Pool B: #2 Portugal , #3 Romania, #6 Germany and #7 Belgium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"mens rugby-europe-championship Teams arrive on pitch during the 2025 Rugby Europe Championship final match between Georgia and Spain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-264461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}