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Cardiff Blues beat Racing and book play off spot
Sunday 22 January 2012
Cardiff Blues qualified for the Heineken Cup play offs after they beat Racing Metro 36-30 at Cardiff City Stadium on Sunday.
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Saracens book Heineken Cup quarter final
Sunday 22 January 2012
Saracens ensured that there will be at least one English representative in the last eight of the Heinekn Cup play offs when they beat Italian side Treviso 26-20 at Stadio Comunale di Monigo.
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Biarritz smash Ospreys Heineken Cup hopes
Sunday 22 January 2012
Biarritz smashed the Ospreys hopes of reaching the Heineken Cup play offs when they beat the Welshmen 36-5 on Sunday at Parc des Sports Aguilera.
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Munster knock Northampton out in thriller
Sunday 22 January 2012
Northampton Saints hopes of progressing in the Heineken Cup were ended when they fell to former Champions Munster 36-51 at Franklins Gardens.
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Leicester Tigers finish Heineken Cup on a high
Sunday 22 January 2012
Leicester Tigers ended their Heineken Cup campaign on a high when they beat Aironi 33-6 at Welford Road on Saturday.
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Ulster stumble against Clermont in Europe
Sunday 22 January 2012
Ulster missed out on a home Heineken Cup quarter final when they were beaten 19 -15 by Clermont Auvergne in France.
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Scarlets edge out Castres in Heineken Cup
Sunday 22 January 2012
The Scarlets edged out Pool 1 rivals Castres 13 -16 at Stade Pierre Antoine in the Heineken Cup on Saturday evening.
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Leinster book home Heineken Cup quarter final
Saturday 21 January 2012
Leinster put in another impressive performance and went to the top of the Heineken Cup standings when they beat Montpellier 25-3 at the RDS.
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Bath end European campaign with Glasgow win
Saturday 21 January 2012
Bath snuck past Glasgow 23-18 in their Pool 3 Heineken Cup match at The Recreation Ground on Saturday afternoon bringing an end to their European campaign.
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Connacht upset Harlequins in Heineken Cup
Saturday 21 January 2012
Connacht brought an end to Harlequins automatic Heineken Cup qualification hopes with a 9-8 Pool 6 victory at Galway Sportsground on Friday evening.
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Gloucester shock Toulouse in Heineken Cup
Saturday 21 January 2012
Gloucester caused one of the upsets of the season when they beat former Heineken Cup champions Toulouse in a 34-24 Pool 6 victory at Kingsholm on Friday evening.
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Saints drop Ashton for Munster in Heineken Cup
Friday 20 January 2012
Northampton Saints have named their team to play Munster in the Heineken Cup Round 6 match and there is no place for England winger Chris Ashton.
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Toulouse blamed for Airplane incident
Friday 20 January 2012
French rugby giants Toulouse found themselves the subject of a complaint from a Slovakian airline on Friday over damage caused to one of the company's planes.
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Heineken Cup teams for Round Six
Friday 20 January 2012
The teams for this weekend's Heineken Cup matches have been released and include all sixth round matches on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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Flight scare for Toulouse ahead of Heineken Cup
Friday 20 January 2012
Toulouse had the worst possible start to their Heineken Cup trip to England as the emergency exit door on their low-cost flight came loose.
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Cardiff Blues hoping for third time lucky in Europe
Thursday 19 January 2012
Cardiff Blues have the honour of being the only Welsh club to win a European title - but they are determined to make it third time lucky when it comes down to the crunch of Heineken Cup quarter-final qualification against Racing Metro 92 at Cardiff City
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Home advantage crucial for Rougerie's ClermontAshton walks out on Saints after Mallinder fightCockerill blames salary cap for Tigers' troublesJamie Roberts ruled out of Cardiff Blues clashLeinster join Munster in Heineken Cup last eight
Heineken Cup
The European Rugby Cup (known as the Heineken Cup because of the tournament's sponsorship by Heineken) is an annual rugby union competition involving leading club, regional and provincial teams from six International Rugby Board (IRB) nations in Europe: England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.
Romania competed in the first year of the competition only.
The competition is organised by the European Rugby Cup, who are also responsible for the secondary championship, the European Challenge Cup.
It is one of the most prestigious trophies in the sport. The tournament was launched in the European summer of 1995 on the initiative of the then Five Nations committee to provide a new level of professional cross-border competition.
It is sponsored by Dutch brewing company Heineken International (it is known as H-Cup in France because of alcohol advertising restrictions).
Each European nation has a different qualifying system, though in total, 24 teams contest the pool stages in six pools of four.
According to performances, the number of clubs from each nation changes. The tournament is held from October to May, with various stages scheduled around domestic club competitions.
The 2007-08 tournament was won by Ireland's Munster, who beat Toulouse of France 16–13 in the final at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.
Toulouse have been the most successful team, winning the competition three times. Leicester Tigers have won the tournament twice and are the only team to have won the tournament two years in succession.
Past Winners
2008/09: Leinster
2007/08: Munster
2007/08: Munster
2006/07: Wasps
2005/06: Munster
2004/05: Toulouse
2003/04: Wasps
2002/03: Toulouse
2001/02: Leicester
2000/01: Leicester
1999/00: Northampton
1998/99: Ulster
1997/98: Bath
1996/97: Brive
1995/96: Toulouse
Source - Wikipedia
