World Rugby Under 20 Trophy

Current season or competition:

2014 IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy

Sport Rugby union

Instituted 2008

Number of teams 8

Country International (World Rugby)

Holders Japan (2014)

World Rugby Under 20 TrophyFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The World Rugby Under 20 Trophy (knownas the IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy until2014) is an international rugby unioncompetition. The event is organised by thesport's governing body, World Rugby, and iscontested by 8 men's junior national teams withan under-20 age requirement. This eventreplaced the World Rugby's former age-gradeworld championships, the Under-19 and Under-21 World Championships.

The inaugural tournament was held in June2008, hosted by Chile and with 8 teamsparticipating.

The World Rugby Under 20 Trophy is the second level of the World Rugby tournament structure for under-20national sides. At the same time that the Trophy was launched, the World Rugby (then known as theInternational Rugby Board) also launched an upper-level championship, featuring 16 teams in 2008 and 2009and a reduced format for 12 teams from 2010 and onwards.

Promotion and relegation between the Trophy and the Championship is in place. The winner of the Trophy willplay in next year's Championship, while the last placed team at the Championship will be relegated to theTrophy for the next year.

Contents

1 History

2 Tournament results

3 Team records

4 Participating nations

5 Leading all-time players

5.1 Points

6 External links

7 References

History

The inaugural tournament was held in 2008, hosted by Chile, and won by Uruguay. World Rugby's decision thatthe United States would host the tournament in 2012 was viewed as the United States taking a step closer

towards hosting the Rugby World Cup.[1]

Tournament results

Year HostFinal Third place match

Winner Score Runner-up 3rd place Score 4th place

2008 ChileUruguay

20 – 8Chile Georgia

34 –

10 Romania

2009 KenyaRomania

25 –

13 United States Chile

19 –

17 Kenya

2010 RussiaItaly

36 – 7Japan Russia

23 –

20

(aet)Romania

2011 GeorgiaSamoa

31 –

24 Japan Georgia

20 –

15 Uruguay

2012 United

States United States

37 –

33 Japan Tonga

31 –

29 Georgia

2013 ChileItaly

45 –

23 Canada Chile

38 –

35 Japan

2014 Hong

Kong Japan

35 –

10 Tonga United States

26 –

25 Uruguay

2015 Portugal Scheduled for 12–24 May Scheduled for 12–24 May

Team records

Team Titles Runners-up Third-place Fourth-place

Italy 2 (2010, 2013) - - -

Japan 1 (2014) 3 (2010, 2011, 2012) - 1 (2013)

United States 1 (2012) 1 (2009) 1 (2014) -

Romania 1 (2009) - - 2 (2008, 2010)

Uruguay 1 (2008) - - 2 (2011, 2014)

Samoa 1 (2011) - - -

Chile - 1 (2008) 2 (2009, 2013) -

Tonga - 1 (2014) 1 (2012) -

Canada - 1 (2013) - -

Georgia - - 2 (2008, 2011) 1 (2012)

Russia - - 1 (2010) -

Kenya - - - 1 (2009)

Participating nations

Team 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Years

Canada – – 6th 5th 6th 2nd 7th q 6

Cayman Islands dnq 8th dnq dnq dnq dnq dnq 1

Chile 2nd 3rd dnq dnq 5th 3rd dnq 4

Cook Islands 7th dnq dnq dnq dnq dnq dnq 1

Fiji – – – – – – – q 1

Georgia 3rd dnq dnq 3rd 4th dnq 5th q 5

Italy – – 1st – – 1st – 2

Hong Kong dnq dnq dnq dnq dnq dnq 8th q 2

Jamaica 8th dnq dnq dnq dnq dnq dnq 1

Japan – – 2nd 2nd 2nd 4th 1st – 5

Kenya dnq 4th dnq dnq dnq dnq dnq 1

Namibia 5th 5th dnq dnq dnq 8th 6th q 5

Papua New Guinea dnq 6th 8th dnq dnq dnq dnq 2

Portugal dnq dnq dnq dnq dnq 6th dnq q 2

Romania 4th 1st 4th dnq dnq dnq dnq 3

Russia dnq dnq 3rd 6th 8th dnq dnq 3

Samoa – – – 1st – – – – 1

South Korea 6th 7th dnq dnq dnq dnq dnq 2

Tonga – – – – 3rd 5th 2nd q 4

United States – 2nd dnq 7th 1st – 3rd 4

Uruguay 1st – 5th 4th dnq 7th 4th q 6

Zimbabwe dnq dnq 7th 8th 7th dnq dnq 3

Total 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

Legend

= Hosts

1st = Champions (promoted to IRB Junior World Championship)

1st = Champions (not promoted to IRB Junior World Championship)

2nd = Runners-up

3rd = Third place

4th = Fourth place

– = Competed in the U20 Championship

q = Qualified

dnq = Did not qualify

Leading all-time players

Points

Points Nation Player

82 United States Madison Hughes

82 Romania Stefan Patrascu

65 Canada Conor McCann

54 Georgia Bakhva Kobakhidze

54 Italy Alberto Chillon

Updated June 9, 2013.

External links

Official tournament site (http://www.irb.com/jwrt/index.html)

References

1. ESPN Scrum, USA to host IRB Junior World Trophy, Jan. 29, 2012, http://www.espnscrum.com/irb-

juniorworld-2011/rugby/story/158475.html

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