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2011–12 Heineken Cup
England France Ireland Wales Italy Scotland
• Leicester • Toulouse • Leinster • Cardiff Blues • Benetton • Glasgow
Tigers • Biarritz • Munster • Ospreys Treviso Warriors
• Northampton • Clermont • Ulster • Scarlets • Aironi • Edinburgh
Saints Auvergne • Connacht
• Gloucester • Castres
• Harlequins • Montpellier
• Bath • Racing Métro
• London Irish
• Saracens
2011–12 Heineken Cup The 2011–12 Heineken Cup is the 17th season of the
Heineken Cup, the annual rugby union European club
Tournament details competition for clubs from the top six nations in Euro-
Countries England pean rugby. The final will be at Twickenham[1] on the
weekend of 19–20 May 2012.[2][3]
France
Ireland
Italy
Teams
Scotland The default allocation of teams is as follows:[4]
Wales • England: 6 teams, based on performance in the Aviva
Premiership and Anglo-Welsh Cup[5]
Tournament format(s) Round-robin and Knockout
• France: 6 teams, based on regular-season finish in
Date 11 November 2011 – 19 May 2012 the Top 14[6]
Tournament statistics
• Ireland: 3 teams, based on regular-season finish in
the Celtic League [7]
Teams 24 • Wales: 3 teams, based on regular-season finish in the
Matches played 24 Celtic League[7]
• Italy and Scotland: 2 teams each, based on
Attendance 282,314 (11,763 per match) participation in the Celtic League (although there are
Tries scored 98 (4.08 per match) only 2 from each nation)[7]
The remaining two places are filled by the winners of the
Top point scorer(s) Dan Biggar (Ospreys)
previous year’s Heineken Cup and Amlin Challenge Cup.
(36 points)
If the cup winners are already qualified through their
Top try scorer(s) Iain Balshaw (Biarritz) domestic league, an additional team from their country
Tommy Bowe (Ospreys) will claim a Heineken Cup place (assuming another team
Henry Chavancy (Racing Métro)
Doug Howlett (Munster) is available). Accordingly, Harlequins claimed the Chal-
Juan José Imhoff (Racing Métro) lenge Cup winner’s berth, and since Heineken Cup win-
Eoin O’Malley (Leinster) ners Leinster were already domestically qualified, the ex-
Tim Visser (Edinburgh) tra Irish berth went to Connacht.
(2 tries)
Final
Seeding
Venue Twickenham, London
The seeding system was the same as in the 2010–11 tour-
Official website http://www.ercrugby.com/eng/ nament. The 24 competing teams are ranked based on
past Heineken Cup and European Challenge Cup perfor-
← 2010–11 (Previous) (Next) 2012–13 → mance, with each pool receiving one team from each
quartile, or Tier. The requirement to have only one team
per country in each pool, however, still applies (with
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Tier 1 Leinster (1) Toulouse (2) Munster (3) Cardiff Blues Biarritz (5) Leicester
(4) Tigers (6)
Tier 2 Northampton Clermont (10) Ospreys (11) Bath (12) Harlequins London Irish
Saints (7) (13) (15)
Tier 3 Ulster (16) Saracens (17) Gloucester Glasgow War- Scarlets (21) Edinburgh
(18) riors (20) (24)
Tier 4 Connacht Benetton Castres (31) Montpellier Racing Métro Aironi (37)
(25) Treviso (30) Hérault RC (32) (33)
Key to colours
Winner of each pool, advance to quarterfinals. Seed # in parentheses
Two highest-scoring second-place teams advance to quarterfinals. Seed # in parentheses
Third- through fifth- highest-scoring second-place teams parachute into the knockout stage
of the European Challenge Cup. Seed # in brackets
Team P W D L Tries Tries Try Points Points Points TB LB Pts
for against diff for against diff
Scarlets 2 2 0 0 7 4 +3 59 46 +13 1 0 9
Munster 2 2 0 0 5 4 +1 50 45 +5 0 0 8
Northampton Saints 2 0 0 2 4 6 −2 44 51 −7 0 2 2
Castres 2 0 0 2 4 6 −2 47 58 −11 0 1 1
the exception of the inclusion of the seventh English Pool 1
team).[8]
The brackets show each team’s European Rugby Club Pool 2
Ranking at the end of the 2010–11 season.
Pool 3
Pool stage
For more details on this topic, see 2011–12 Heineken Cup
Pool 4
pool stage.
The draw for the pool stage took place on 7 June 2011.
Pool 5
Under rules of the competition organiser, European
Rugby Cup, tiebreakers within each pool are as follows.[9]
Pool 6
• Competition points earned in head-to-head matches
• Total tries scored in head-to-head matches Knock-out stages
• Point differential in head-to-head matches
ERC has four additional tiebreakers, used if tied teams are Quarter-finals
in different pools, or if the above steps cannot break a tie
To be played on the weekend of 5–8 April 2012
between teams in the same pool:
• Tries scored in all pool matches
• Point differential in all pool matches
Semi-finals
• Best disciplinary record (fewest players receiving red To be played on the weekend of 27–29 April 2012
or yellow cards in all pool matches)
• Coin toss Final
To be played on the weekend of 18–20 May 2012
References
[1] http://www.ercrugby.com/eng/finals/
twickenham2012.php
[2] http://www.ercrugby.com/eng/1136.php
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Team P W D L Tries Tries Try Points Points Points TB LB Pts
for against diff for against diff
Edinburgh 2 2 0 0 8 6 +2 68 66 +2 1 0 9
Cardiff Blues 2 2 0 0 4 1 +3 50 38 +12 0 0 8
Racing Métro 2 0 0 2 6 8 −2 67 74 −7 1 2 3
London Irish 2 0 0 2 1 4 −3 37 44 −7 0 2 2
Team P W D L Tries Tries Try Points Points Points TB LB Pts
for against diff for against diff
Leinster 2 1 1 0 6 2 +4 54 29 +25 1 0 7
Bath 2 1 0 1 2 3 −1 37 39 −2 0 1 5
Glasgow Warriors 2 1 0 1 3 5 −2 39 59 −20 0 0 4
Montpellier 2 0 1 1 2 3 −1 29 32 −3 0 1 3
Team P W D L Tries Tries Try Points Points Points TB LB Pts
for against diff for against diff
Leicester Tigers 2 2 0 0 4 0 +4 48 21 +27 0 0 8
Clermont 2 1 0 1 9 1 +8 65 19 +46 1 1 6
Ulster 2 1 0 1 1 2 −1 25 31 −6 0 0 4
Aironi 2 0 0 2 0 11 −11 15 82 −67 0 0 0
Team P W D L Tries Tries Try Points Points Points TB LB Pts
for against diff for against diff
Saracens 2 1 0 1 6 4 +2 52 32 +20 1 1 6
Ospreys 2 1 1 0 3 5 −2 54 47 +7 0 0 6
Biarritz 2 1 0 1 4 2 +2 36 38 −2 0 1 5
Benetton Treviso 2 0 1 1 5 7 −2 43 68 −25 0 0 2
Team P W D L Tries Tries Try Points Points Points TB LB Pts
for against diff for against diff
Toulouse 2 2 0 0 5 3 +2 57 27 +30 0 0 8
Harlequins 2 2 0 0 4 2 +2 53 26 +27 0 0 8
Gloucester 2 0 0 2 2 5 −3 26 49 −23 0 1 1
Connacht 2 0 0 2 3 4 −1 27 61 −34 0 0 0
[3] "Teams learn 2011/2012 Heineken Cup pool stages [7] ^ http://www.ercrugby.com/eng/qualification/
fate". BBC Sport. 7 June 2011. celtic_countries.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/ [8] Heineken Cup Pool Draw. European Rugby Cup. 7 June
13679220.stm. Retrieved 9 June 2011. 2011. http://www.ercrugby.com/eng/matchdaytv/
[4] http://www.ercrugby.com/eng/heinekencup/ play/media/id/8618. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
rules/qualification_process.php [9] "Key Tournament Rules". European Rugby Cup.
[5] http://www.ercrugby.com/eng/qualification/ http://www.ercrugby.com/eng/heinekencup/
england.php rules/index.php. Retrieved 2010-10-10.
[6] http://www.ercrugby.com/eng/qualification/
france.php
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