2015 World Rugby Pacific Challenge

The 2015 Pacific Challenge was the tenth World Rugby Pacific Challenge (known as the IRB Pacific Rugby Cup in previous seasons). The tournament, featuring six national 'A' rugby union teams, was hosted in Fiji. The tournament was won by Pampas XV, who defeated Fiji Warriors by 17–9 in the final.

Format The teams were split into two pools and each team played the three opponents in the opposite pool. The teams finishing on top of each pool progressed to the final, the second teams in each pool played off for third place, and the bottom teams in each pool played off for fifth place.

Teams The six competing teams were:

Pool A

Pampas XV

Pool B

Fiji Warriors

Standings Competition tables after the pool matches:

Pool A {| class="wikitable" |- !width=170|Team !width=40|Played !width=40|Won !width=40|Drawn !width=40|Lost !width=40|For !width=40|Against !width=40|Diff !width=40|BP1 !width=40|BP2 !width=40|Pts |- style="background:#cfc; text-align:center;" |align=left| Pampas XV | 3 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 89 || 42 || +47 || 2 || 0 || 14 |- style="text-align:center;" |align=left| | 3 || 2 || 0 || 1 || 69 || 87 || -18 || 1 || 0 || 9 |- style="text-align:center;" |align=left| | 3 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 41 || 212 || -171 || 1 || 0 || 1

|- bgcolor="#ffffff" align=center style="border:0px" |colspan="15"| |- |- bgcolor="#ffffff" align=center style="border:0px" |colspan="15" style=line-height:80% |Updated: 18 March 2015Source: worldrugby.org |} {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="text-align:center; line-height:100%; font-size:100%; width:60%;" |- ! colspan="4" style="border:0px" |Competition rules |- | colspan="4" | Points breakdown:4 points for a win2 points for a draw1 bonus point for a loss by seven points or less1 bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match Classification:Teams standings are calculated as follows:Most log points accumulated from all matchesMost log points accumulated in matches between tied teamsHighest difference between points scored for and against accumulated from all matchesMost points scored accumulated from all matches

Pool B {| class="wikitable" |- !width=170|Team !width=40|Played !width=40|Won !width=40|Drawn !width=40|Lost !width=40|For !width=40|Against !width=40|Diff !width=40|BP1 !width=40|BP2 !width=40|Pts |- style="background:#cfc; text-align:center;" |align=left| Fiji Warriors | 3 || 2 || 0 || 1 || 145 || 42 || +103 || 2 || 1 || 11 |- style="text-align:center;" |align=left| | 3 || 1 || 0 || 2 || 101 || 72 || +29 || 1 || 1 || 6 |- style="text-align:center;" |align=left| | 3 || 1 || 0 || 2 || 95 || 85 || +10 || 1 || 1 || 6

Pool matches

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Finals

5th place

3rd place

Final

References

External links World Rugby Pacific Challenge 2015 official page FORU website

2015 World Rugby Pacific Challenge

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