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2016–17 Anglo Welsh Cup

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Countries
  
England Wales

Matches played
  
32

Teams
  
16

2016–17 Anglo-Welsh Cup

Tournament format(s)
  
Round-robin and knockout

Date
  
4 November 2016 – 18 March 2017

Attendance
  
267,834 (8,370 per match)

The 2016–17 Anglo-Welsh Cup is the 45th season of England's national rugby union cup competition, and the 11th to follow the Anglo-Welsh Cup format. The competition returns after a one-year absence due to being dropped due to the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England.

Contents

The competition consists of the four Welsh Pro 12 teams and the twelve English Premiership clubs arranged into pools consisting of three English and one Welsh team. English clubs have been allocated to the pools depending on their finish in the 2013–14 Aviva Premiership. Teams are guaranteed two home and two away pool matches, with teams in Pools 1 and 4 playing each other and teams in Pools 2 and 3 playing each other. The top team from each pool qualifies for the semi-finals. The competition will take place during the Autumn Internationals window and during the Six Nations thus allowing teams to develop their squad players.

Saracens are the defending champions this season after claiming the cup with a 23–20 victory over Exeter Chiefs in the 2014-15 final at Franklin's Gardens in Northampton. This was Saracens' second title in the competition.

Pool stages

Points system

The points scoring system for the pool stages will be as follows:

  • 4 points for a win
  • 2 points for a draw
  • 1 bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match (TB)
  • 1 bonus point for a loss by seven points or less (LB)

    • Attendances

  • Attendances do not include the final at Twickenham Stoop.

    • Individual statistics

  • Note if players are tied on tries or points the player with the lowest number of appearances is placed first (if they have the same number of games, then the less minutes played will rank first). Also note that points scorers includes tries as well as conversions, penalties and drop goals. Appearance figures also include coming on as substitutes (unused substitutes not included).

    • References

    2016–17 Anglo-Welsh Cup Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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