# 2023–24 Rugby Europe Trophy

The 2023–24 Rugby Europe Trophy is the sixth season of the second premier rugby union competition for European national teams outside the Six Nations Championship which itself is a part of the Rugby Europe International Championships. The confirmed teams that are competing include Czechia, Croatia, Lithuania, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine.

## Participants

| Nation | Stadium | Stadium | Stadium | Head coach | Captain |
| Nation | Home stadium | Capacity | Location | Head coach | Captain |
| Croatia | Stadion Stari plac Stadion NŠC Stjepan Spajić | 5,000 5,000 | Split Zagreb | Anthony Posa | Nik Jurišić |
| Czech Republic | Markéta Stadium | 10,000 | Prague | Miroslav Němeček | Dan Hošek |
| Lithuania | Klaipėda Central Stadium Šiauliai Rugby Academy Stadium | 4,428 4,000 | Klaipėda Šiauliai | Gediminas Marcišauskas | Tautvydas Krasauskas |
| Sweden | Olympiastadion Östervångsstadion | 14,417 n/a | Stockholm Trelleborg | Alex Laybourne | Sami Paulsson |
| Switzerland | Stade Municipal Yverdon Colovray Sports Centre Centre Sportif des Cherpines | 6,600 7,200 1,000 | Yverdon-les-Bains Nyon Plan-les-Ouates | Olivier Nier | Cyril Lin |
| Ukraine | Makarska City Stadium* Rugby Club Havirov Stadium* | 3,000 300 | Makarska* Havířov* | Valerii Kochanov | Oleg Kosariev Viacheslav Ponomarenko |
* Owing to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's home matches will be played in Croatia and Czech Republic

## Table

* Champions
* Relegated to Conference
| Place | Nation | Games | Games | Games | Games | Points | Points | Points | Tries | Tries | Tries | TBP | LBP | Table points |
| Place | Nation | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against | Diff | For | Against | Diff | TBP | LBP | Table points |
| 1 | Switzerland (P) | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 198 | 64 | +134 | 25 | 8 | +17 | 2 | 0 | 22 |
| 2 | Sweden | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 145 | 112 | +33 | 21 | 13 | +8 | 2 | 0 | 18 |
| 3 | Czech Republic | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 192 | 153 | +39 | 26 | 19 | +7 | 2 | 0 | 14 |
| 4 | Croatia | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 130 | 132 | -2 | 20 | 10 | +1 | 2 | 1 | 11 |
| 5 | Lithuania | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 103 | 143 | -40 | 12 | 20 | -8 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | Ukraine | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 61 | 225 | -164 | 8 | 33 | -25 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Source - Points were awarded to the teams as follows: Win – 4 points | Draw – 2 points | At least 3 more tries than opponent – 1 point | Loss within 7 points – 1 point | Completing a Grand Slam – 1 point (P) - promoted to 2025 Rugby Europe Championship |||||||||||||| |

## Fixtures

* 28 October 2023 14:00 CEST (UTC+2)
| Sweden | 48–37 | Czech Republic |
| | Report | |
* Stockholm Olympic Stadium, Stockholm Attendance: 1,400 Referee: Eugeniu Procopi (Moldova)
* 4 November 2023 13:00 CET (UTC+1)
| (1 TBP) Czech Republic | 48–22 | Croatia |
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* Markéta Stadium, Prague Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Adrian Pawlik (Poland)
* 4 November 2023 14:00 CET (UTC +1)
| Ukraine | 14–32 | Lithuania |
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* Makarska City Stadium, Makarska Attendance: 300 Referee: Ethan Glass (Switzerland)
* 4 November 2023 15:30 CET (UTC+1)
| Switzerland | 23–12 | Sweden |
| | Report | |
* Stade Municipal, Yverdon-les-Bains Attendance: n/a Referee: Killian O'Brien (Germany)
* 11 November 2023 14:00 EET (UTC+2)
| Lithuania | 17–31 | Switzerland |
| | Report | |
* Klaipėda Central Stadium, Klaipėda Attendance: 500 Referee: Sulkhan Chikladze (Georgia)
* 11 November 2023 14:30 CET (UTC +1)
| Ukraine | 5–41 | Croatia (1 TBP) |
| | Report | |
* Makarska City Stadium, Makarska Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Luis Fernandez (Spain)
* 18 November 2023 14:30 CET (UTC +1)
| (1 LBP) Croatia | 20–22 | Sweden |
| | Report | |
* Stadion NŠC Stjepan Spajić, Zagreb Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Lukasz Jasinski (Poland)
* 25 November 2023 14:00 CET (UTC+1)
| Czech Republic | 34–24 | Lithuania |
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* Markéta Stadium, Prague Attendance: 700 Referee: Gert Visser (Netherlands)
* 9 March 2024 14:00 CET (UTC+1)
| Czech Republic | 25–41 | Switzerland |
| | Report | |
* Markéta Stadium, Prague Attendance: 600 Referee: Joshua Ferreira (Germany)
* 16 March 2024 14:30 CET (UTC+1)
| (1 TBP) Croatia | 37–22 | Lithuania |
| | Report | |
* Stadion NŠC Stjepan Spajić, Zagreb Attendance: 300 Referee: Maria Latos (Germany)
* 23 March 2024 13:00 CET (UTC+1)
| Ukraine | 18–48 | Czech Republic (1 TBP) |
| | Report | |
* Rugby Club Havirov Stadium, Havířov Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Mike Hawkins (Denmark)
* 23 March 2024 14:00 EET (UTC+2)
| Lithuania | 8–27 | Sweden (1 TBP) |
| | Report | |
* Šiauliai Rugby Academy Stadium, Šiauliai Attendance: 300 Referee: Pedro Mendes-Silva (Portugal)
* 23 March 2024 15:30 CET (UTC+1)
| (1 TBP) Switzerland | 35–10 | Croatia |
| | Report | |
* Stade Municipal, Yverdon-les-Bains Attendance: 1,518 Referee: Nicola Fratila (Romania)
* 6 April 2024 14:00 CEST (UTC+2)
| (1 TBP) Sweden | 36–24 | Ukraine |
| | Report | |
* Östervångsstadion, Trelleborg Attendance: 1,200 Referee: Gert Visser (Netherlands)
* 13 April 2024 15:30 CEST (UTC+2)
| (1 TBP) Switzerland | 68–0 | Ukraine |
| | Report | |
* Utogrund, Zürich Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Ignacio Munoz Martin (Spain)

## Two-Year overall table

* Promoted to Championship
| Place | Nation | Games | Games | Games | Games | Points | Points | Points | Tries | Tries | Tries | TBP | LBP | Table points |
| Place | Nation | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against | Diff | For | Against | Diff | TBP | LBP | Table points |
| 1 | Switzerland | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 362 | 111 | +251 | 49 | 13 | +36 | 5 | 0 | 37 |
| 2 | Sweden | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 179 | 214 | -35 | 26 | 27 | -1 | 3 | 0 | 23 |
| 3 | Croatia | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 208 | 217 | -9 | 28 | 30 | -2 | 2 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | Lithuania | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 176 | 231 | -55 | 23 | 31 | -8 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| 5 | Ukraine | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 160 | 312 | -152 | 21 | 46 | -25 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| Source - Points were awarded to the teams as follows: Win – 4 points | Draw – 2 points | At least 3 more tries than opponent – 1 point | Loss within 7 points – 1 point | Completing a Grand Slam – 1 point |||||||||||||| |