# 2022–23 Rugby Europe Trophy

The 2022–23 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 Croatia, Lithuania, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine.

## Participants

| Nation | Stadium | Stadium | Stadium | Head coach | Captain |
| Nation | Home stadium | Capacity | Location | Head coach | Captain |
| Croatia | Stari plac Stadion NŠC Stjepan Spajić | 5,000 5,000 | Split Zagreb | Anthony Posa | Nik Jurišić |
| Lithuania | Šiauliai Rugby Academy Stadium | 4,000 | Šiauliai | Gediminas Marcišauskas | Tautvydas Krasauskas |
| Sweden | Malmö Stadion Olympiastadion | 26,500 14,417 | Malmö Stockholm | 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 | Stari plac* | 5,000 | Split* | Valerii Kochanov | Oleh Kosariev Viacheslav Ponomarenko |
* Owing to the ongoing Russian invasion, Ukraine's home matches were played in Croatia

## Table

* Champions
| 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 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 205 | 72 | +133 | 29 | 8 | +21 | 3 | 0 | 19 |
| 2 | Ukraine | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 117 | 135 | -18 | 15 | 20 | -5 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 3 | Sweden | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 82 | 139 | -57 | 11 | 19 | -8 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 4 | Lithuania | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 97 | 122 | -25 | 13 | 15 | -2 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | Croatia | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 100 | 133 | -33 | 12 | 18 | -4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 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 |

## Fixtures

* 22 October 2022 14:15 CEST (UTC +2)
| (1 LBP) Croatia | 22–27 | Ukraine |
| | Report | |
* Stadion NŠC Stjepan Spajić, Zagreb Attendance: 650 Referee: Pedro Mendes-Silva (Portugal)
* 29 October 2022 14:00 CEST (UTC +2)
| (1TBP) Sweden | 37–17 | Croatia |
| | Report | |
* Olympiastadion, Stockholm Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Eugeniu Procopi (Moldova)
* 5 November 2022 14:00 EET (UTC+2)
| (1 TBP) Lithuania | 39–20 | Ukraine |
| | Report | |
* Šiauliai Rugby Academy Stadium, Šiauliai Attendance: 700 Referee: Sulkhan Chikladze (Georgia)
* 5 November 2022 14:00 CET (UTC +1)
| Sweden | 12–69 | Switzerland (1 TBP) |
| | Report | |
* Malmö Stadion, Malmö Attendance: 200 Referee: Ignacio Munoz-Martin (Spain)
* 12 November 2022 15:00 CET (UTC +1)
| (1 TBP) Switzerland | 45–6 | Lithuania |
| | Report | |
* Stade Juan Antonio Samaranch, Lausanne Attendance: 650 Referee: John Catteau (Belgium)
* 11 March 2023 14:00 CET (UTC +1)
| Ukraine | 32–59 | Switzerland (1 TBP) |
| | Report | |
* Stadion NŠC Stjepan Spajić, Zagreb Attendance: 150 Referee: Anthony Lac (Monaco)
* 18 March 2023 15:30 CET (UTC +1)
| (1 TBP) Ukraine | 38–15 | Sweden |
| | Report | |
* Stari plac, Split Attendance: 250 Referee: Kevin Sulejmani (Belgium)
* 25 March 2023 14:00 EET (UTC +2)
| (1 LBP) Lithuania | 37–39 | Croatia |
| | Report | |
* Šiauliai Rugby Academy Stadium, Šiauliai Attendance: 600 Referee: Ignacio Munoz-Martin (Spain)
* 1 April 2023 14:00 EEST (UTC +3)
| (1 LBP) Lithuania | 15–18 | Sweden |
| | Report | |
* Regbio stadionas, Šiauliai Attendance: n/a Referee: Lukasz Jasinski (Poland)
* 1 April 2023 16:00 CEST (UTC +2)
| Croatia | 22–32 | Switzerland |
| | Report | |
* Gradski sportski centar, Makarska Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Killian O'Brien (Germany)
* ↑ Fixture reversed due to the Swedish RFU having no stadium available