2015 World Rugby Under 20 Trophy

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2015 World Rugby Under 20 Trophy
Tournament details
Host nation  Portugal
Dates May 12 – May 24
No. of nations 8
Champions Gold medal blank.svg  Georgia
Tournament statistics
Matches played 16
Top scorer(s) Georgia (country) Rezi Jinchvelashvili (51)
Most tries Namibia Christo van der Merwe (5)
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The 2015 World Rugby Under 20 Trophy was the eighth annual international rugby union competition for Under 20 national teams, second-tier world championship.[1] A total of 8 nations played in the tournament.

The event was held in Portugal and was organized by rugby's governing body, World Rugby.

Venues

The championship was held in Lisbon.

Location Venue Capacity
Lisbon Estádio Universitário de Lisboa 8,000
Lisbon CAR Rugby do Jamor

Teams

Pool Team[2][3][4][5] Number of
Tournaments		 Position Last Year Best Position
B  Canada 5 7 2nd in 2013
A  Fiji 0 Relegated from 2014 IRB JWC 1st appearance
A  Georgia 5 5 3rd in 2008, 2011
B  Hong Kong 1 8 8th in 2014
B  Namibia 4 6 5th in 2008, 2009
A  Portugal 2 N/A 6th in 2013
B  Tonga 3 2 2nd in 2014
A  Uruguay 5 4 Won the Trophy in 2008

Pool Stage

Pool A

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD TF TA Pts
 Georgia 3 3 0 0 95 36 +59 13 4 13
 Uruguay 3 2 0 1 77 98 -21 10 15 10
 Fiji 3 1 0 2 73 77 -4 10 7 7
 Portugal 3 0 0 3 56 90 -34 5 12 0

Fixtures

12 May 2015
17:00
Uruguay  12 – 46  Georgia
Report
CAR Rugby do Jamor, Lisbon
12 May 2015
19:00
Fiji  34 – 19  Portugal
Report
CAR Rugby do Jamor, Lisbon
16 May 2015
15:00
Uruguay  37 – 26  Portugal
Report
CAR Rugby do Jamor, Lisbon
16 May 2015
17:00
Fiji  13 – 30  Georgia
Report
CAR Rugby do Jamor, Lisbon
20 May 2015
17:00
Georgia  19 – 11  Portugal
Report
CAR Rugby do Jamor, Lisbon
20 May 2015
19:00
Fiji  26 – 28  Uruguay
Report
CAR Rugby do Jamor, Lisbon

Pool B

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD TF TA Pts
 Canada 3 3 0 0 72 46 +26 8 6 13
 Tonga 3 2 0 1 91 40 +51 13 4 11
 Namibia 3 1 0 2 67 92 -25 10 14 5
 Hong Kong 3 0 0 3 43 95 -52 5 12 0

Fixtures

12 May 2015
17:00
Canada  35 – 20  Namibia
Report
Estádio Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon
12 May 2015
19:00
Tonga  35 – 16  Hong Kong
Report
Estádio Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon
16 May 2015
15:00
Canada  24 – 15  Hong Kong
Report
Estádio Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon
16 May 2015
19:00
Tonga  45 – 11  Namibia
Report
Estádio Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon
20 May 2015
17:00
Namibia  36 – 12  Hong Kong
Report
Estádio Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon
20 May 2015
19:00
Tonga  11 – 13  Canada
Report
Estádio Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon

Knockout stage

7th place game

24 May 2015
11:00
Portugal  47 – 21  Hong Kong
Report
CAR Rugby do Jamor, Lisbon

5th place game

24 May 2015
13:00
Fiji  36 – 24  Namibia
Report
CAR Rugby do Jamor, Lisbon

Third place game

24 May 2015
15:00
Uruguay  44 – 43  Tonga
Report
Estádio Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon

Final

24 May 2015
17:00
Georgia  49 – 24  Canada
Report
Estádio Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon

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