World Rugby Under 20 Trophy


The World Rugby Under 20 Trophy is an international rugby union competition. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, World Rugby, and is contested by 8 men's junior national teams with an under-20 age requirement. This event replaced the World Rugby's former age-grade world championships, the Under-19 and Under-21 World Championships.
The inaugural tournament was held in June 2008, hosted by Chile and with 8 teams participating.
The World Rugby Under 20 Trophy is the second level of the World Rugby tournament structure for under-20 national sides. At the same time that the Trophy was launched, World Rugby also launched an upper-level championship, featuring 16 teams in 2008 and 2009 and a reduced format for 12 teams from 2010 and onwards.
Promotion and relegation between the Trophy and the Championship is in place. The winner of the Trophy will play in next year's Championship, while the last placed team at the Championship will be relegated to the Trophy for the next year.

History

The inaugural tournament was held in 2008, hosted by Chile, and won by Uruguay.
World Rugby's decision that the United States would host the tournament in 2012 was viewed as the United States taking a step closer towards hosting the Rugby World Cup.

Tournament results

Team records

TeamTitlesRunners-upThird-placeFourth-place
3 3 -1
2 1 --
2 ---
1 1 1 -
1 -2 3
1 -2 1
1 -1 -
1 --2
-2 1 -
-2 --
-1 2 1
-1 2 -
-1 --
--1 -
---3
---1

Team
2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

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2014

2015

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2018

2019

2020
Years
-----------7th1
WCWC6th5th6th2nd7th2nd-7th7th5th9
-8th----------1
2nd3rd--5th3rd---5th--5
7th-----------1
WCWCWCWCWCWCWC5th3rd6th1stWCWC4
3rd--3rd4th-5th1stWCWCWCWCWC5
------8th8th7th8th6th8thq7
WCWC1stWCWC1stWCWCWCWCWCWCWC2
8th-----------1
WCWC2nd2nd2nd4th1stWCWC1stWC1stWC7
-4th---------6th2
5th5th---8th6th6th4th4th4th-8
-6th8th---------2
-----6th-7th-2nd3rd2nd5
4th1st4th-------8th-4
--3rd6th8th-------3
WCWCWC1stWCWCWCWC1stWC2nd-3
WCWCWCWCWCWCWCWCWCWCWCWCq1
6th7th----------2
--------2nd---q2
WCWCWCWC3rd5th2nd4th---3rd5
WC2nd-7th1stWC3rd-5th---5
1stWC5th4th-7th4th3rd6th3rd5th4thq11
--7th8th7th---8th'---4
Total8888888888884/8

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