Rugby Europe

Rugby Europe is the administrative body for rugby union in Europe. It was formed in 1999 to promote, develop, organise and administer the game across the continent under the authority of World Rugby, the sport's global governing body. It grew out of the Fédération Internationale de Rugby Amateur (FIRA), set up in 1934 to run rugby outside the International Rugby Football Board, and traded as FIRA-AER from 1999 until a rebranding in June 2014 gave it its present name. It had 47 member unions in December 2021. It runs the Rugby Europe International Championships for tier-two and tier-three European nations, the Under-18 championship and club events such as the Rugby Europe Super Cup, but it does not organise the Six Nations or the competitions of European Professional Club Rugby. After the 2022 invasion of Ukraine it suspended Russia from European rugby union competition.