The 2010

Pacific Nations Cup The Pacific Nations Cup is an international rugby union competition held between three Pacific states: Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. The 2019 edition of the tournament will also include the national teams of Canada, Japan and United States. First hel ...

was a

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tournament held between four national sides on the Pacific Rim: Fiji, Japan,

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and

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. The competition was won by Samoa. The

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, the defending title holder, decided not to take part in this year's competition. The inaugural competition was held in 2006. This year the tournament began on June 12 and ended on June 26, 2010, with most of the matches hosted by

. All matches except for a match between Fiji and

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champion, Japan were played at

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. The tournament was a round-robin where each team played all of the other teams once. The standard bonus points system was used to determine the overall winner—four points for a win, two for a draw and none for a defeat, plus single bonus points offered for scoring four or more tries in a match and losing by 7 points or fewer.

Table

Schedule

Round 1

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Round 2

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Round 3

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Top scorers

Top points scorers

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Top try scorers

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References

External links

IRB Pacific Nations Cup
– from the IRB website (June 12, 2010)
Schedule
– IRB website (pdf)

– IRB website, 11 March 2010 {{DEFAULTSORT:Pacific 2010 2010 rugby union tournaments for national teams 2010 in Oceanian rugby union 2010 in Fijian rugby union 2009–10 in Japanese rugby union 2010 in Samoan rugby union 2010 in Tongan rugby union