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The 2008–09

Anglo-Welsh Cup The Anglo-Welsh Cup (), was a cross-border rugby union knock-out cup competition that featured the 12 Premiership Rugby clubs and the four Welsh regions. It was a created as a replacement for the RFU Knockout Cup, which featured only English clubs ...

, known as the EDF Energy Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 38th season of England's national

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cup competition, and the fourth to follow the recently adopted Anglo-Welsh format. As in the previous two years, the competition is contested between the twelve teams of the

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and the four Welsh regions from the

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. The sixteen teams are arranged into four pools, with one Welsh and three English teams in each. Teams are randomly drawn into groups, as opposed to previous years when English sides were grouped according to proximity to one another. Each team plays the other team from their group only once, meaning that two teams in each group face two away games, whereas the other two teams have two home games.

Group stage

In the pool matches, teams receive: * Four points for a win * Two points for a draw * A bonus point for scoring four or more tries, regardless of the match result * A bonus point for losing by seven or fewer points The winner of each pool advances to the semi-finals, at which stage a draw takes place to determine the teams that will play each other. The winners of the semi-final advance to the final to determine the competition winner; no "third place final" is played.

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Semi-finals

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Final

External links

EDF Energy Cup Homepage

Live Scores from EDF Energy Cup Site
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Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Semi-finals

Final

See also

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