2009–10 British and Irish Cup pool stage explained

The 2009-10 British and Irish Cup pool stage is a rugby union tournament to be played during November 2009, February and March 2010.

The twenty four teams were arranged into four pools of six, with each team playing the other team in their pool once and the four pool winners qualifying for the knockout stage.

The following point scoring system was used:

• Four points for a win
• Two points for a draw
• One point for scoring four tries or more in a match
• One point for losing a match by seven or less points

Key to colours

Top team in each group advance to semi-finals

Pool A

Team	P	W	D	L	TF	PF	PA	BP	LB	+/-	Pts
Cornish Pirates	5	4	0	1	13	115	63	2	1	+52	19
Leinster A	5	4	0	1	9	89	65	1	1	+24	18
Newport	5	3	1	1	10	81	54	1	1	+27	16
Exeter Chiefs	5	2	0	3	11	79	85	1	1	-6	10
Plymouth Albion	5	1	1	3	5	55	58	0	2	-3	8
Gael Force	5	0	0	5	6	35	129	1	1	-94	2

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Pool B

Team	P	W	D	L	TF	PF	PA	+/-	Pts
Munster A	5	5	0	0	14	111	41	+70	22
Bristol	5	4	0	1	16	119	77	+42	18
Nottingham	5	3	0	2	11	81	59	+22	14
Neath	5	2	0	3	12	93	98	-5	11
Coventry	5	1	0	4	20	126	144	-18	8
Heriot's	5	0	0	5	8	57	168	-111	1

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Pool C

Team	P	W	D	L	TF	PF	PA	+/-	Pts
Ulster Ravens	5	4	1	0	22	165	62	+103	21
London Welsh	5	4	0	1	18	137	78	+59	20
Bedford Blues	5	3	0	2	11	92	94	-2	13
Aberavon	5	2	0	3	4	51	131	-80	9
Llanelli	5	1	1	3	11	106	117	-11	8
Moseley	5	0	0	5	10	69	138	-69	1

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Pool D

Team	P	W	D	L	TF	PF	PA	+/-	Pts
Doncaster Knights	5	5	0	0	7	163	58	+105	25
Cardiff	5	4	0	1	4	147	124	+23	19
Rotherham Titans	5	2	0	3	3	147	127	+20	12
Ayr	5	2	0	3	1	132	111	+21	11
Pontypridd	5	2	0	3	1	99	124	-25	10
Birmingham & Solihull	5	0	0	5	1	76	220	-144	1

• The round one game between Pontypridd RFC and Cardiff RFC, was played at Cardiff's home ground, due to Pontypridd's pitch being unplayable.*

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See also

• 2009-10 British and Irish Cup