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2009–10 LV Cup
Tournament details
Countries	England  Wales
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and knockout
Date	November 2009 - March 2010
Tournament statistics
Teams	16
Matches played	35
Attendance	278,978 (7,971 per match)
Tries scored	150 (4.29 per match)
Final
Venue	Sixways Stadium
Attendance	12,024
Champions	Northampton Saints (1st title)
Runners-up	Gloucester
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The 2009–10 LV Cup (styled as the LV= Cup) was the 39th season of England's national rugby union cup competition, and the fifth to follow the Anglo-Welsh format.

Northampton Saints were crowned champions after beating Gloucester in the final at Worcester's Sixways Stadium.

The structure of the competition was altered from previous years. The competition continued to consist of the four Welsh Celtic League teams and the twelve Guinness Premiership clubs, arranged into pools consisting of three English teams and one Welsh. However, the new format saw teams guaranteed two home and two away pool matches, with teams in Pools 1 and 4 playing each other and teams in Pools 2 and 3 playing each other. The competition took place on international fixture dates during the Autumn Internationals and Six Nations, with the aim of allowing teams to develop their squad players.

On 29 October 2009, little more than a week before the start of this season's competition, British insurer LV was unveiled as the new sponsor.

Pool stage

Points system

The points scoring system for the pool stage was as follows:

• 4 points for a win
• 2 points for a draw
• 1 bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match (TB)
• 1 bonus point for a loss by seven points or less (LB)

The ranking criteria were:

• If two or more clubs in the same pool end the pool stage equal on match points, then the order in which they have finished will be determined by:
  • i. the greater number of matches won by the club and
  • ii. if the number of matches won is equal, the club with the greater total number of tries scored and
  • iii. if the total number of tries scored is equal, the club with the greater points difference (points scored for, less points scored against) and
  • iv. if the points difference is equal, the club with the fewer number of red cards and
  • v. if the number of red cards is the same, by the toss a coin.

Pool 1 v Pool 4

Pool 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	T	TB	LB	Pts
1	Saracens	4	2	0	2	83	69	+14	8	1	1	10
2	Leicester Tigers	4	2	0	2	84	82	+2	10	1	0	9
3	Sale Sharks	4	1	0	3	57	83	−26	7	1	1	6
4	Ospreys	4	1	0	3	68	97	−29	9	0	1	5

Pool 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	T	TB	LB	Pts
1	Northampton Saints	4	4	0	0	81	45	+36	7	0	0	16
2	Newport Gwent Dragons	4	3	0	1	103	79	+24	10	0	0	12
3	Bath	4	2	0	2	94	75	+19	12	1	0	9
4	Leeds Carnegie	4	1	0	3	53	93	−40	6	0	1	5

Round 1

Ospreys	17–19	Northampton Saints
Try: Spratt Hibbard Con: Owen Pen: Owen	Report	Try: Cannon Con: Myler Pen: Myler (4)

Newport Gwent Dragons	20–9	Sale Sharks
Try: Connor Lee Con: Connor Greendale Pen: Connor Greendale	Report	Pen: Hodgson (3)

Leeds Carnegie	28–17	Leicester Tigers
	Report

Saracens	30–22	Bath
	Report

Round 2

Sale Sharks	27–3	Leeds Carnegie
Try: Vakacegu Ripol O'Donnell Seymour Con: Hodgson (2) Pen: Hodgson	Report	Pen: Ford

Bath	21–11	Ospreys
Try: Watson Browne Con: Davis Pen: Davis (3)	Report	Try: Tipuric Pen: Davies Owen

Northampton Saints	19–3	Saracens
Try: Ashton Reihana Pen: Myler (3)	Report	Pen: Goode

Leicester Tigers	29–20	Newport Gwent Dragons
Try: Crane Allen Penalty Con: Staunton Pen: Staunton (2) Flood (2)	Report	Try: Tovey Brew Gomer-Davies Con: Connor Pen: Conner

Round 3

Newport Gwent Dragons	40–19	Ospreys
Try: A. Jones Smith Brew Con: Tovey (2) Pen: Tovey (7)	Report	Try: Owen Penalty Prydie Con: Prydie (2)

Leeds Carnegie	5–28	Saracens
Try: Wackett	Report	Try: Joubert Brits Powell Marshall Con: Hougaard (3) Jackson

Leicester Tigers	27–11	Bath
Try: Twelvetrees (2) Penalty Tuilagi Con: Vesty (2) Pen: Vesty	Report	Try: Fa'amatuainu Pen: Davis (2)

Sale Sharks	14–20	Northampton Saints
Try: Hodgson Koyamailbole	Report	Try: Mayor Diggin Pen: Myler (2)

Round 4

Ospreys	21–17	Leeds Carnegie
	Report

Bath	40–7	Sale Sharks
	Report

Northampton Saints	23–11	Leicester Tigers
	Report

Saracens	22–23	Newport Gwent Dragons
	Report

Pool 2 v Pool 3

Pool 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	T	TB	LB	Pts
1	Gloucester	4	2	0	2	87	81	+6	12	1	2	11
2	Scarlets	4	2	1	1	88	83	+5	9	1	0	11
3	London Irish	4	1	0	3	54	70	−16	4	0	2	6
4	Newcastle Falcons	4	0	0	4	41	105	−64	5	1	1	2

Pool 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	T	TB	LB	Pts
1	Cardiff Blues	4	3	0	1	120	84	+36	14	2	1	15
2	London Wasps	4	3	0	1	67	55	+12	6	0	1	13
3	Harlequins	4	2	1	1	79	67	+12	7	0	1	11
4	Worcester Warriors	4	2	0	2	73	64	+9	8	1	0	9

Round 1

Worcester Warriors	32–6	Newcastle Falcons
	Report

Harlequins	15–15	Scarlets
	Report

Gloucester	25–26	Cardiff Blues
	Report

London Irish	20–24	London Wasps
	Report

Round 2

Scarlets	32–17	Worcester Warriors
Try: Daniel Lyons Evans Priestland Con: Priestland (3) Pen: Priestland (2)	Report	Try: Cox Kitchener Con: MacRae (2) Pen: Crook

Cardiff Blues	11–12	London Irish
Try: Rees Pen: Sweeney (2)	Report	Pen: Hewat (2) Homer Lamb

London Wasps	21–14	Gloucester
Try: Varndell Simpson Con: Walder Pen: Hickey Walder (2)	Report	Try: Burns (2) Con: Burns (2)

Newcastle Falcons	8–19	Harlequins
Try: Tait Pen: Miller	Report	Try: Smith Con: Clegg Pen: Clegg (4)

Round 3

Gloucester	17–5	Worcester Warriors
Try: Burns Qera Con: Robinson Pen: Robinson (2)	Report	Try: Pennell

London Wasps	13–18	Scarlets
Try: Varndell (2) Pen: Walder	Report	Pen: Priestland (6)

Cardiff Blues	45–24	Newcastle Falcons
	Report

London Irish	13–16	Harlequins
	Report

Round 4

Scarlets	23–38	Cardiff Blues
	Report

Worcester Warriors	19–9	London Irish
	Report

Harlequins	29–31	Gloucester
	Report

Newcastle Falcons	3–9	London Wasps
	Report

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	14 March 2010 - Franklin's Gardens
	Northampton Saints	31
					21 March 2010 - Sixways Stadium
	Saracens	20
					Northampton Saints	30
	14 March 2010 - Cardiff City Stadium
					Gloucester	24
	Cardiff Blues	18
	Gloucester	29

Qualification criteria

The top teams from each pool qualify for the knockout stage. The pool winners were decided by the following criteria:

1. The pool winner will be the club with the highest number of match points in each pool. The pool winners will be ranked 1 to 4 by reference to the number of match points earned in the pools.

2. If two or more clubs in the same pool end the pool stage equal on match points, then the order in which they have finished will be determined by:

i. the greater number of matches won by the club and

ii. if the number of matches won is equal, the club with the greater total number of tries scored and

iii. if the total number of tries scored is equal, the club with the greater points difference (points scored for, less points scored against) and

iv. if the points difference is equal, the club with the fewer number of red cards and

v. if the number of red cards is the same, by the toss a coin.

Each of the four qualifying clubs shall be ranked as above and shall play each other as follows:

Semi-final 1 - 1st ranked club v 4th ranked club

Semi-final 2 - 2nd ranked club v 3rd ranked club

The first club listed in each of the semi-final matches shall be the home club.

Qualifiers

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	T	TB	LB	Pts
1	Northampton Saints	4	4	0	0	81	45	+36	7	0	0	16
2	Cardiff Blues	4	3	0	1	120	84	+36	14	2	1	15
3	Gloucester	4	2	0	2	87	81	+6	12	1	2	11
4	Saracens	4	2	0	2	83	69	+14	8	1	1	10

Semi-finals

Cardiff Blues	18–29	Gloucester
Try: Laulala Sweeney Con: Blair (2) Pen: Blair (2)	Report	Try: Burns Simpson-Daniel (3) Con: Robinson (3) Pen: Robinson

Northampton Saints	31–20	Saracens
Try: Dowson Mujati Diggin Best Con: Geraghty Pen: Geraghty (3)	Report	Try: Melck Pen: Hougaard (4) Jackson (1)

Final

Northampton Saints	30–24	Gloucester
Try: Tongaʻuiha Downey Dickson Con: Myler (3) Pen: Myler (3)	Report	Try: Qera Penalty try Con: Robinson Pen: Robinson (4)

FB 15 Shane Geraghty RW 14 Bruce Reihana OC 13 Jon Clarke IC 12 James Downey LW 11 Paul Diggin FH 10 Stephen Myler SH 9 Lee Dickson N8 8 Roger Wilson OF 7 Neil Best BF 6 Phil Dowson (c) RL 5 Juandré Kruger LL 4 Courtney Lawes TP 3 Brian Mujati HK 2 Brett Sharman LP 1 Soane Tongaʻuiha Replacements: HK 16 Andy Long PR 17 Regardt Dreyer PR 18 Jon Vickers FL 19 Mark Hopley N8 20 Mark Easter SH 21 Alan Dickens FH 22 Barry Everitt CE 23 Joe Ansbro Coach: Jim Mallinder

FB 15 Freddie Burns RW 14 James Simpson-Daniel OC 13 Tim Molenaar IC 12 Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu LW 11 Lesley Vainikolo FH 10 Nicky Robinson SH 9 Rory Lawson N8 8 Adam Eustace OF 7 Akapusi Qera BF 6 Peter Buxton (c) RL 5 Alex Brown LL 4 Will James TP 3 Pierre Capdevielle HK 2 Olivier Azam LP 1 Nick Wood Replacements: HK 16 Darren Dawidiuk PR 17 Yann Thomas PR 18 Rupert Harden FL 19 Apolosi Satala FL 20 Andy Hazell SH 21 Dave Lewis WG 22 Tom Voyce WG 23 Charlie Sharples Coach: Bryan Redpath

See also

• 2009–10 Premiership Rugby
• 2009–10 Celtic League

External links

• Official website
• Anglo Welsh Cup on Premiership Rugby website
  • Tables
  • Fixtures and results
• Anglo Welsh Cup website

References

1. "Anglo-Welsh Cup fixtures revealed". BBC Sport. British Broadcasting Corporation. 6 July 2009. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
2. "Anglo-Welsh Cup set to carry on". BBC Sport. British Broadcasting Corporation. 6 May 2009. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
3. "LV= sponsors rugby's Anglo-Welsh Tournament" (Press release). Rugby Football Union. 2009-10-29. Archived from the original on 2012-04-04. Retrieved 2009-10-30.
4. ^ "About the LV= Cup". LV=. Archived from the original on 25 August 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
5. ^ "Group Tables – LV= Cup – Previous Seasons". www.premiershiprugby.com. Archived from the original on 2013-04-11. Retrieved 15 February 2013.

• 2009–10 in Welsh rugby union
• 2009–10 English Premiership (rugby union)
• Anglo-Welsh Cup
• 2009–10 rugby union tournaments for clubs