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2014–15 Rugby League European Championship B

international rugby league tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ23022969 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2014–15 European Championship B tournament was the eighth staging of the Rugby League European Shield tournament played in the respective European countries participating over 2014 and 2015.

Germany were replaced in the tournament by Ukraine. Ukraine was joined by Russia, Serbia and Italy to contest the tournament. The tournament formed part of the 2017 Rugby League World Cup qualifying process, as the top three teams from the European B competition advanced to the final round-robin stage.

Standings

Serbia, Russia and Italy have all qualified for the next stage of the 2017 Rugby League World Cup qualifying.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2014–15 Rugby League European Championship B” is international rugby league tournament. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Rugby, League and European, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2015, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Rugby, League and European is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “2014–15 Rugby League European Championship B” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.