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2007–08 EDF Energy Cup

Field	Value
name	2007–08 EDF Energy Cup
imagesize	200px
caption	Official Logo
countries	England
Wales
tournament format	Round-robin and knockout
date	October 2007 - April 2008
teams	16
venue	Twickenham
attendance2	65,756
champions	WAL Ospreys
count	1
runner-up	ENG Leicester Tigers
previous year	2006–07
previous tournament	2006–07 EDF Energy Cup
next year	2008–09
next tournament	2008–09 EDF Energy Cup

Wales | runner-up = ENG Leicester Tigers

The 2007–08 EDF Energy Cup was the 37th season of England's national rugby union cup competition, and the third to follow the recently adopted Anglo-Welsh format.

As in the previous two years, the competition is contested between the 12 teams of the Guinness Premiership and the four Welsh regions from the Celtic League. The 16 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

Con: Walker (1/2) Pen: Paterson (1/1) 3' Walker (1/2) 60' Thompson m Con: Flood (1/2) Pen: Flood (2/2) 61', 65'

Wilson 26' c Phillips 43' m Rudd 69' c Con: Flood (2/3) Jones (1/1) Pen: Flood (1/1) 17' R. Thomas (2) 49' m, 72' m Williams 57' c Con: A. Thomas (2/4)

Haskell (2) 64' c, 71' c Hart 77' c Con: Cipriani (3/4) Pen: Cipriani (1/1) 40' Azam 35' c Morgan 47' c Balshaw 61' m Con: Lamb (3/4)

Pen: Sweeney (2) 17', 62' Con: Paterson Pen: Walker 4', 46'

Penalty try 32' c Con: Cipriani Pen: Cipriani (4) 10', 16', 54', 78'

Group B

Thomas (2) 21' c, 26' m Rush 30' c James 80+1' m Con: Robinson (2/5) Pen: Robinson (1/1) 19' Lamont 79' m Con: Thomas (1/2) Pen: Thomas (1/1) 16'

Crockett 69' c Con: Davis (1/1) Berne (1/1) Pen: Davis (2/3) 4', 30' Pen: Humphreys (3/5) 7', 24', 43'

Con: Hodgson (1/1) Pen: Hodgson (5/5) 11', 14', 37', 44', 59' Drop: Hodgson (1/1) 6' Con: Berne (1/1) Pen: Berne (1/2) 19'

J. Murphy (2) 50' m, 70' c Hipkiss 66' c Penalty try 76' c Con: Goode (1/2) Burke (3/3) Pen: Goode (3/3) 14', 22', 40' Blair 79' c Con: Blair (2/2) Pen: Blair (2/3) 9', 25'

Pen: Flanagan (3) 15', 40+2', 67'

Hipkiss 49' c Varndell 76' c Croft 80+1' m Con: Goode (3) Pen: Goode (2) 39', 67' Pen: McAlister 12'

Group C

Con: Brown (1/1) Pen: Drahm (3/3) 36', 40', 44' Walker 15' c Williams (2) 38' c, 72' m Parker 51' c Philips 74' c Con: Hook (4/4) Connor (2/3)

Pen: Armitage (1/1) 38' Con: Jarvis (1/1) Pen: Jarvis (1/2) 40'

Brown 57' m Con: Malone (2/3) Pen: Malone (1/1) 20' Lutui 32' c Sanderson 72' m Con: Crichton (1/2) Pen: Brown (1/1) 28' Crichton (1/1) 40'

S. Williams (3) 32' c, 68' m, 74' c Phillips 48' c Lewis 58' c A. W. Jones 61' m Con: Hook (4/6) Connor (1/1) Pen: Hook (2/2) 3', 26' Con: Hickey (1/1) Pen: Hickey (3/5) 8', 23', 28'

S. Armitage 25' c Thorpe (2) 39' c, 61' m Tagicakibau 42' c Mordt 58' c Fury 68' m Con: Hickey (4) Mordt Pen: Hickey 43' Garvey 36' m Horstmann 50' c Bowley (2) 65' m, 79' m Con: Carlisle

Pen: Jarvis 14' Con: Henson Pen: Henson (4) 19', 24', 50', 74'

Group D

MacDonald 57' c Armstrong 69' m Satala 74' m Con: Di Bernardo (1/4) Pen: Di Bernardo (2/2) 3', 44' McMullen 45' c Thrower 60' m Rauluni 64' c Sorrell 80' c Con: Ross (5/6) Pen: Ross (2/2) 6', 35'

Blowers 30' c Con: Hill (1/2) Pen: Hill (2/2) 7', 44' Pen: Priestland (1/2) 4' S. Jones (1/1) 43'

Bater 10' c M. Jones 16' c Popham 38' c I. Thomas 51' c MacLeod 59' c Easterby 64' c Con: S. Jones (8/8) Pen: S. Jones (1/1) 26' Hepworth 72' c Con: Di Bernardo (2/3)

Vyvyan 61' c Seymour 63' c Kyriacou 80' c Con: Ross (1/1) Jackson (3/4) Pen: Ross (4/4) 6', 13', 31', 36' Con: Strange (1/2) Pen: Strange (1/1) 39'

S. Jones 43' c J. Davies 51' m G. R. Evans 55' m Con: S. Jones (2) Pen: S. Jones (4) 10', 16', 40', 62' Powell 47' c Ratuvou 58' m Con: Ross (2) Farrell Pen: Farrell (2) 73', 80+1'

Con: Strange Pen: Strange (2) 40', 57' Con: Brooks Pen: Brooks (2) 30', 42'

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

Rabeni 44' c Hipkiss 56' c Castrogiovanni 68' c Con: Goode (4) Pen: Goode (2/2) 16', 28' Sackey (2) 30' m, 61' m Con: Cipriani Walder

Henson 51' c Tiatia 62' c Con: Hook (2) Pen: Hook (2/2) 29', 59'

Final

Drop: Goode 17' A. W. Jones 48' c Con: Hook (2) Pen: Hook (3/5) 58', 73', 76'

ARG Marcelo Loffreda

WAL Lyn Jones

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