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2008–09 EDF Energy Cup

Field	Value
name	2008–09 EDF Energy Cup
imagesize	200px
caption	Official Logo
countries	England
Wales
tournament format	Round-robin and knockout
date	October 2008 - April 2009
teams	16
venue	Twickenham
attendance2	54,899
champions	WAL Cardiff Blues
count	1
runner-up	ENG Gloucester
previous year	2007–08
previous tournament	2007–08 EDF Energy Cup
next year	2009–10
next tournament	2009–10 LV Cup

Wales | runner-up = ENG Gloucester

The 2008–09 Anglo-Welsh Cup, known as the EDF Energy Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 38th season of England's national rugby union 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 Guinness Premiership and the four Welsh regions from the Celtic League. 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

Isaacs 60' c Tovey 69' m Con: Tovey (2) Pen: Tovey (2) 6', 40' Phillips 44' c Con: Clegg (2)

Walker 47' c Con: Walker Pen: Walker (3) 17', 31', 70' Drop: Lamb 20' Haskell 38' m Pen: Staunton (2) 29', 51' Walder 77'

Con: Clegg Pen: Clegg (2) 2', 27' Rees 37' c Voyce 49' c Simpson 78' c Con: Cipriani (3)

Lawson 34' m Balshaw 67' m Con: Barkley Pen: Barkley 78' Webb 28' c Tovey 80' m Con: Connor Pen: Connor 46'

Group B

Con: Kydd Pen: Kydd 52' Con: Hougaard Pen: Hougaard (3) 7', 15', 60' Drop: Hougaard 70'

Pen: Macleod (4) 2', 32', 44', 53' Mustoe 74' m Con: Blair Pen: Blair 29' Sweeney 58'

Con: Hodgson Pen: Hodgson (3) 2', 9', 49' Hape 52' c Stephenson 56' c Con: Cuthbert (3) Pen: Cuthbert 47'

Spice 79' c Con: Blair (2) Pen: Blair (3) 6', 14', 73'

Filise 69' m Con: Blair Pen: Blair (4) 10', 20', 55', 80' Higgins 74' c Con: Berne Pen: Cuthbert 3' Maddock 53'

Youngs 57' c Crane 80' c Con: Hougaard (2) Newby Pen: Hougaard (3) 11', 14', 77' Con: Macleod (2) Pen: Macleod (2) 45', 48'

Group C

Kitchener 30' m Crichton 76' m Con: Jones

Bowe 78' c Con: Hook Pen: Hook (4) 13', 23', 33', 62' Fuga 54' c Con: Luveniyali (2) Pen: Luveniyali (3) 29', 60', 65'

Amesbury 13' c McMillan 46' m Con: Jewell Hewat (2) 49' c, 78' c Thompstone 54' m Bailey 58' m Con: Hewat Hickey Pen: Geraghty 62'

Henson 39' m Williams 44' c Bowe 80+2' m Con: Hook Pen: Hook (5) 18', 28', 59', 63', 75' Con: Jones Pen: Jones (5) 14', 34', 42', 48', 70'

Group D

Dickson 23' m Ashton 48' c Mayor 55' c Con: Everitt (2) Pen: Everitt (2) 35', 79' Lilo 71' c Con: Ashwin

Cato 18' c Con: Ross (2) Pen: Ross 43' Meeuws 48' c Con: S. Jones (2) Pen: S. Jones (4) 24', 32', 40', 63'

Easterby 37' c Higgitt 63' c Con: S. Jones (3) Pen: S. Jones (2) 15', 49'

This was the Scarlets' last competitive match at Stradey Park, home to Llanelli RFC since 1879. The new Parc y Scarlets opened in November.

Rauluni 23' c Con: Ross Pen: Ross (6) 17', 26', 49', 61', 68', 80' Drop: Ross 40' Wilson 30' m Pen: Myler (3) 14', 20', 56'

Reihana 45' c Sean Lamont Con: Myler Pen: Myler (2) 23' 61' Stoddart 8' m Davies Pen: C. Thomas 17'

Semi-finals

Pen: Lamb (3) 5', 45', 72' Drop: Lamb 67'

Pen: Blair (2) 2', 72'

Final

Penalty try 73' c Con: Barkley James 37' m Blair (2) 66' c, 77' c Sweeney 68' c Shanklin 80' c Con: Blair (6) Pen: Blair 19'

Dean Ryan

WAL Dai Young

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