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2010–11 Heineken Cup

Annual rugby union European club competition

Field	Value
name	2010–11 Heineken Cup
imagesize	200px
caption	Official Logo
countries	England
France
Ireland
Italy
Scotland
Wales
tournament format	Round-robin and Knockout
date	8 October 2010 – 21 May 2011
teams	24
matches	79
attendance	1139427
top point scorer	IRE Johnny Sexton (Leinster)
(138 points)
top try scorer	ENG Paul Diggin (Northampton)
(6 tries)
venue	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
attendance2	72,456
champions	IRE Leinster
count	2
runner-up	ENG Northampton
website	https://web.archive.org/web/20080506141030/http://www.ercrugby.com/eng/
previous year	2009–10
previous tournament	2009–10 Heineken Cup
next year	2011–12
next tournament	2011–12 Heineken Cup

France Ireland Italy Scotland Wales (138 points) (6 tries) | runner-up = ENG Northampton

The 2010–11 Heineken Cup was the 16th season of the Heineken Cup, the annual rugby union European club competition for clubs from the top six nations in European rugby. It started with three matches on 8 October 2010 and ended on 21 May 2011 with the final at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium where Leinster beat Northampton Saints 33 – 22.

Teams

The default allocation of teams is as follows:

England: 6 teams, based on performance in the Aviva Premiership and Anglo-Welsh Cup
France: 6 teams, based on regular-season finish in the Top 14
Ireland and Wales: 3 teams each, based on regular-season finish in the Celtic League
Italy and Scotland: 2 teams each, based on participation in the Celtic League

The remaining two places are filled by the winners of the previous year's Heineken Cup and Amlin Challenge Cup. If the cup winners are already qualified through their domestic league, an additional team from their country will claim a Heineken Cup place (assuming another team is available). The only exception is when teams from England or France win both cups, which did not happen in 2009–10.

Because 2010 Heineken Cup winners Toulouse were already qualified for this season's Heineken Cup by virtue of their fourth-place regular-season finish in the 2009–10 Top 14, the extra place for France went to seventh-placed Biarritz (who were also Toulouse's defeated opponent in the Heineken Cup Final). Because Amlin Challenge Cup winners Cardiff Blues were already qualified for the Heineken Cup by finishing second among the four Welsh teams in the 2009–10 Celtic League, the extra Welsh place went to the lowest-placed Welsh team in the league, Scarlets.

England	France	Wales	Ireland	Italy	Scotland

Seeding

The seeding system was the same as in the 2009–10 tournament. The 24 competing teams are ranked based on past Heineken Cup and European Challenge Cup performance, with each pool receiving one team from each quartile, or Tier. The requirement to have only one team per country in each pool, however, still applies (with the exception of the inclusion of the seventh French team).

The brackets show each team's European Rugby Club Ranking at the end of the 2009–10 season. Aironi inherited the ranking of Viadana, the principal shareholders in the new Celtic League team.

Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4
Ireland Munster (1)	FRA Toulouse (2)	Ireland Leinster (3)	ENG Leicester Tigers (4)
ENG London Wasps (7)	FRA Clermont (9)	WAL Ospreys (10)	ENG Northampton Saints (11)
FRA Perpignan (15)	ENG London Irish (16)	ENG Saracens (17)	Ireland Ulster (19)
WAL Newport Gwent Dragons (24)	ITA Benetton Treviso (28)	FRA Castres (29)	FRA Toulon (30)

Pool stage

The draw for the pool stage took place on 8 June 2010.

Under rules of the competition organiser, European Rugby Cup, tiebreakers within each pool are as follows.

Competition points earned in head-to-head matches
Total tries scored in head-to-head matches
Point differential in head-to-head matches

ERC has four additional tiebreakers, used if tied teams are in different pools, or if the above steps cannot break a tie between teams in the same pool:

Tries scored in all pool matches
Point differential in all pool matches
Best disciplinary record (fewest players receiving red or yellow cards in all pool matches)
Coin toss

	Third- through fifth- highest-scoring second-place teams parachute into the knockout stage
of the [European Challenge Cup](2010-11-amlin-challenge-cup). Seed # in brackets

Pool 1

Team	P	W	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	TB	LB	Pts
ENG Northampton Saints (1)	6	6	0	16	7	+9	155	87	+68	1	0	25
WAL Cardiff Blues	6	3	3	6	8	−2	107	113	−6	0	2	14
FRA Castres	6	2	4	10	12	−2	105	115	−10	0	3	11
SCO Edinburgh	6	1	5	10	15	−5	98	150	−52	0	4	8

Pool 2

Team	P	W	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	TB	LB	Pts
IRE Leinster (2)	6	5	1	21	9	+12	179	104	+75	3	1	24
FRA Clermont [6]	6	4	2	14	9	+5	114	94	+20	2	1	19
FRA Racing Métro	6	2	4	9	17	−8	104	151	−47	0	1	9
ENG Saracens	6	1	5	9	18	−9	107	155	−48	0	2	6

Pool 3

Team	P	W	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	TB	LB	Pts
FRA Toulon (6)	6	4	2	13	13	0	143	134	+9	1	0	17
IRE Munster [7]	6	3	3	17	9	+8	143	122	+21	2	2	16
WAL Ospreys	6	3	3	7	11	−4	117	113	+4	0	2	14
ENG London Irish	6	2	4	9	13	−4	107	141	−34	0	1	9

Pool 4

Team	P	W	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	TB	LB	Pts
FRA Biarritz (4)	6	4	2	16	9	+7	140	85	+55	4	2	22
IRE Ulster (8)	6	5	1	15	8	+7	145	93	+52	2	0	22
ENG Bath	6	2	4	20	8	+12	147	108	+39	2	4	14
ITA Aironi	6	1	5	4	30	−26	65	211	−146	0	0	4

Pool 5

Team	P	W	D	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	TB	LB	Pts
FRA Perpignan (3)	6	4	1	1	23	9	+14	196	112	+84	4	0	22
ENG Leicester Tigers (7)	6	4	1	1	25	10	+15	215	118	+97	3	1	22
WAL Scarlets	6	3	0	3	16	24	−8	149	191	−42	3	0	15
ITA Benetton Treviso	6	0	0	6	11	32	−21	109	248	−139	0	1	1

Pool 6

Team	P	W	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	TB	LB	Pts
FRA Toulouse (5)	6	5	1	15	6	+10	155	85	+70	1	1	22
ENG London Wasps [5]	6	4	2	15	6	+8	145	106	+59	2	1	19
SCO Glasgow Warriors	6	3	3	10	15	−5	116	141	−25	0	0	12
WAL Newport Gwent Dragons	6	0	6	5	18	−13	77	161	−84	0	2	2

Seeding and runners-up

Bare numbers indicate Heineken Cup quarterfinal seeding.
Numbers with "C" indicate Challenge Cup quarterfinal seeding.

Seed	Pool Winners	Pts	TF	+/−
1	ENG Northampton Saints	25	16	+68
2	IRE Leinster	24	21	+75
3	FRA Perpignan	22	23	+84
4	FRA Biarritz	22	16	+55
5	FRA Toulouse	22	15	+70
6	FRA Toulon	17	11	+21
7	ENG Leicester Tigers	22	25	+97
8	IRE Ulster	22	15	+52
5C	ENG London Wasps	19	15	+39
6C	FRA Clermont	19	14	+20
7C	IRE Munster	16	17	+21
–	WAL Cardiff Blues	14	6	−6

Knockout stage

The semi-final draw for both the Heineken Cup and Amlin Challenge Cup was conducted on 23 January at the press box of Adams Park in High Wycombe shortly after the London Wasps–Toulouse match.

All times are local times.

Quarter-finals

Freshwater 73' c van Niekerk 53' c Cibray 80'+1' c

Dickson 55' c

Médard 26' c Nyanga 99' c Bézy (1/1)

Semi-finals

O'Driscoll 59' c Picamoles 43' c Bézy (1/1) 75'

Clarke 30' c

Final

Main article: 2011 Heineken Cup Final

Foden 30' c Hartley 39' m Hines 64' c

Individual statistics

Top points scorers

Final Standings (correct as of 21 May 2011)

Pos	Player	Team	Points
1	IRE Johnny Sexton	IRE Leinster	138
2	ENG Stephen Myler	ENG Northampton Saints	101
3	FRA David Skrela	FRA Toulouse	94
4	FRA Jérôme Porical	FRA Perpignan	86
5	FRA Dimitri Yachvili	FRA Biarritz	80
6	IRE Ian Humphreys	IRE Ulster	72
7	SCO Ruaridh Jackson	SCO Glasgow Warriors	71
8	ENG Dave Walder	ENG London Wasps	70
ENG Jonny Wilkinson	FRA Toulon	70
10	ENG Toby Flood	ENG Leicester Tigers	67

Top try scorers

Final Standings (Correct as of 21 May 2011)

Pos	Player	Team	Tries
1	ENG Paul Diggin	ENG Northampton Saints	6
2	ENG Matt Banahan	ENG Bath	5
ITA Tommaso Benvenuti	ITA Benetton Treviso	5
ENG Tom Biggs	ENG Bath	5
FRA Thierry Dusautoir	FRA Toulouse	5
USA Takudzwa Ngwenya	FRA Biarritz	5
IRE Johnny Sexton	IRE Leinster	5
8	ENG Ben Foden	ENG Northampton Saints	4
IRE Seán O'Brien	IRE Leinster	4
IRE Andrew Trimble	IRE Ulster	4
SAM Alesana Tuilagi	ENG Leicester Tigers	4
ENG Tom Varndell	ENG London Wasps	4

References

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(22 May 2011). "Shock turns to awe as Leinster join immortals". Irish Independent.
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