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2011–12 Heineken Cup

International rugby union competition

Field	Value
name	2011–12 Heineken Cup
imagesize	200px
caption	Official Logo
countries	England
France
Ireland
Italy
Scotland
Wales
tournament format	Round-robin and Knockout
date	11 November 2011 – 19 May 2012
teams	24
matches	79
attendance
tries	320
top point scorer	Johnny Sexton (Leinster)
(103 points)
top try scorer	Timoci Matanavou (Toulouse)
(8 tries)
venue	Twickenham, London
attendance2	81,774
champions	IRE Leinster
count	3
runner-up	IRE Ulster
website	https://web.archive.org/web/20080506141030/http://www.ercrugby.com/eng/
previous year	2010–11
previous tournament	2010–11 Heineken Cup
next year	2012–13
next tournament	2012–13 Heineken Cup

France Ireland Italy Scotland Wales (103 points) (8 tries) | runner-up = IRE Ulster

The 2011–12 Heineken Cup was the 17th season of the Heineken Cup, the annual rugby union European club competition for clubs from the top six nations in European rugby. The final was held at Twickenham on Saturday, 19 May 2012, kicking off at 5 pm (16:00 UTC).

Leinster lifted the Heineken Cup by defeating fellow Pro12 and Irish side Ulster 42–14. The victory gave Leinster their third Heineken Cup title in four years – a run of success unprecedented in the competition's history.

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: 3 teams, based on regular-season finish in the Celtic League
Wales: 3 teams, based on regular-season finish in the Celtic League
Italy and Scotland: 2 teams each, based on participation in the Celtic League (although there are only 2 from each nation)

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). Accordingly, Harlequins claimed the Challenge Cup winner's berth, and since Heineken Cup winners Leinster were already domestically qualified, the extra Irish berth went to Connacht.

England	France	Ireland	Wales	Italy	Scotland

Seeding

The seeding system was the same as in the 2010–11 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 English team).

The brackets show each team's European Rugby Club Ranking at the end of the 2010–11 season.

Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4
Ireland Leinster (1)	FRA Toulouse (2)	Ireland Munster (3)	WAL Cardiff Blues (4)
ENG Northampton (7)	FRA Clermont Auvergne (10)	WAL Ospreys (11)	ENG Bath (12)
Ireland Ulster (16)	ENG Saracens (17)	ENG Gloucester (18)	SCO Glasgow (20)
Ireland Connacht (25)	ITA Benetton Treviso (30)	FRA Castres (31)	FRA Montpellier (32)

Pool stage

The draw for the pool stage took place on 7 June 2011.

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-, fourth- and fifth-highest-scoring second-place teams parachute into the knockout stage
of the [European Challenge Cup](2011-12-amlin-challenge-cup).

Pool 1

Team	P	W	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	TB	LB	Pts
IRE Munster	6	6	0	14	10	+4	163	118	+45	1	0	25
WAL Scarlets	6	3	3	12	9	+3	119	124	−5	1	2	15
ENG Northampton Saints	6	2	4	18	16	+2	176	160	+16	2	2	12
FRA Castres	6	1	5	10	19	−9	111	167	−56	1	2	7

Pool 2

Team	P	W	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	TB	LB	Pts
SCO Edinburgh	6	5	1	17	11	+6	156	138	+18	2	0	22
WAL Cardiff Blues	6	5	1	9	5	+4	145	110	+35	0	1	21
FRA Racing Métro	6	1	5	13	19	−6	160	190	−30	1	4	9
ENG London Irish	6	1	5	7	11	−4	116	139	−23	1	4	9

Pool 3

Team	P	W	D	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	TB	LB	Pts
IRE Leinster	6	5	1	0	18	7	+11	172	88	+84	2	0	24
SCO Glasgow Warriors	6	2	1	3	8	12	−4	106	133	−27	0	2	12
ENG Bath	6	2	0	4	11	15	−4	122	151	−29	0	3	11
FRA Montpellier	6	1	2	3	8	11	−3	84	112	−28	0	2	10

Pool 4

Team	P	W	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	TB	LB	Pts
FRA Clermont Auvergne	6	4	2	26	5	+21	215	69	+146	2	2	20
IRE Ulster	6	4	2	16	8	+8	158	87	+71	3	1	20
ENG Leicester Tigers	6	4	2	13	8	+5	123	117	+6	1	0	17
ITA Aironi	6	0	6	4	38	−34	51	274	−223	0	0	0

Pool 5

Team	P	W	D	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	TB	LB	Pts
ENG Saracens	6	5	0	1	13	10	+3	145	107	+38	1	1	22
FRA Biarritz	6	3	0	3	18	7	+11	143	105	+38	3	3	18
WAL Ospreys	6	2	1	3	13	16	−3	142	147	−5	1	2	13
ITA Benetton Treviso	6	1	1	4	12	23	−11	122	193	−71	0	0	6

Pool 6

Team	P	W	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	TB	LB	Pts
FRA Toulouse	6	4	2	16	11	+5	150	105	+45	1	1	18
ENG Harlequins	6	4	2	11	7	+4	122	94	+28	0	1	17
ENG Gloucester	6	3	3	10	12	−2	111	122	−11	1	2	15
IRE Connacht	6	1	5	5	12	−7	68	130	−62	0	2	6

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	IRE Munster	25	14	+45
2	IRE Leinster	24	18	+84
3	SCO Edinburgh	22	17	+18
4	ENG Saracens	22	13	+38
5	FRA Clermont Auvergne	20	26	+146
6	FRA Toulouse	18	16	+45
7	WAL Cardiff Blues	21	9	+35
8	IRE Ulster	20	16	+71
5C	FRA Biarritz	18	18	+42
6C	ENG Harlequins	17	11	+28
7C	WAL Scarlets	15	12	−5
-	SCO Glasgow Warriors	12	12	−27

Knock-out stages

Quarter-finals

Kearney (2) 30' c, 41' c O'Driscoll 34' c

Semi-finals

Sexton (0/1)

Final

Main article: 2012 Heineken Cup Final

Healy 31' c penalty try 44' c van der Merwe 76' m Cronin 80' c McFadden (1/2)

References

(18 May 2011). "ERC : Finals : Twickenham 2012". Ercrugby.com.
(17 May 2010). "ERC : News : Heineken Cup 2011 and 2012 Finals". Ercrugby.com.
(7 June 2011). "Teams learn 2011/2012 Heineken Cup pool stages fate". BBC Sport.
Palmer, Bryn. (19 May 2012). "Heineken Cup final: Leinster beat Ulster to retain trophy". BBC Sport.
(13 August 2010). "ERC : Heineken Cup : Rules : Qualification Process". Ercrugby.com.
"ERC : European Qualification : England". Ercrugby.com.
"ERC : European Qualification : France". Ercrugby.com.
"ERC : European Qualification : Celtic Countries". Ercrugby.com.
(7 June 2011). "Heineken Cup Pool Draw". European Rugby Cup.
"Key Tournament Rules". European Rugby Cup.

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