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2011–12 Heineken Cup pool stage

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The 2011–12 Heineken Cup pool stage was the first stage of the 17th season of the Heineken Cup, Europe's top competition for rugby union clubs. It involved 24 teams competing for eight quarter-final berths, awarded to the winners of each of six pools plus the two top-ranked second-place teams. The nest three best runners-up were parachuted into the Amlin Challenge Cup.

The pool stage began with two matches on the evening of 11 November 2011, and ended on Sunday 22 January 2012. The quarter-finalists then participates in a knockout tournament that ultimately ended with the final on Saturday 19 May at Twickenham Stadium in London.

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 Saints (7)	FRA Clermont Auvergne (10)	WAL Ospreys (11)	ENG Bath (12)
Ireland Ulster (16)	ENG Saracens (17)	ENG Gloucester (18)	SCO Glasgow Warriors (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. Competition organiser European Rugby Cup (ERC) announced the fixtures, dates, and kickoff times for the first four rounds of pool play on 20 July 2011.

Under ERC rules, 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](2011-12-european-challenge-cup).

All kickoff times are local to the match location.

Pool 1

Team	P	W	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	TB	LB	Pts
IRE Munster [1]	6	6	0	14	10	+4	163	118	+45	1	0	25
WAL Scarlets (7)	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

Morgan 50' c J. Davies 73' m Priestland (1/1) 80' Masoe 78' c Howlett 40' c Downey 56' m

Wood 79' c Shingler 19' c Gilbert 38' c Priestland 62' c Lakafia 35' c O'Mahony 44' c Chambers 66' c

S. Jones (1/1) 68' Martial (2) 40' c, 68' c Diarra 77' m Elliott (2) 31' m, 44' m Manoa 55' m

Priestland (1/2) 56' Artemyev 66' c Haywood 70' c Tonks 77' m

Foden 78' c Lamb (1/1) du Preez 67' c

Armstrong 79' c Myler (1/1) Murphy 42' c Zebo (3) 48' m, 71' c, 76' c Keatley (1/1) Shingler 58' m S. Jones (1/2) 77'

Pool 2

Team	P	W	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	TB	LB	Pts
SCO Edinburgh [3]	6	5	1	17	11	+6	156	138	+18	2	0	22
WAL Cardiff Blues [7]	6	5	1	9	5	+4	145	110	+35	0	1	21
ENG London Irish	6	1	5	7	11	−4	116	139	−23	1	4	9
FRA Racing Métro	6	1	5	13	19	−6	160	190	−30	1	4	9

Cuthbert 36' c McInally 59' c Laidlaw (1/1) Laidlaw (1/1) 68'

L. Williams 39' m Laidlaw 8' c Talei 63' c Brown 68' c Grant 73' c Imhoff 15' c Wisniewski 22' c Chavancy (2) 31' c, 47' c Wisniewski (4/4)

Ansbro 53' c Thompstone (2) 56' c, 72' c Jarvis (1/2) 42'

Halfpenny (1/1) 79'

Imhoff 41' c Battut 54' c Descons (1/1) Talei 28' c Denton 47' c Armitage (1/1) 53'

Cuthbert (2) 30' c, 41' c Bobo 33' c Descons (2/3) 24', 49' Steyn (2/2) 40', 60' Thompson 35' c Talei 71' c Jones 77' c

Pool 3

Team	P	W	D	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	TB	LB	Pts
IRE Leinster [2]	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

Trinh-Duc (1/1) 56' Gray 80' c Donald (1/1) 78'

O'Malley (2) 25' c, 30' c D'Arcy 39' c Boss 80' c Madigan (1/1) Flatman 17' m

Jackson (1/1) 67' Matadigo 80' m

Weir (1/2) 77' Fitzgerald (2) 24' c, 41' c Sexton 32' c Reddan 50' c Ruddock 56' c Madigan 77' c Nacewa (1/1) Attwood 74' c Williams 80' c

Tulou 66' c Nagusa 80' c Bustos Moyano (1/1) Banahan 71' m Heathcote (1/2) Boss 70' c McFadden (2/2) 40', 55'

Skirving 43' c Harley 62' m R. Kearney 15' c Healy 41' m

Pool 4

Team	P	W	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	TB	LB	Pts
FRA Clermont Auvergne [5]	6	4	2	26	5	+21	215	69	+146	2	2	20
IRE Ulster [8]	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

A. Tuilagi 22' c Morris 80' m

Vosloo 18' c James 34' c Bonnaire 50' c Bardy 53' c Buttin 57' m Fofana 70' c Malzieu 75' c James (3/4)

D'Arcy 40' m Trimble 42' m Marshall 56' c Jackson 68' c Fofana (2) 52' c, 65' c penalty try 70' c

Salvi 47' c Parra (1/1) 14' Quartaroli 60' m Biagi 74' m penalty try 22' c Court 37' c Gilroy 69' c Diack 77' c Macklin 80' m Pienaar (2/3)

Gilroy 69' c P. Marshall 72' c Byrne (2) 20' m, 40' c Lapandry (2) 24' c, 45' c Malzieu (3) 32' c, 71' c, 78' c James 34' c Vermeulen 47' c James (7/7)

Woods 47' c Murphy 55' m Ford 70' c Ford (1/1)

Pool 5

Team	P	W	D	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	TB	LB	Pts
ENG Saracens [4]	6	5	0	1	13	10	+3	145	107	+38	1	1	23
FRA Biarritz (5)	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	1	7

Strettle 46' c Wyles 60' m Joubert 64' c Smit 77' c Padro 79' c

Ngwenya 64' c de Jager 47' m Botes 57' m Ry. Jones 53' c Morgan (1/1) 79'

Barbieri 20' c Van Zyl 31' c Bosch 37' c Traille 58' c Lesgourgues 63' c Peyrelongue (2/2) Joubert 14' c Wyles 45' m

Haylett-Petty 51' m Lauret 72' c Heguy 79' c

Beck (2) 18' m, 31' c penalty try (2) 45' c, 77' c Fotuali'i 68' m Morgan (1/2) Padro 50' c Botes (1/1)

Iannone 20' c Strettle 41' c Baby 51' m Balshaw 58' c

Pool 6

Team	P	W	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	TB	LB	Pts
FRA Toulouse [6]	6	4	2	16	11	+5	150	105	+45	1	1	18
ENG Harlequins (6)	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

Duffy 57' c O'Connor (1/1) Poitrenaud 72' c Beauxis (1/1) 65' Trinder 68' c

Hopper 39' m Easter 72' c penalty try 46' c Nyanga 76' c

May 75' c Burns (1/1) Burns (2/2) 57', 68' Doussain 69' m Doussain (3/4) 45', 48', 60' Gray 22' c

Médard 34' m Picamoles 46' c Brown 73' c

Qera 27' c Sharples 46' c Matanavou (2) 16' c, 64' c

References

(7 June 2011). "Heineken Cup Pool Draw". European Rugby Cup.
(20 July 2011). "Leinster face demanding away trip in Heineken Cup round 1". European Rugby Cup.
"Key Tournament Rules". European Rugby Cup.

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