Crescent Cup

Crescent Cup

Current season or competition: 2015 Crescent Cup
Sport	Rugby union
Instituted	2015
Number of teams	6
Regions	Intercontinental (World Rugby)
Holders	Malaysia (2015)
Most titles	Malaysia (1 title)
Website	CrescentCupRugbyChampionship.com [ usurped ]

The Crescent Cup, or the Islamic Nations Rugby Championship, is a men's rugby union tournament, organised by World Rugby and the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation and featuring teams from the Muslim world. The inaugural tournament was held in Malaysia in 2015. It was co-organised with the Malaysia Rugby Union. The hosts Malaysia are the current champions, having defeated Algeria in the final. ^[1]

Although the tournament has been retrospectively described as 'inaugural', as of March 2016 no further tournaments have been announced.

Results

Tournaments

Year	Host(s)		Final				Bronze Final				Number of teams
			Winner	Score	Runner-up		3rd place	Score	4th place
2015	Malaysia		Malaysia	19–11	Algeria		Kazakhstan	35–25	Lebanon		5

Team records

Team	Champions	Runners-up	Third	Fourth
Malaysia	1 (2015)
Algeria		1 (2015)
Kazakhstan			1 (2015)
Lebanon				1 (2015)

Performance of nations

For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown.

Team	2015 (5)
Algeria	2nd
Iran	•
Kazakhstan	3rd
Lebanon	4th
Malaysia	1st
Uzbekistan	R1 5th

Legend

1st— Champions 2nd— Runners-up 3rd— Third place 4th— Fourth place

R1 — Round 1 (pool stage)  • — withdrew   — Hosts

References

1. "Rugby (finale de la Crescent Cup) : défaite de l'Algérie face à la Malaisie". TSA Algérie. Samy Bechiri. June 14, 2015. Archived from the original on October 5, 2015.

External links

• Official website ^{[ usurped ]}