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| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host |  New Zealand |
| Date | 2–20 June 2014 |
| Teams | 12 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  England |
| Runner-up |  South Africa |
| Third place | New Zealand |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 30 |
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The 2014 IRB Junior World Championship was the seventh annual international rugby union competition for Under 20 national teams. The event was organised in Auckland, New Zealand by rugby's governing body, World Rugby, then known as the International Rugby Board.[1][n 1] A total of 12 nations took part in the tournament. England went into the tournament as defending champions, after winning the tournament for the first time in 2013. England went on to win the Championship for a second time in two years. While hosts New Zealand, the most successful team in the tournament, were looking to win the title for the first time since 2011.
Italy were the champions of the 2013 IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy, thus being promoted to the Championship. Fiji finished last in 2014 and therefore were relegated to the World Rugby Under 20 Trophy for 2015.
This was the final event to be known as the "IRB Junior World Championship". Following the renaming of the governing body as World Rugby, the Championship was renamed the World Rugby Under 20 Championship, and the second-tier competition was renamed from "IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy" to World Rugby U20 Trophy.
- ^ "New Zealand and Italy to host JWC 2014 & 2015". irb.com. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
- ^ "IRB to change name to World Rugby" (Press release). International Rugby Board. 28 August 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-09-03. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
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