The 2005–06 Powergen Anglo-Welsh Cup was the 35th annual

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cup competition in England, and the first since it incorporated the four Welsh regional sides to become the

Anglo-Welsh Cup The Anglo-Welsh Cup (), was a cross-border rugby union knock-out cup competition that featured the 12 Premiership Rugby clubs and the four Welsh regions. It was a created as a replacement for the RFU Knockout Cup, which featured only English clubs ...

. Whereas the competition previously featured teams from the lower levels of the English rugby pyramid, this season it was contested by the 12 teams from the English Premiership and the four Welsh regional sides from the

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. The competition began with a pool stage, in which each pool consisted of a Welsh region and three English sides, with each team playing the others in the group once. Pool matches were played in September, October and December 2005. The team that finished top of each pool advanced to the semi-finals. The semi-finals were played at the

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in Cardiff on 4 March 2006, and the final was played at

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in London on 9 April. London Wasps beat

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22–17 in their semi-final, while

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beat

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27–26 in theirs; Wasps then beat the Scarlets 26–10 in the final.

Group stages

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Semi-finals

Final

Notes

External links

Powergen Cup
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Group stages

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Semi-finals

Final

Notes

See also

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