The 2018 Rugby League European Championship B (also known as Euro B) was ninth edition of the Rugby League European Championship B and acted as the second phase of European qualifying to the 2021 Rugby League World Cup. The series involved three teams in pool play and took place in October 2018. The two highest ranked teams, Russia and Spain, advanced to the European play-off. In August 2019, Russia withdrew from the play-off tournament and were replaced by Serbia.
Standings
Fixtures
Team details FB 9Luc FrancoWG 2Dani MoralesCE 3Antonio PuertaCE 4Alex DoutresWG 5Hadriel Mehamed GonzalezFE 16Daniel GarciaHB 7Romain PallaresPR 8Carlos FontHK 1Chris LopezPR 10Adria AlonsoSR 11Anthony DelgadoSR 12Kevin AparicioLK 15Raul Simo (c)Interchange:BE 14Aitor RomeroBE 17Juan MudarraBE 18Rafael GarciaBE 19Miguel OlivaresCoach: Darren Fisher FB 1Iustin PetrushkaWG 2Ilia DanilovCE 3Igor AbramovCE 4Boris VoloskovWG 5Andrey LavrushinFE 6Aleksandr LysokonHB 7Denis TyulenevPR 8Sergei Konstantinov (c)HK 9Aleksandr NaumovPR 10Kirill BozhkoSR 11Dmitrii LeskovSR 12Vladislav LesnikovLK 13Ivan TroitskiiInterchange:BE 14Igor ChuprinBE 15Vyacheslav EreminBE 16Andrey PerinBE 17Dmitrii TarasenkovCoach: Denis Korolev
Serbia were without their Australian-based players, David Andjelić, Brandon Janjić, Jonathan Kress, and Ilija Radan, along with head coach Brett Davidson due to VISA issues. The Serbian Rugby League allege that Russia's Association of Rugby League Clubs did not provide the necessary paperwork for VISA removal.
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