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The United Rugby Championship (URC) is an annual rugby union competition involving professional teams from Ireland, Italy, Scotland, South Africa, and Wales. For sponsorship reasons the league is known as the Vodacom United Rugby Championship in South Africa, and the BKT United Rugby Championship in the competition's other territories, the split branding mirroring the format previously adopted ...
The final Champions Cup place was therefore to be taken by either Benetton (7th) or Ospreys (8th). If Ospreys won the URC outright, they will take the final berth in the Champions Cup as URC Champion. Any other result would mean Benetton qualify for the Champions Cup in 2024–25. Osprey's quarter final defeat confirmed Benetton Rugby in the ...
Yellow background indicates the team that won the 2024–25 European Challenge Cup and thus qualify for the 2025–26 European Champions Cup, but are not in a play-off place Plain background indicates teams that earn a place in the 2025–26 European Challenge Cup. Q: qualified for play-offs. H: home field advantage secured for quarter-and semi ...
The same will apply if a URC team wins the 2022-2023 Champions Cup or Challenge Cup and qualifies for the 2023-2024 Champions Cup without having qualified by its league position. [8] Priority order for European Champions Cup Qualification is therefore : 2022–23 United Rugby Championship champion
Having qualified for a last-16 tie against Bordeaux in the Champions Cup after beating Exeter last weekend, Ulster's attention now turns back to the URC, beginning with a game against Zebre at ...
The 2024 United Rugby Championship final was the final match of the 2023–24 United Rugby Championship (URC) season. It was contested by the Bulls from South Africa and Scotland's Glasgow Warriors. [3] Glasgow won the match 21–16, coming back from 13–0 down just before half-time to claim their second URC title.
The Stormers, the defending champions after they won the first United Rugby Championship in 2021–22, by contrast enjoyed a strong season, finishing third overall and defeating South African rivals the Bulls 33–21 in their quarter-final [6] and Connacht 43–25 in the semi-finals to advance to a home final for a second season in a row. [7]
Sale and URC champions Glasgow are in Pool 4 of the competition with Harlequins, Racing 92, Stormers and Toulon. ... head coach Franco Smith is welcoming the chance for his side to be "measured ...