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Premiership clubs qualify for Europe's two main club competitions, the European Rugby Champions Cup and the European Rugby Challenge Cup. The winner of the second division, the RFU Championship is promoted to the Premiership and until 2020, the team finishing at the bottom of the Premiership each season was relegated to the Championship.
The Premiership Rugby Cup is an English rugby union knockout cup competition for teams in Premiership Rugby and from the 2023–24 season the RFU Championship. It was created in 2018 to replace the Anglo-Welsh Cup after the withdrawal of the Welsh regions .
The European Rugby Champions Cup is an annual rugby union competition for European clubs whose countries compete in the Six Nations Championship.Introduced in 2014, the competition replaced the Heineken Cup, which had been run by European Rugby Cup (ERC) since 1995, following disagreements between its shareholders over the structure and governance of the competition.
Premiership; Champions (11): 1988, ... 2024–25 European Rugby Champions Cup pool stage, 19 January 2025) Other match records. Highest scoring draw: ...
The following Saracens players were named in the Premiership Immortals XV, a team of 15 players selected by BT Sport rugby union commentators and former England internationals Lawrence Dallaglio, Austin Healey, Ben Kay and Ugo Monye in May 2023, to celebrate 20 years of Premiership Finals.
Championship Rugby; Current season, competition or edition: 2024–25 RFU Championship: Sport: Rugby union: Founded: 1987; 38 years ago () Administrator: RFU: No. of teams: 12: Countries England: Most recent champion(s) Ealing Trailfinders (2nd title) Most titles: Bristol Bears (4 titles) Level on pyramid: Level 2: Promotion to: Premiership ...
For the 2015–16 season, there was a three-team play-off; the seventh-placed team in the English Premiership, or the winners of the 2014–15 European Rugby Challenge Cup if members of the English Premiership and not already qualified, would play the eighth-placed (or highest non-qualified) team from the Pro14, with the winner playing the ...
As in previous seasons, the top four teams in the Premiership table, following the conclusion of the regular season, contest the play-off semi-finals in a 1st vs 4th and 2nd vs 3rd format, with the higher ranking team having home advantage. The two winners of the semi-finals then meet in the Premiership Final at Twickenham on 18 June 2022.