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The 2024 European Rugby Champions Cup will be the 11th season of the premier club rugby competition in Europe. There will be 4 pools of 6 teams, with 4 rounds of pool play, with each team playing the other teams in their pool that were not from the same domestic league, 2 at home and 2 away. Qualification was based on team positions in their respective domestic leagues and the United Rugby Championship. The top 4 teams in each pool will qualify for the round of 16. The winners will move on to Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals and Final. The 5th ranked teams in each pool will join 12 teams from the European Challenge Cup and play a round of 16 in that competition. This will be knock-out format through to the final. |
The teams playing in the competition are:
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England
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France
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South Africa
Ireland
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Scotland
Italy
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The Sharks qualify as winners of the 2023 European Rugby Challenge Cup. They displace the Ospreys, the 8th placed URC team.
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World Rugby announced that from January 1 2025, 4 new Global Law Trials would be introduced. They would be used in the European Rugby Champions Cup after the first two rounds. The rules were:
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