2015 European Rugby Champions Cup

The 2015 European Rugby Champions Cup will be the second season of the premier club rugby competition in Europe. It replaced the Heineken Cup.

There will be 20 teams playing in the competition, the top 6 teams from the English Premiership, the top 6 teams from the French Top 14, 7 teams from the Pro 12 and a qualifier from the next best placed teams from the 3 competitions.

The Pro 12 qualifiers are the 4 best placed teams from each country and the 3 highest placed teams after that.

Teams play in 5 pools of 4 teams and will play each team in their pool twice, home and away.

Following pool play, the top team from each pool and the best 3 runners-up will progress to the play-offs: quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final.



In 2015 the qualifier was determined by a play-off between the winner of the 2014 Challenge Cup and the highest placed Pro 12 team not already qualified, followed by the winner of that game playing off against the 7th placed team from the Top 14. Those games were played in May 2015.

May 24

May 24

Gloucester

Gloucester

v

v

Connacht

Bordeaux Bègles

Gloucester

Worcester

40

22

32

23

Bordeaux Bègles won the play-off and will take up the last remaining position in the 2015 European Rugby Champions Cup.



The teams playing in the competition are:

England

  • Saracens
  • Northampton Saints
  • Leicester Tigers
  • Bath
  • Wasps
  • Exeter Chiefs

France

  • Toulon
  • Clermont Auvergne
  • Racing 92
  • Toulouse
  • Oyonnax
  • Bordeaux Bègles
  • Stade Français


Ireland

  • Leinster
  • Munster
  • Ulster

Scotland

  • Glasgow Warriors

Wales

  • Ospreys
  • Scarlets

Italy

  • Benetton Treviso


Champions Cup Cup
Pool 1
Team Played Won Lost Drawn For Against BP Points
Saracens 6 6 220 73 4 28
Ulster 6 4 2 169 109 2 18
Oyonnax 6 1 5 99 218 3 7
Toulouse 6 1 5 85 173 1 5
Pool 2
Team Played Won Lost Drawn For Against BP Points
Exeter Chiefs 6 3 3 148 151 4 16
Bordeaux Bègles 6 3 3 149 163 4 16
Ospreys 6 3 3 138 142 4 16
Clermont Auvergne 6 3 3 159 138 3 15
Pool 3
Team Played Won Lost Drawn For Against BP Points
Racing 92 6 4 1 1 174 70 4 22
Northampton Saints 6 4 1 1 94 93 1 19
Glasgow Warriors 6 3 3 114 96 2 14
Scarlets 6 6 59 182 2 2
Pool 4
Team Played Won Lost Drawn For Against BP Points
Leicester Tigers 6 5 1 185 91 3 23
Stade Français 6 4 2 186 118 3 19
Munster 6 3 3 118 100 3 15
Benetton Treviso 6 6 53 233 0
Pool 5
Team Played Won Lost Drawn For Against BP Points
Wasps 6 4 2 186 72 4 20
Toulon 6 5 1 96 91 20
Bath 6 2 4 88 131 2 10
Leinster 6 1 5 82 158 2 6


Fixtures and Results

November 13

November 14





November 15





November 20

November 21






November 22




December 11

December 12






December 13




December 18

December 19






December 20




January 8

January 9


January 10



January 15

January 16





January 17





January 23






January 24

Leicester Tigers

Oyonnax

Racing 92

Saracens

Munster

Northampton Saints

Leinster

Bordeaux Bègles

Toulon

Ospreys


Ulster

Benetton Treviso

Bath

Toulouse

Glasgow Warriors

Scarlets

Exeter Chiefs

Clermont Auvergne

Stade Français

Wasps


Ulster

Glasgow Warriors

Racing 92

Benetton Treviso

Exeter Chiefs

Ospreys

Munster

Oyonnax

Toulon

Wasps


Northampton Saints

Saracens

Bath

Stade Français

Leinster

Bordeaux Bègles

Scarlets

Toulouse

Clermont Auvergne

Leicester Tigers


Bordeaux Bègles

Racing 92

Stade Français

Oyonnax

Toulon


Ospreys

Munster

Bordeaux Bègles

Saracens

Oyonnax

Leinster

Leicester Tigers

Racing 92

Toulon

Northampton Saints


Toulouse

Ulster

Bath

Wasps

Glasgow Warriors

Scarlets

Benetton Treviso

Stade Français

Clermont Auvergne

Exeter Chiefs

v

v

v

v

v

v

v

v

v

v


v

v

v

v

v

v

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v

v


v

v

v

v

v

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v

v

v


v

v

v

v

v

v

v

v

v

v


v

v

v

v

v


v

v

v

v

v

v

v

v

v

v


v

v

v

v

v

v

v

v

v

v


Stade Français

Ulster

Glasgow Warriors

Toulouse

Benetton Treviso

Scarlets

Wasps

Clermont Auvergne

Bath

Exeter Chiefs


Saracens

Leicester Tigers

Leinster

Oyonnax

Northampton Saints

Racing 92

Bordeaux Bègles

Ospreys

Munster

Toulon


Toulouse

Scarlets

Northampton Saints

Stade Français

Clermont Auvergne

Bordeaux Bègles

Leicester Tigers

Saracens

Leinster

Bath


Racing 92

Oyonnax

Wasps

Benetton Treviso

Toulon

Ospreys

Glasgow Warriors

Ulster

Exeter Chiefs

Munster


Clermont Auvergne

Glasgow Warriors

Munster

Ulster

Bath


Clermont Auvergne

Stade Français

Exeter Chiefs

Ulster

Toulouse

Bath

Benetton Treviso

Scarlets

Wasps

Glasgow Warriors


Saracens

Oyonnax

Toulon

Leinster

Racing 92

Northampton Saints

Munster

Leicester Tigers

BordeauxBègles

Ospreys

Leicester

Oyonnax

Paris

London

Limerick

Northampton

Dublin

Bordeaux

Toulon

Swansea


Belfast

Treviso

Bath

Toulouse

Glasgow

Llanelli

Exeter

Clermont Ferrand

Paris

Coventry


Belfast

Glasgow

Paris

Treviso

Exeter

Swansea

Limerick

Oyonnax

Toulon

Coventry


Northampton

London

Bath

Paris

Dublin

Bordeaux

Llanelli

Toulouse

Clermont Ferrand

Leicester


Bordeaux

Paris

Paris

Oyonnax

Toulon


Swansea

Limerick

Bordeaux

London

Oyonnax

Dublin

Leicester

Paris

Toulon

Northampton


Toulouse

Belfast

Bath

Coventry

Glasgow

Llanelli

Treviso

Paris

Clermont Ferrand

Exeter

33

P

P

32

32

15

6

P

P

25


9

3

19

24

15

12

34

34

P

32


38

43

33

17

31

19

19

10

24

23


9

55

10

40

16

33

6

23

42

17


10

34

27

23

12


21

26

34

33

32

25

47

64

15

19


17

56

14

51

22

10

5

36

28

33

20

P

P

7

7

11

33

P

P

13


27

36

16

18

26

29

19

29

P

6


0

6

3

50

14

16

31

45

9

25


9

13

36

14

20

27

9

25

10

6


28

10

7

24

9


13

13

27

17

14

11

7

14

11

15


28

3

19

10

5

22

28

21

37

17

5 matches were postponed in November due to terrorist attacks in Paris. These games were played in January.



April 9


April 10




April 23

April 24


May 14

Quarter - Finals

Wasps

Saracens

Leicester Tigers

Racing 92


Semi - Finals

Saracens

Leicester Tigers

Final

Saracens


v

v

v

v



v

v


v


       

Exeter Chiefs

Northampton Saints

Stade Français

Toulon

         

        

Wasps

Racing 92

          

Racing 92


Coventry

London

Leicester

Paris



Reading

Nottingham


Lyon


25

29

41

19



24

16


21


24

20

13

16



17

19


9

 

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