2024–25 European Rugby Champions Cup

Not to be confused with 2024–25 EPCR Challenge Cup.

The 2024–25 European Rugby Champions Cup is the eleventh season of the European Rugby Champions Cup, the annual club rugby union competition run by European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) for professional clubs. It is the 30th season of the pan-European professional club rugby competition.

2024–25 European Rugby Champions Cup
Tournament details
Countries	England France Ireland Italy Scotland South Africa
Tournament statistics
Final
Venue	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff

The final will be played at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.

Teams

Twenty-four clubs from the three major European domestic and regional leagues will qualify to compete in the 2024–25 edition of the Champions Cup.

The distribution of teams is:

• England: eight clubs
  • The top eight clubs from Premiership Rugby
• France: eight clubs
  • The top eight clubs from the Top 14
• Ireland, Italy, Scotland, South Africa, Wales: eight clubs
  • The top eight sides from the United Rugby Championship. As the winner of the 2023–24 Challenge Cup, the Sharks will displace the eighth-placed side in the United Rugby Championship.

Premiership	Top 14	United Rugby Championship
England	France	Ireland	Italy	Scotland	South Africa
Bath Bristol Bears Exeter Chiefs Harlequins Leicester Tigers Northampton Saints Sale Sharks Saracens	Bordeaux Castres Clermont La Rochelle Racing 92 Stade Français Toulon Toulouse	Leinster Munster Ulster	Benetton	Glasgow Warriors	Bulls Sharks Stormers

Team details

Below is the list of coaches, captain and stadiums with their method of qualification for each team.

Note: Placing shown in brackets, denotes standing at the end of the regular season for their respective leagues, with their end of season positioning shown through CH for Champions, RU for Runner-up, SF for losing Semi-finalist, and QF for losing Quarter-finalist.

Team	Coach(es) / Director of Rugby	Captain(s)	Stadium	Capacity	Method of qualification
Bath	Johann van Graan		Recreation Ground	14,509	Premiership top 8 (2nd) (RU)
Benetton	Marco Bortolami		Stadio Comunale di Monigo	5,000	URC top 8 (7th) (QF)
Bordeaux	Yannick Bru		Stade Chaban-Delmas	34,694	Top 14 top 8 (3rd) (RU)
Bristol Bears	Pat Lam		Ashton Gate Stadium	27,000	Premiership top 8 (5th)
Bulls	Jake White		Loftus Versfeld Stadium	51,762	URC top 8 (2nd) (RU)
Castres	Jeremy Davidson		Stade Pierre-Fabre	12,500	Top 14 top 8 (7th)
Clermont	Christophe Urios		Stade Marcel-Michelin	19,022	Top 14 top 8 (8th)
Exeter Chiefs	Rob Baxter		Sandy Park	13,593	Premiership top 8 (7th)
Glasgow Warriors	Franco Smith		Scotstoun Stadium	7,351	URC top 8 (4th) (CH)
Harlequins	Billy Millard		Twickenham Stoop	14,800	Premiership top 8 (6th)
La Rochelle	Ronan O'Gara		Stade Marcel-Deflandre	16,700	Top 14 top 8 (5th) (SF)
Leicester Tigers	Michael Cheika		Welford Road Stadium	25,849	Premiership top 8 (8th)
Leinster	Leo Cullen		RDS Arena	18,500	URC top 8 (3rd) (SF)
Munster	Graham Rowntree		Thomond Park	25,600	URC top 8 (1st) (SF)
Northampton Saints	Phil Dowson		Franklin's Gardens	15,200	Premiership top 8 (1st) (CH)
Racing 92	Stuart Lancaster		Paris La Défense Arena	32,000	Top 14 top 8 (6th) (QF)
Sale Sharks	Alex Sanderson		AJ Bell Stadium	12,000	Premiership top 8 (3rd) (SF)
Saracens	Mark McCall		StoneX Stadium	10,500	Premiership top 8 (4th) (SF)
Sharks	John Plumtree		Kings Park Stadium	52,000	Challenge Cup Champions
Stade Français	Laurent Labit		Stade Jean-Bouin	20,000	Top 14 top 8 (2nd) (SF)
Stormers	John Dobson		Cape Town Stadium	55,000	URC top 8 (5th) (QF)
Toulon	Pierre Mignoni		Stade Mayol	17,500	Top 14 top 8 (4th) (QF)
Toulouse	Ugo Mola		Stade Ernest-Wallon	19,500	Top 14 top 8 (1st) (CH)
Ulster	Richie Murphy		Ravenhill Stadium	18,196	URC top 8 (6th) (QF)

Pool stage

Main article: 2024–25 European Rugby Champions Cup pool stage

Teams were drawn into pools on 2 July in Cardiff. Teams will be awarded four points for a win, two for a draw, one for scoring four tries in a game, and one for losing by less than eight points.

The format is, once again, a modified round robin. Each pool consists of six teams, two from each of the three contributing leagues. Each team plays the four teams not from its own league once, with one game away to each league and one game at home. Teams do not play their league partners at this stage. The top four teams go to the first knock out round, where the top two teams in each group are given home advantage. The fifth placed teams 'drop' into the Challenge Cup knockout rounds, joining twelve clubs from that competition's pool stages in the Challenge Cup knockout stage. The sixth placed team in each group is eliminated.

Pool 1

European Rugby Champions Cup Pool 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	TF	TA	TB	LB	Pts	Qualification
1	Bordeaux	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Home Champions Cup round of 16.
2	Exeter Chiefs	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Leicester Tigers	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Away Champions Cup round of 16.
4	Sharks	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Toulouse	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Away Challenge Cup round of 16.
6	Ulster	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: EPCR
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers for teams tied on points: 1) Number of matches won; 2) Difference between points for and against; 3) Total number of points for; 4) Aggregate number of points scored in matches between tied teams; 5) Number of matches won excluding the first match, then the second and so on until the tie is settled.

Pool 2

European Rugby Champions Cup Pool 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	TF	TA	TB	LB	Pts	Qualification
1	Bath	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Home Champions Cup round of 16.
2	Benetton	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Bristol Bears	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Away Champions Cup round of 16.
4	Clermont	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	La Rochelle	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Away Challenge Cup round of 16.
6	Leinster	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: EPCR
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers for teams tied on points: 1) Number of matches won; 2) Difference between points for and against; 3) Total number of points for; 4) Aggregate number of points scored in matches between tied teams; 5) Number of matches won excluding the first match, then the second and so on until the tie is settled.

Pool 3

European Rugby Champions Cup Pool 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	TF	TA	TB	LB	Pts	Qualification
1	Bulls	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Home Champions Cup round of 16.
2	Castres	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Munster	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Away Champions Cup round of 16.
4	Northampton Saints	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Saracens	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Away Challenge Cup round of 16.
6	Stade Français	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: EPCR
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers for teams tied on points: 1) Number of matches won; 2) Difference between points for and against; 3) Total number of points for; 4) Aggregate number of points scored in matches between tied teams; 5) Number of matches won excluding the first match, then the second and so on until the tie is settled.

Pool 4

European Rugby Champions Cup Pool 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	TF	TA	TB	LB	Pts	Qualification
1	Glasgow Warriors	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Home Champions Cup round of 16.
2	Harlequins	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Racing 92	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Away Champions Cup round of 16.
4	Sale Sharks	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Stormers	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Away Challenge Cup round of 16.
6	Toulon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: EPCR
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers for teams tied on points: 1) Number of matches won; 2) Difference between points for and against; 3) Total number of points for; 4) Aggregate number of points scored in matches between tied teams; 5) Number of matches won excluding the first match, then the second and so on until the tie is settled.