Following Saturday’s final rounds of matches in the Aviva Premiership, GUINNESS PRO12 and Top 14 regular seasons, EPCR have confirmed that the following 19 teams have qualified for the 2017/18 Champions Cup.
CHAMPIONS CUP QUALIFIED TEAMS:
Aviva Premiership – Wasps, Exeter Chiefs, Saracens, Leicester Tigers, Bath and Harlequins
GUINNESS PRO12 – MUNSTER, LEINSTER, Scarlets, Ospreys, ULSTER, Glasgow Warriors, Benetton Treviso
Top 14 – La Rochelle, Clermont Auvergne, Montpellier, Toulon, Castres Olympique, Racing 92
The 20th place in next season’s tournament will be decided by a series of play-off matches. If Gloucester win this Friday’s Challenge Cup final at BT Murrayfield, they will take the place of Northampton Saints – the seventh-ranked club in the Aviva Premiership – in play-off 1.
CHAMPIONS CUP QUALIFICATION PLAY-OFFS:
Play-Off 1: Northampton Saints (Aviva Premiership seventh-ranked team) or Gloucester v CONNACHT (PRO12 ninth-ranked team), May 19/20/21
Play-Off 2: Stade Francais (Top 14 seventh-ranked team) v Cardiff Blues (PRO12 eighth-ranked team), May 19/20/21
The Aviva Premiership and Top 14 teams will have home advantage
Play-Off Final: Winners Play-Off 1 v Winners Play-Off 2, May 26/27/28
The winners of play-off 1 will have home advantage
The winners of the play-off final takes the 20th place in the 2017/18 Champions Cup. The remaining 18 sides from the Aviva Premiership, PRO12 and Top 14 which have not qualified for the Champions Cup will play in the 2017/18 Challenge Cup.
The 19th and 20th places in next season’s Challenge Cup have been secured by Russia’s Enisei-STM and Krasny Yar who will play in the Continental Shield final at the BT Murrayfield complex on Saturday.
The pool draws for 2017/18 Champions Cup and Challenge Cup will take place in Neuchâtel, Switzerland on Thursday, June 8.
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