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Name
United Rugby Championship

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Poster

Established
2001 (23 years old)

First Recorded Event
2008-09-05

Current Season
2023-2024

API Football ID
76

Sport
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Rugby

Location
Worldwide

Gender
Male

TV Rights
US - ESPN [2018-2021]

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Upcoming

18/05	Bulls Super	-	Benetton	12:00pm
18/05	Ospreys	-	Dragons	2:00pm
18/05	Lions Super	-	Glasgow	2:05pm
18/05	Connacht	-	Stormers	4:05pm
18/05	The Sharks	-	Cardiff Rugb	4:15pm
18/05	Ulster	-	Leinster	6:35pm
31/05	Glasgow	-	Zebre	6:35pm
31/05	Leinster	-	Connacht	6:35pm
01/06	Benetton	-	Edinburgh	12:00pm
01/06	Stormers	-	Lions Super	11:45am
Results
17/05	Zebre	18 - 32	Scarlets
17/05	Edinburgh	26 - 29	Munster
11/05	Leinster	61 - 14	Ospreys
11/05	Lions Super	34 - 13	Cardiff Rugb
11/05	Munster	47 - 12	Connacht
11/05	The Sharks	24 - 25	Benetton
11/05	Scarlets	20 - 31	Ulster
11/05	Bulls Super	40 - 34	Glasgow
10/05	Edinburgh	40 - 14	Zebre
10/05	Dragons	21 - 44	Stormers

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The United Rugby Championship is an annual rugby union competition involving professional sides from Ireland, Italy, Scotland, South Africa and Wales. The league is one of the three major professional leagues in Europe (along with the English Premiership and the French Top 14), the most successful European teams from which go forward to compete in the European Rugby Champions Cup, the pan-European championship which replaced the Heineken Cup after the 2013–14 season.

Beginning with the creation of the Welsh–Scottish League in 1999, the league would become known as the Celtic League when it grew to include teams from Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The league was sponsored by Irish cider makers Magners from the 2006–07 season until 2010–11. At the start of the 2010–11 season, the league expanded from 10 to 12 teams, adding two Italian teams. Following the end of Magners' sponsorship, the league was sponsored by RaboDirect from 2011–12 through to 2013–14. The Pro12 name was adopted in 2011 to reflect that the league now included teams from outside the Celtic nations. A further expansion to 14 teams took place from the 2017–18 season, with two South African teams joining the Championship. The current sponsorship deal with Guinness commenced at the beginning of the 2014–15 season.

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