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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

19/04	Glasgow	-	The Sharks	6:35pm
19/04	Ulster	-	Cardiff Rugb	6:35pm
20/04	Benetton	-	Dragons	1:00pm
20/04	Lions Super	-	Leinster	1:00pm
20/04	Bulls Super	-	Munster	3:05pm
20/04	Stormers	-	Ospreys	5:15pm
20/04	Connacht	-	Zebre	6:35pm
20/04	Edinburgh	-	Scarlets	6:35pm
26/04	Scarlets	-	The Sharks	6:35pm
26/04	Ulster	-	Benetton	6:35pm
Results
30/03	Scarlets	3 - 45	Glasgow
30/03	Munster	20 - 15	Cardiff Rugb
30/03	Stormers	13 - 7	Ulster
30/03	Ospreys	36 - 21	Lions Super
30/03	Benetton	18 - 14	Connacht
30/03	The Sharks	23 - 13	Edinburgh
29/03	Leinster	47 - 14	Bulls Super
29/03	Dragons	20 - 13	Zebre
23/03	Zebre	7 - 31	Leinster
23/03	Dragons	10 - 31	Bulls Super

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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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