The 2022–23 Premiership Rugby Cup is the 50th season of England's national

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Premiership Rugby Cup The Premiership Rugby Cup is an English rugby union knockout cup competition for teams in Premiership Rugby and from the 2023–24 season the RFU Championship. It was created in 2018 to replace the Anglo-Welsh Cup after the withdrawal of the Wels ...

format following the disbanding of the

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at the end of the 2017–18 season due to the withdrawal of the Welsh

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regions. Although there are no stipulations on player selection, the cup will be seen by many clubs as a development competition, and games will take place during the Autumn internationals and during the Six Nations.

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entered the competition as reigning champions, becoming the third winners of the Premiership Cup when they defeated

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by virtue of scoring more tries in a 25–25 draw at the

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in the 2021–22 final.

Competition format

The competition consists of the thirteen

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teams arranged in three pools. Pool 1 will consist of five teams whilst pools B and C will consist of four. Each team will play each team in their pool once only and, in the case of pools 2 and 3, also play an additional inter pool match. There will be five rounds of matches meaning each team will receive one bye. The top team in each pool, plus the best overall runner-up, will progress to the semi-finals, with the highest ranked teams having home advantage. The winners of the semi-finals will then meet at the final in May 2023 to be held at the home ground of the highest ranked remaining team.

Teams

Pools

Pool 1

Pool 2

Pool 3

Fixtures

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Notes: The matches in Round 6 were not part of the initial schedule of the competition, and were instead added to the fixture list to ensure that each team played the same number of matches following

and

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being unable to complete their allotted fixtures.

Semi-final

Final

Notes

References

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