The 2024–25 European Rugby Champions Cup pool stage will be the first stage of the 30th season of the pan-European professional club
rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
competition, and the eleventh under the
European Rugby Champions Cup
The European Rugby Champions Cup (known as the Investec Champions Cup for sponsorship reasons) is an annual rugby union tournament organised by European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR). It is the top-tier competition for clubs who compete in a pr ...
format. Twenty-four clubs from three major domestic and regional leagues competed over four rounds of pool fixtures, with 16 teams progressing to the knockout stages.
Structure
The pool stage draw took place on 2 July 2024. The complete fixture list was then announced on 12 July 2024. The fixtures will be played out across four weekends between 6 December 2024 and 19 January 2025.
Teams play other teams in the same pool, except the other team from their own league, with two games at home and two away. The top four teams in each pool progress to the round of 16, whilst the teams ranked 5th progress to the knockout stages of the
2024–25 EPCR Challenge Cup
The 2024–25 EPCR Challenge Cup, known colloquially as the 2024-25 European Challenge Cupwas the eleventh edition of the EPCR Challenge Cup, an annual second-tier rugby union competition for professional clubs competing in elite European compe ...
.
Teams are awarded points based on match performances; four points for a win, two points for a draw, one attacking bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match and one defensive bonus point for losing a match by seven points or fewer.
If two or more clubs in the same pool are equal on match points, their ranking will be determined as follows:
# the best aggregate points difference from the pool stage; or
# if equal, the number of tries scored in the pool stage; or
# if equal, the club with the fewest number of players suspended for disciplinary incidents in the pool stage; or
# if still equal, by drawing lots.
Pool 1
Round 1
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Round 2
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Round 3
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Round 4
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Pool 2
Round 1
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Round 2
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Round 3
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Round 4
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Pool 3
Round 1
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Round 2
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Round 3
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Round 4
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Pool 4
Round 1
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Round 2
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Round 3
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Round 4
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Notes
References
{{European Rugby Champions Cup
2024–25 European Rugby Champions Cup
European Rugby Champions Cup pool stages