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cup competition and the second under the new

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format, including clubs from both the Premiership and

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are the reigning champions.

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would finish as the Premiership Rugby Cup champions, defeating

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48–14 in the final at

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on 16 March 2025.

Competition format

The format will involve 20 teams – all 10 clubs from the

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and 10 out of 12 clubs from the

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. The 20 teams will be divided into 5 regional pools, each made up of 4 teams, with each side playing 6 games (3 home, 3 away). This is a change from the previous season, where Premiership clubs typically had more home fixtures than the

sides. The remaining 2 Championship clubs,

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and

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, were not invited, as Cambridge had finished 11th in the previous season, and Chinnor were newly promoted into the league. This was despite 22 teams being involved in the competition in the 2023–24 edition. The two excluded clubs set up a two-club two-leg challenge match, the "Not The Prem Cup" as a form of protest.

Teams

Player movements

Pools

Teams played every other team in their pool twice, once at home and once away. The group winners and three best placed runners up would qualify for the quarter finals. * If teams are level at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order: # Number of matches won # Difference between points for and against # Total number of points for # Total number of tries scored

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Source: The Rugby Paper

Top try scorers

Source: The Rugby Paper

Discipline

Citings/bans

Notes:

Notes

References

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Competition format

Teams

Player movements

Pools

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Pool E

Fixtures and results

Round 1

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Pool E

Round 2

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Pool E

Round 3

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Pool E

Round 4

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Pool E

Round 5

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Pool E

Round 6

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Pool E

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Attendances

Individual statistics

Top points scorers

Top try scorers

Discipline

Citings/bans

See also

Notes

References