Leinster v Bulls in Croke Park decider
The fifth United Rugby Championship Final will take place on Friday, June 19 at Dublin’s Croke Park. Leinster and the Bulls will face each other in a rematch of last year’s decider. After two stellar semifinals in Edinburgh and Dublin, Leinster and the Bulls secured their places in the 2026 URC Final, where Leinster will […]
Irish are ‘spitting mad’ after ruling in favour of Lions
The Irish are spitting mad after they lost their case against the Lions in the infamous ‘spit gate’ saga. The Irish ‘spit accusation’ refers to the controversy in the United Rugby Championship this past weekend, where Munster hooker Diarmuid Barron accused Lions flank Sibabalwe Mahashe of spitting on him during their match at Thomond Park. […]
URC semifinal teams
The teams for the semifinal of the United Rugby Championship have been named with all details of match officials and broadcast information below. TEAM NEWS HEADLINES GLAvBUL • Jamie Dobie set for first appearance on his return from injury for Glasgow Warriors• Captain Marcell Coetzee will make his 100th appearance for the Bulls, 76 times […]
Stormers and Bulls ready to hit the road in URC play-offs
The United Rugby Championship semifinals will take place this coming Saturday, June 6, in Edinburgh and Dublin. Teams from Ireland, Scotland and South Africa compete to reach the 2026 Final. Having won their quarterfinals Glasgow Warriors (ranked No.1), Leinster (No.2), Stormers (No.3) and Bulls (4) have been paired off to see who will reach the […]
The roster the Sharks wish they could field
Sharks coach JP Pietersen does not have the answer just yet, but he hopes to find a ‘solution’ to his team’s long injury list. Springbok captain Siya Kolisi, starting at flank, headline the team to face Italian outfit Benetton in a United Rugby Championship Round 17 match at Kings Park on Saturday. Kolisi is joined […]
The ‘twist’ that could knock Lions out of Champions Cup
UPDATE: The race for European qualification has an added layer of complexity this season due to the interaction between the United Rugby Championship table positions and EPCR title winners. Normally, the top eight teams in the final URC table qualify for the following season’s Champions Cup. However, if a URC team wins either the Champions […]
Stormers & Bulls get home run; Lions travel to Leinster
URC WRAP: It took until the final game of the final weekend of the regular season, but we do now know the eight teams in the United Rugby Championship play-offs and who will play who in the quarterfinals. In the end, it was Munster Rugby who secured the last available spot late on Saturday evening […]
‘Our ceiling is a lot higher than even we believe’
When Neethling Fouché and every other Stormers player opened the door to their hotel room in Belfast last week, on their beds there was a letter waiting for each of them. The letter was from their Irish hosts Ulster before their United Rugby Championship league game last weekend, which ended in a 38-all draw. “It […]
URC: Race to the play-offs going down to the wire
ROUND 17 REVIEW: The United Championship play-off race is going down to the final weekend of the regular season with five teams fighting it out for four spots. Leinster and the Bulls have now joined Glasgow Warriors and the Stormers in booking their places in the knock-out stage. That leaves the Lions, Munster, Cardiff, Ulster […]
Then there were nine: Stormers the top dogs; Lions closing in
ROUND 16 WRAP: The Stormers, Lions, and Bulls kept the South African flag flying high in the third-last round of the United Rugby Championship as they registered vital victories to improve their positions on the log, but it was a weekend of bitter disappointment for the Sharks, whose campaign will officially conclude at the end […]