Leicester Tigers return to Investec Champions Cup action this Sunday as Michael Cheika's side travel to France to take on Union Bordeaux Bègles at Stade Chaban-Delmas.
Tigers then face a star-studded Hollywoodbets Sharks side at Mattioli Woods Welford Road on Saturday, December 14.
Secure your spot in the stands for the Sharks game and Tigers clash against Ulster Rugby in January below. The Ulster fixture is one of eight games included in your half-season ticket.
How to watch?
For our home games, the obvious choice is of course at Mattioli Woods Welford Road, but when the team's on the road, you can catch every game live and exclusively on Premier Sports, the new home of European Rugby.
All 63 games from the Investec Champions Cup for the next 3 seasons, including every Leicester Tigers game exclusively live, beginning with the Round 1 opener away to Bordeaux this week.
Premier Sports are bringing new levels of coverage to UK rugby fans, offering over 340 live rugby games this season including:
· Every United Rugby Championship game
· Every Investec Champions Cup game
· EPCR Challenge Cup games
· 110+ Top 14 games, including four games per round and full playoff coverage
Premier Sports is available in the UK on the Sky platform (channels 419 & 420) from £10.99 per month which includes free access to Premier Sports streaming service. You can also watch on Virgin (channels 551 & 552) and on Amazon Prime as an add-on subscription.
Premier Sports also streams online via dedicated apps on a wide range of devices and platforms.
Premier Sports are offering Tigers fans a special season ticket price for just £70, giving live & on-demand access to all channel content for a year by using promo code LEICESTER70, saving you £50 on the standard annual rate.
Simply select the ‘Pre-Paid Annual’ option on the subscribe now page (link below), and enter the promo code LEICESTER70 to avail of this special, limited time offer. This offer is applicable only to Sky and Premier Sports streaming service platforms.
Subscribe now at www.premiersports.com/gb/identity
The Format
The Investec Champions Cup will be competed for by 24 elite clubs with eight representatives from the TOP 14, eight from the BKT United Rugby Championship (URC), and eight from the Gallagher Premiership (see clubs below).
The clubs were divided into four pools of six by means of a draw with Investec Champions Cup winners Stade Toulousain, League winners Northampton Saints and Glasgow Warriors, as well as the Investec Champions Cup runners-up Leinster Rugby - due to Stade Toulousain also winning the TOP 14 - making up Tier 1 with each club drawn into a separate pool at the outset.
The remaining 20 clubs make up Tier 2 and were drawn into the four pools by means of an ‘open’ draw with the following in-built key principles:
There can only be a maximum of two clubs from the same league in each pool.
Clubs from the same URC Shield cannot be in the same pool.
There will be no matches between clubs from the same league, so for the purposes of creating the fixtures, each club will play four matches against four different clubs who are not from the same league, either home or away during the pool stage.
At the conclusion of the pool stage, the four highest-ranked clubs from each pool will qualify for the Round of 16 and the clubs ranked number five in each of the pools will qualify for the knockout stage of the EPCR Challenge Cup.
E-Calendar
Make sure you never miss the match. EPCR has launched a new digital calendar, which will allow you to easily sync all Investec Champions Cup and EPCR Challenge Cup games for the 2024/25 season directly to your digital device.
You can now sync matches directly to your preferred calendar programme, and have the choice to download all fixtures, or just your preferred fixtures. The calendar will update all match info automatically.
To keep up to date with Investec Champions Cup fixtures, please click here.
