It was held at Wembley Stadium in London on 24 August 2019, kick off 15.00. But no date has yet been set for the start of the 2020-21 RFU Championship, as the governing bodies attempt to resolve a situation where Saracens are playing in both the top flight and the second tier at the same time. Latest Video .
16 May 2020. "It feels a bit like a 1995 moment [when rugby union went professional] when there is an opportunity to change some things that have plagued and challenged the game for a long time. 18 of these teams will automatically qualify from the The 19th and 20th teams will qualify via a Qualifying Competition, organised by European Professional Club Rugby and For the 2014–15 season, this took the form of 2 two-legged play-off matches, with the aggregate winner of each taking one of the two Rugby Europe spots in the draw, and it involved the 2 best teams from Italy's An expanded format, which was expected to feature more matches and more nations, for qualification into the Subsequently, on 22 December 2014, EPCR announced negotiations for a new format for the competition had now been completed, and the Qualifying Competition for entry into the 2015–16 Challenge Cup would begin in January.The teams in the competition are split into two pools. The name Sale eased to victory in the 2005 final 27–3 over a disappointing Beaten 2007 finalists Bath won the 2007–08 tournament after beating fellow English club The competition organiser, European Rugby Cup, announced several changes to the Challenge Cup effective in 2009–10:England made a triumphant return to the final in 2011, with The 2011–12 competition was dominated by French sides, with all four semi-finalists coming from that country. "As with a lot of things in rugby there are a lot of different stakeholders and a lot of different interests involved and it was always going to be complex. Quiz | 2019 Women's Challenge Cup Final Teams . The semi-final draw was an all-English and all-French affair to leave Harlequins and Narbonne contesting the first final on English soil. The following year's competition had an increased entry with eight groups of four teams. Challenge Cup. The 2019 Challenge Cup Final was the 118th cup-deciding game of the rugby league 2019 Challenge Cup Season. Teams are then drawn from the tiers into pools at random, with the restriction that no pool shall contain two teams from the same country or league, until the allocation of Tier 4, which will contain up to 1 English team and/or up to 3 French teams, as well as the 2 Continental Shield qualifiers.Teams will play the other three teams in the pool twice, at home and away, and match points will be awarded depending on the result of each game, with teams receiving four points for a win, and two for a draw.