Champions Cup will consist of four groups of six teams but will still have just four rounds of pool games
. The tournament will be played over eight weekends leading to the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup finals at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium in London next May.
The four Tier One clubs will head up each pool and afterwards the remaining 20 clubs will be drawn or placed into the four pools with a few provisions. There can only be two clubs from each league in a 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.
The Challenge Cup will consist of 18 clubs with eight representatives from the URC, six from the French Top 14 and two from the Premiership, plus two invited clubs which will be announced shortly. The clubs will be drawn or allocated into three pools of six with two Top 14 clubs in each pool. Clubs from the same URC Shield and from the Premiership, as well as the two invitees, will be kept apart during the draw.
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