Champions Cup draw live updates: Leinster and Munster await their fate
Hello and welcome to live coverage of the EPCR pool draws for the 2025 Investec
Champions Cup
and the EPCR
Challenge Cup
, which will take place at the Premier Sports studios in Dublin at 1.30pm.
Leinster
and
Munster
are among the 24 teams that have qualified for the Champions Cup, while
Ulster
and
Connacht
have qualified for the Challenge Cup.
For the Champions Cup, each pool of six will contain two clubs from each of the leagues, where Leinster and Munster will be kept apart. There will be no matches between clubs from the same league.
Leinster are in Tier 1 for the draw thanks to winning the United Rugby Championship, which means they also cannot play Union Bordeaux Bègles (2025 Investec Champions Cup winners), Bath Rugby (2025 Gallagher Premiership winners) and Toulouse (Top 14 winners). Munster will be in Tier 2 with the rest of the teams.
The Challenge Cup draw will have 18 clubs, with pools of six also, with Connacht and Ulster kept apart. There is no tier system involved for that draw, it is an open draw other than stipulations about teams from the same country and league meeting.
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