European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR)

Rugby Union
Media

European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) has finalised its international media rights sales strategy for the next three seasons after appointing the Infront agency and River Media Partners, the UK-based…
Rugby Union
Events

European Professional Club Rugby, organising body of the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup, has announced the expansion of the two club competitions with the inclusion of five South African teams
Rugby Union
Events

The finals of the 2022-23 Champions Cup and Challenge Cup rugby union tournaments will now be held at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, and not Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as initially planned
Rugby Union
Finance & Law

RDA has been awarded a net sum of €205,662 (£174,000/$235,000) following a legal dispute with European Professional Club Rugby over the UK-based media rights agency’s use of a ‘force majeure’ clause t…
Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

Logistics company DHL has been added as a sponsor of rugby union’s Heineken Champions Cup and EPCR Challenge Cup. EPCR has announced DHL as its ‘Official Logistics Partner’. U
Rugby Union
Industry Moves

European Professional Club Rugby, organising body of the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup tournaments, has appointed Dominic McKay as a non-executive director and as its chairman on an interim basis.
Rowing
Industry Moves

Vincent Gaillard, the former chief executive of European Professional Club Rugby, is to take up a new role as executive director of World Rowing
Rugby Union
Events

The finals of this year’s Champions Cup and Challenge Cup rugby union competitions, originally scheduled to take place in Marseille, will now be held at London’s Twickenham Stadium, with up to 10,000 fan…
Rugby Union
Events

Backers of a new world championship for leading club rugby union teams are increasingly optimistic the first edition can be launched in 2022, according to UK newspaper The Telegraph
Rugby Union
Events

European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR), organising body of the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup tournaments, has revealed that it is considering an expanded version of the former as it explores options…
Boxing
Events

The shutdown of professional sport in Japan will have cost the economy ¥274.7bn ($2.6bn/€2.4b
Rugby Union
Events

European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) has reconfirmed the suspension of its Champions Cup and Challenge Cup club competitions, with the upcoming semi-finals and finals matches having been postponed
Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

Italian sportswear brand Kappa has agreed a deal to become the official technical apparel partner of the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup club rugby union competitions
Basketball
Sponsorship & Marketing

Title sponsorship is first and foremost a way of making consumers aware of a brand name, putting the brand into the mouths of fans as they talk about a team, competition or other property.
Rugby Union
Business

European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) has announced a series of changes to the qualification process for the Champions Cup, one of its showpiece club rugby union competitions.
Rugby Union
Events

European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) has announced that the Spanish city of Bilbao will host its showpiece Champions Cup, Challenge Cup and Continental Shield finals in 2018, while Newcastle in England will stage the events in 2019.
Rugby Union
Events

The European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) body has announced that the 2016 finals of its European Rugby Cup and Champions Challenge Cup club rugby union tournaments will take place in the French city of Lyon before Scotland hosts the showpiece matches in 2017.