Newcastle Falcons have registered their first win in the European Challenge Cup as they defeated Castres in the second round at Stade Pierre-Antoine on Friday.

Castres Olympique lock Hans N'kinsi has been handed a six-week ban following an incident in the recently concluded European Rugby Challenge Cup game against Ospreys.

Leicester Tigers have qualified for the semi-finals of the European Challenge Cup after their Sunday's play-off game against Castres was cancelled.

Rory Kockott scored a hat-trick as Castres finished at the top of Pool 1 with a 27-33 win over Worcester Warriors in the sixth round of the European Challenge Cup at Sixways on Friday.

Castres registered their first win in the ongoing European Rugby Challenge Cup after they went on to beat Worcester Warriors 17-9 at Stade Pierre Fabre on Saturday.

Exeter Chiefs kept their play-off hope alive in the ongoing European Champions Cup as they went on to beat Castres 34-12 at Sandy Park on Sunday.

Castres scrum-half Rory Kockott has been handed a three-week suspension following his yellow-card incident during the recently concluded Heineken Champions Cup game against Munster.

Castres scrum-half Rory Kockott and replacement Marc-Antoine Rallier will face an independent disciplinary hearing after the duo were cited by EPCR following the recently concluded Champions Cup game against Munster on Saturday.

Munster came up with an improved second half performance as they went on to beat Castres 30-5 in their European Rugby Champions Cup at Thomond Park on Sunday.

Castres managed to overcome a red-card to Maama Vaipulu as they handed a 29-25 defeat to Exeter Chiefs in their European Champions Cup encounter at Stade Pierre Fabre on Saturday.

Danny Cipriani came up with an impressive performance under the watchful eyes of Eddie Jones as Gloucester completed a 19-14 win over Castres in their European Champions Cup clash at Kingsholm.

In Ben Mercer's latest column for TRU, he discusses the Top 14 and in particular, 'that' game between Toulon and Castres at the weekend.

France international Scott Spedding has agreed to join Top 14 club Castres from rivals Clermont Auvergne on a one-year contract.

Munster ran a six-try riot as they went on to secure a home quarter-final berth in the ongoing European Champions Cup following a 48-3 victory over Castres at Thomond Park on Sunday.

Castres came up with a clinical approach as they went on to thrash Castres 39-0 in their round five of the European Rugby Champions Cup face-off at Stade Pierre Fabre on Sunday.

Telusa Veainu and Jonny May scored five tries between them as Leicester Tigers got their European Champions Cup campaign back on track with a 54-29 bonus point win over Castres at Welford Road.

Munster managed to survive a second-half onslaught from Castres as they held on for a 17-17 draw in their European Champions Cup Pool Four opener at Stade Pierre Fabre.

Replacements Dan Leavy and fly-half Ross Byrne contributed with a late try and a conversion as Leinster made a comeback from 17-10 down to draw the game 24-24 against Castres in the European Champions Cup clash at Stade Pierre Antoine on Friday.

Teimana Harrison scored two tries in the first half while fly-half Stephen Myler contributed with 13 points as Northampton Saints ended Castres hopes of progressing to the quarter-finals with a 28-21 triumph in their European Champions Cup encounter at Franklin's Garden on Saturday.

Castres have kept their hopes alive of making it to the knock-out stage of European Champions Cup after they edged out Montpellier in a close 29-23 encounter at Stade Pierre Antoine on Sunday.