European Champions Cup

Harlequins boss Conor O'Shea is relishing his side's European Champions Cup opener against a "frightening" Castres side tomorrow night.

Goodbye Heineken Cup and Amlin Challenge Cup, hello European Champions Cup and European Rugby Challenge Cup. Welcome to a new era of European club rugby, but how much has really changed?

Saracens back-row forward Billy Vunipola says he is coming to terms with the "extra attention" he is receiving following his breakthrough season last year and that he just wants to keep improving.

Bath head coach Mike Ford says Steffon Armitage is unlikely to join the club as negotiations between the two parties have stalled.

Tournament organisers have announced a revised play-off format to decide the 20th and final qualifiers for next season's European Rugby Champions Cup.

The inaugural Champions Cup will kick off next month without all its major sponsors in place, one of the new European competition's key architects has admitted.

Saracens will open their European Rugby Champions Cup campaign by renewing hostilities with Clermont Auvergne, the French side they trounced to reach last term's Heineken Cup final.

After all of the controversy, discussions and actions the European Rugby Champions Cup has been formed and the inaugural tournament’s showpiece event will be hosted by Twickenham Stadium.

London Welsh have been drawn with Edinburgh Rugby, Bordeaux Begles and Lyon in Pool 5 of next season's inaugural European Rugby Challenge Cup.

Saracens chief executive Ed Griffiths says the creation of the European Rugby Champions Cup is a 'win-win' situation for Northern Hemisphere rugby.

The two-year deadlock on the future of top-flight European rugby is over and Bill Beaumont has hailed Ian Ritchie as a vital peace broker between the parties involved.