🏉 The Gallagher PREM regular season returns to the capital after the Six Nations break with a Round 11 showdown between Harlequins and Gloucester Rugby at The Stoop on Saturday 21 March.
2025/2026 Season info
Rugby union fans in London are spoilt for choice with the 2025/2026 men’s club season featuring a host of teams from the capital in domestic (PREM, Champ Rugby & National League) and European (Champions Cup) action.
PREM RUGBY IN LONDON
10 sides are contesting the 2025/2026 Gallagher PREM season which runs from September 2025 to June 2026. 18 regular rounds will be followed by the play-offs. The top 4 teams at the end of the regular season will contest the play-offs. The final is scheduled to take place on Saturday 20 June 2026 at Allianz Stadium.
Bath Rugby are the defending Gallagher PREM champions. Bath beat Leicester Tigers in the 2024/2025 final to lift the Premiership trophy for the first time since 1996.
Saracens and Harlequins are the two teams in the capital aiming for Gallagher PREM glory this season. Saracens won the Premiership title for a sixth time in 2023 with a 35-25 win over Sale Sharks at Twickenham. Harlequins last held the famous trophy aloft in 2021 when they beat Exeter Chiefs 40-38 in a memorable Premiership finale.
SEASON SO FAR
Heading into the Six Nations break Northampton Saints roared back to the top of the PREM table with a 43-29 victory over Sale Sharks. Saints are on 43 points. Champions Bath Rugby are in hot pursuit with 41 points. Bristol Bears and Leicester Tigers fill the remaining play-off places. Saracens are in the play-off hunt in sixth place, just 4 points behind fourth-placed Tigers. Fellow Londoners Harlequins are struggling for form in the league. A 7-34 defeat to Tigers saw Quins slip down to ninth place. Newcastle Red Bulls are bottom of the table on 5 points.
In the PREM Rugby Cup, the top two teams from Pool A and Pool B will progress to the semi-finals. Leicester Tigers and Saracens (who meet this Saturday at StoneX Stadium) are currently first and second in Pool B.
🎟️ TICKET NEWS LATEST ➡️ Harlequins ~ Saracens
PREM MATCHES COMING UP IN THE CAPITAL:
Round 11. Saturday 21 March: Harlequins v Gloucester Rugby KO 3pm ~ Round 12. Saturday 28 March: Saracens v Northampton Saints KO 6pm.
CHAMP RUGBY IN LONDON
Ealing Trailfinders, London Scottish and newly-promoted Richmond Rugby ensure a strong rugby union in London presence in the second tier of men’s English rugby which consists of 14 teams. The Champ Rugby season starts in early October and will feature 26 regular rounds. The top-six sides will then enter a play-off phase in May to decide the eventual Champ Rugby champion.
Ealing Trailfinders are the defending champions and currently top of the table on 88 points. They set a record 17th straight win in CHAMP Rugby recently when defeated Hartpury. Richmond are down in twelfth place, but on an upwards trajectory after back-to-back home wins including a 31-12 thumping of Caldy. London Scottish are thirteenth on 24 points after their recent 27-10 win over bottom side Cambridge recently. Cambridge are on 12 points.
🎟️ TICKET NEWS LATEST ➡️ Ealing Trailfinders ~ Richmond Rugby ~ London Scottish
CHAMP RUGBY MATCHES COMING UP IN LONDON: 2025/2026 fixture list here.
NATIONAL LEAGUE 1 – RUGBY UNION IN LONDON
Rosslyn Park and Blackheath are London’s representatives in National League 1 for the 2025/2026 season. The season runs from early October through until the end of April. The current campaign features 14 teams. The winner will gain promotion to Champ Rugby.
🎟️ TICKET NEWS LATEST ➡️ Blackheath ~~ Rosslyn Park
NATIONAL LEAGUE 1 MATCHES COMING UP IN THE CAPITAL: 2025/2026 fixture list here.
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