Heineken Cup
The ultimate Champions Cup all-time XV

The ultimate Champions Cup all-time XV

An unreal team! With the 2025/2026 Champions Cup in full swing, we bring you the ultimate all-time XV for the competition once known as the Heineken Cup. Loosehead prop – Cian Healy (Leinster) Many of his performances from 2009 – 2013 were utterly devastating as he helped usher in a new age of lean and […]

3 months ago

Can you name all of Leinster’s Heineken and Champions Cup semi-final opponents?

Can you name all of Leinster’s Heineken and Champions Cup semi-final opponents?

Serious going if you can get 15/15. Another year and another semi-final for the Leinster goys. They are heavy favourites against Northampton, and have had pretty good success in the last four over the years. In lieu of this weekend’s game, we have put together a semi-final quiz for you all. Give it a decent […]

11 months ago

Quiz: Name these 20 Heineken Cup players from the 2000s

Quiz: Name these 20 Heineken Cup players from the 2000s

It’s time to wrack the brains Ahead of the 2024/25 Champions Cup and Challenge Cup, we have put together a quiz to celebrate those who togged out for Leinster, Munster, Ulster, and Connacht during the 2000s. It was the heyday of the competition, back when it was called the Heineken Cup. And while Connacht’s first […]

1 year ago

Champions Cup Last 16 – dates, kick-off times & TV coverage confirmed

Champions Cup Last 16 – dates, kick-off times & TV coverage confirmed

And then there were 16. Following an action-packed, number-crunching conclusion to the pool stage, EPCR have announced the dates, venues, kick-off times and TV coverage of the Heineken Champions Cup Round of 16 matches. The elite clubs which have qualified for this season’s knockout stage have 26 EPCR titles between them, and eight former Heineken […]

3 years ago

Brian O’Driscoll names his three favourites for the Champions Cup

Brian O’Driscoll names his three favourites for the Champions Cup

“I see the winner out of the three of them” The curtain came down on the pool stages of the Heineken Champions Cup at the weekend – with just sixteen teams now left in club rugby’s biggest competition. All three Irish provinces qualified from their pools, with two of them set to meet each other […]

3 years ago