2024–25 Premiership Rugby Cup

The 2024–25 Premiership Rugby Cup is the 52nd season of England's national rugby union cup competition and the second under the new Premiership Rugby Cup format, including clubs from both the Premiership and Championship. Gloucester are the reigning champions.
Bath would finish as the Premiership Rugby Cup champions, defeating Exeter Chiefs 48–14 in the final at Sandy Park on 16 March 2025.

Competition format

The format will involve 20 teams – all 10 clubs from the Premiership Rugby and 10 out of 12 clubs from the 2024–25 RFU Championship.
The 20 teams will be divided into 5 regional pools, each made up of 4 teams, with each side playing 6 games. This is a change from the previous season, where Premiership clubs typically had more home fixtures than the Championship sides.
The remaining 2 Championship clubs, Cambridge and Chinnor, were not invited, as Cambridge had finished 11th in the previous season, and Chinnor were newly promoted into the league. This was despite 22 teams being involved in the competition in the 2023–24 edition. The two excluded clubs set up a two-club two-leg challenge match, the "Not The Prem Cup" as a form of protest.

Teams

Club	League	Stadium	Capacity	City/Area
Ampthill	Championship	Dillingham Park	3,000	Ampthill, Bedfordshire
Bath	Premiership	The Recreation Ground	14,509	Bath, Somerset
Bedford Blues	Championship	Goldington Road	5,000	Bedford, Bedfordshire
Bristol Bears	Premiership	Ashton Gate	27,000	Bristol
Caldy	Championship	Paton Field	4,000	Thurstaston, Wirral, Merseyside
Cornish Pirates	Championship	Mennaye Field	4,000	Penzance, Cornwall
Coventry	Championship	Butts Park Arena	5,250	Coventry, West Midlands
Doncaster Knights	Championship	Castle Park	5,183	Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Ealing Trailfinders	Championship	Trailfinders Sports Ground	5,000	West Ealing, London
Exeter Chiefs	Premiership	Sandy Park	15,600	Exeter, Devon
Gloucester	Premiership	Kingsholm	16,115	Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Harlequins	Premiership	Twickenham Stoop	14,800	Twickenham, Greater London
Hartpury University	Championship	Hartpury Stadium	2,000	Hartpury, Gloucestershire
Leicester Tigers	Premiership	Welford Road	25,849	Leicester, Leicestershire
London Scottish	Championship	Athletic Ground	4,500	Richmond, London
Newcastle Falcons	Premiership	Kingston Park	10,200	Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Northampton Saints	Premiership	Franklin's Gardens	15,249	Northampton, Northamptonshire
Nottingham	Championship	Lady Bay Sports Ground	3,700	Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Sale Sharks	Premiership	Salford Community Stadium	12,000	Salford, Greater Manchester
Saracens	Premiership	StoneX Stadium	10,500	Hendon, Greater London

Pools

Teams played every other team in their pool twice, once at home and once away. The group winners and three best placed runners up would qualify for the quarter finals.

If teams are level at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

Number of matches won
Difference between points for and against
Total number of points for
Total number of tries scored

Fixtures and results

The fixtures were announced on 20 August 2024, with the first game taking place on 1 November 2024, and the final taking place on the weekend of 14 March 2025.

Round 1

Pool A

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Pool B

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Pool C

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Pool D

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Pool E

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Round 2

Pool A

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Pool B

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Pool C

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Pool D

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Pool E

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Round 3

Pool A

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Pool B

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Pool C

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Pool D

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Pool E

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Round 4

Pool A

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Pool B

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Pool C

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Pool D

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Pool E

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Round 5

Pool A

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Pool B

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Pool C

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Pool D

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Pool E

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Round 6

Pool A

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Pool B

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Pool C

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Pool D

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Pool E

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Knockout stage

The winner from each pool will progress to the quarter-finals, along with the three best runners-up. The top 5 seeds are the group winners based on points – if teams are level, tiebreakers are applied. Seeds 6, 7 and 8 are the best 2nd place teams, based on the same criteria.