Highest ranked team to host URC Grand Final as playoff format confirmed via IrishTimesSport
Tournament organisers have confirmed that the highest ranked team will host the 2021-22 United Rugby Championship Grand Final on Saturday, June 18th.
This announcement will heighten the importance for teams in the URC playoff hunt to pick up every available point over the remaining 28 regular season fixtures. Among those games are 12 clashes between northern hemisphere and South African sides, 14 head-to-heads between teams currently in playoff contention in addition to eight derby matches.
In other words, six points from their final three games away to the South African duo of the Sharks, whom they play in Durban on Saturday, and the Stormers in Cape Town on Saturday week, and against Munster at the Aviva Stadium on May 21st would assure Leo Cullen’s team of first place., URC chief executive , said: “With some thrilling rugby ahead of us the time is right to confirm our plans for the first-ever United Rugby Championship Grand Final.
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