By Coventry Telegraph
May 7 2009

COVENTRY will compete in a new 24-team British & Irish Cup will take place from next season. Twelve teams from the English Championship, six from the Welsh Principality Premiership, Irish provinces Munster, Leinster and Ulster and three Scottish sides will compete for the inaugural trophy. The teams will be divided into four pools of six, playing over five weekends during the Autumn international and RBS 6 Nations windows, with semi-finals and finals on April 24 and May 15 respectively.

Terry Burwell, the RFU’s Tournaments and Competitions Director, said: “This is an exciting new tournament that will provide quality crossborder competition and will be a winner with players, coaches and fans alike.

“There is a real appetite for this competition and, from an English point of view, it will give Championship clubs an additional meaningful competition alongside their league structure.”

The teams taking part are Bedford, Birmingham & Solihull, Bristol Rugby, Cornish Pirates, Coventry, Doncaster, Exeter Chiefs, London Welsh, Moseley, Nottingham, Plymouth Albion, Rotherham Titans, Aberavon, Cardiff, Llanelli,

Neath, Newport, Pontypridd, Munster, Leinster, Ulster, Ayr Boroughmuir or Heriot’s and a side drawn from Edinburgh and Glasgow and members of Scottish Rugby’s National Academy.

There will be four pools of six, selected on a georgraphical basis, who will play each other once – provisional dates November 7 & 28, February 13 & 27 and March 13. The pool winners will progress to the sem-finals on April 24 with the final on May 15.

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