Q&A: Champions Cup and Challenge Cup formats explained

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Q&A: Champions Cup and Challenge Cup formats explained
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Your guide to what has changed and what has stayed the same in Europe’s top two club competitions

The draw for each tournament was held on Wednesday at London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the venue for both finals in May 2024. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/InphoThe tournament reverts to a multi-pool format, four groups of six teams, with each team playing either home or away against the four pool opponents who are not from their domestic league .

The tournament continues to be played over eight match weekends. The pool stages take place with two rounds of fixtures in December and two in January.The four Tier One clubs - La Rochelle , Munster , Toulouse and Saracens – headed up each pool and afterwards the remaining 20 clubs were drawn or placed into the four pools with a few provisos. Only two clubs from each league were permitted in a single pool and they cannot face each other at that stage of the tournament.

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