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The Scottish Premiership (referred to as the Tennents Premiership for sponsorship reasons) is the highest level of amateur league competition for Scottish rugby union clubs. First held in 1973, it is the top division of the Scottish League Championship. The most recent (2024) champions are the Currie Chieftains, who are also the youngest club ...
BT Sport now shows this after the acquisition of ESPN by BT Sport. September – ESPN starts broadcasting live coverage of 43 matches per season from the English Premiership . [8] The agreement also provides highlight rights for use on ESPN digital media such as ESPNScrum.com. Sky Sports will continue to show 26 live games per season plus the other semi-final.
2019–20 Gallagher Premiership. The 2019–20 Gallagher Premiership was the 33rd season of the top flight English domestic rugby union competition and the second one to be sponsored by Gallagher. The reigning champions entering the season were Saracens, who had claimed their fifth title after defeating Exeter Chiefs in the 2019 final.
Fixtures for the season were announced by Premiership Rugby on 7 July 2016. As is the norm, round 1 included the London Double Header at Twickenham . For the first time since its 2004 inception, the Double Header involved only two of the original London teams – Harlequins and Saracens – with London Irish having been relegated to the Championship for 2016–17 and Wasps no longer being ...
The Scottish Rugby Union ( SRU; Scottish Gaelic: Aonadh Rugbaidh na h-Alba) is the governing body of rugby union in Scotland. Now marketed as Scottish Rugby, it is the second oldest Rugby Union, having been founded in 1873. The SRU oversees the national league system, known as the Scottish League Championship, and the Scottish National teams.
Domestic cup (s) BT Shield and BT Regional Bowl. The Caledonia Regional League (currently named the Tennent's Caledonia League for sponsorship reasons) is one of three Regional Leagues operated by the Scottish Rugby Union (SRU), which play at a level below that of the National League structure. Historically, these divisions were district ...
2024 mid-year rugby union tests. The 2024 mid-year rugby union internationals (also known as the summer internationals in the Northern Hemisphere) are international rugby union matches that will be mostly played in the Southern Hemisphere during the July international window.
As part of this new line-up, BT Sport decided to launch a football scores service. The programme was launched on 13 August 2016. Prior to the 2016–17 season, BT Sport had showed live rugby union coverage in this slot which was then broadcast on BT Sport 2. The programme began on BT Sport 1 after the final whistle of the live lunchtime game ...