Wales Rugby Regions
The arrangement has been agreed via the welsh rugby union with natwest.
Wales rugby regions. Since 2001 all of the teams also competed in the celtic league competition a cross border competition involving welsh scottish and irish teams. The first two of these competitions set to launch in 2014 15 replace the now defunct heineken cup and amlin challenge cup. The regional a teams compete in the celtic cup. Wales four professional rugby regions play in the pro14 league and take part in the european rugby champions cup european rugby challenge cup and anglo welsh cup.
Information fixtures results league tables and the latest news for each of our welsh rugby union regions. The loan will be divided between the cardiff blues scarlets. We kick off our run of matches with a hit out against france in preparation for our six nations encounter against scotland which is important as it concludes the 2020 guinness six nations. G roup finance director steve phillips will become interim chief executive officer of the welsh rugby union when incumbent martyn phillips leaves the role after the next annual general meeting in october.
International rugby has been hugely missed and we can t wait to get back underway this autumn with six great fixtures said wales head coach pivac. Wru operations director julie paterson alongside wru national medical manager prav mathema and wru national physical performance manager paul. Ospreys chairman robert davies has welcomed the 20million loan to the regions saying welsh rugby would fail without it. Wru national medical manager prav mathema along with wales head coach wayne pivac and wru national physical performance manager paul bobby stridgeon present a return to play presentation for the professional game in wales.
Cardiff blues dragons ospreys and scarlets compete in the guinness pro14 heineken champions cup challenge cup as well as regional age grade and women s regional age grade. Phillips will assume responsibility for the day to day running of the union from 14th september with the transition and hand over period between the two colleagues set to reach its. Don t expect the blues to be ripping up many trees in the 2020 21 campaign with the princes of welsh rugby in danger of being left behind by wales other three regions.