Premiership Rugby

Premiership Rugby
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2024–25 Premiership Rugby
SportRugby union
Founded1987 (1987)
CEOSimon Massie-Taylor
AdministratorRFU
No. of teams10
CountryEngland
Most recent
champion(s)
Northampton Saints (2nd title)
(2023–24)
Most titlesLeicester Tigers (11 titles)
TV partner(s)TNT Sports
ITV
Level on pyramidLevel 1
Relegation toRFU Championship
Domestic cup(s)Premiership Rugby Cup
International cup(s)European Rugby Champions Cup
European Rugby Challenge Cup
Official websitepremiershiprugby.com

Premiership Rugby, officially known as Gallagher Premiership Rugby, or the Gallagher Premiership for sponsorship reasons,[1] is an English professional rugby union competition, consisting of 10 clubs, and is the top division of the English rugby union system.

Premiership clubs qualify for Europe's two main club competitions, the European Rugby Champions Cup and the European Rugby Challenge Cup. The winner of the second division, the RFU Championship is promoted to the Premiership and until 2020, the team finishing at the bottom of the Premiership each season was relegated to the Championship. The competition is regarded as one of the three top-level professional leagues in the Northern and Western Hemispheres, along with the Top 14 in France, and the cross-border United Rugby Championship for teams from Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Italy and South Africa.

The competition has been played since 1987, and has evolved into the current Premiership system. The current champions are Northampton Saints who won the league in 2024.

  1. ^ "Gallagher Premiership Rugby to kick off on 31 August 2018" (Press release). Premiership Rugby. 12 April 2018. Archived from the original on 30 May 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2018.

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