URC Rugby Schedule This Weekend: Round 2 Fixtures, Times, How To Watch

The United Rugby Championship season is one week old, and already we've got a playoff rematch, a Welsh derby and the defending champions looking for their first win.

2d ago

Fresh Off Beating The Champs, Lions Welcome Ospreys To Johannesburg in URC Round 2

The 10bet Lions are coming home after knocking off the defending United Rugby Championship champions, while the Ospreys are heading to Johannesburg with a much different-looking lineup.

2d ago

URC Rugby Schedule This Weekend: Round 1 Fixtures, Times, How To Watch

The wait is over. The 2026-27 United Rugby Championship season begins this weekend with eight Round 1 matches spread across Friday and Saturday.

Sep 24

The Champs Are Back: Leinster Opens URC Title Defense Against Lions

Leinster Rugby's United Rugby Championship title defense begins in familiar territory against a 10bet Lions team that the defending champions sent home from the playoffs just a few months ago.

Sep 24

FloRugby Power Rankings: Ranking All 40 PREM, URC And Top 14 Teams

There are 40 teams across the Gallagher PREM, United Rugby Championship and Top 14, but putting them into one ranking requires something more complicated than comparing league tables. Toulouse plays a different schedule from Leinster. Northampton does not have to survive 26 rounds of the Top 14. The Vodacom Bulls deal with travel challenges that Bath never will. The question here is simpler: Which clubs look strongest entering the 2026-27 season?

Sep 23

URC Predictions: Full Table, Playoff Picks And Championship Forecast

The United Rugby Championship enters 2026-27 with a familiar group of title contenders and what could be a brutal race just to make the playoffs.

Sep 23

10Bet Lions 2026-27 Season Prediction: Another URC Playoff Berth

The 10Bet Lions finally crossed the line in 2025-26. After years of being competitive without reaching the United Rugby Championship playoffs, Ivan van Rooyen's team finished seventh, went 10-1-7, collected 54 points and won its first South African Shield.

Sep 22

Leinster Rugby 2026-27 Prediction: Can The URC Champions Win A Third Straight Title?

Leinster Rugby enters 2026-27 chasing a third consecutive United Rugby Championship title after turning a second-place regular-season finish into another championship last season. At Leinster's current standard, merely reaching the playoffs is not enough.

Sep 21

5 Biggest 10Bet Lions Storylines For The 2026-27 URC Season

The 10Bet Lions enter 2026-27 with a different burden than the one that followed them through the first four United Rugby Championship seasons.

Sep 19

Leinster Rugby's Cullen Farewell Leads 5 Storylines To Watch In 2026-27

Leinster Rugby begins 2026-27 in an unusual position: The back-to-back United Rugby Championship winner has little left to prove domestically, yet still carries unfinished business elsewhere.

Sep 18

3 Reasons To Watch Leinster Rugby This Season

Leinster Rugby enters 2026-27 as the back-to-back United Rugby Championship champion, but defending that crown is only part of the intrigue surrounding one of the URC's deepest squads.

Sep 16

3 Reasons To Watch The 10Bet Lions In The 2026-27 URC Season

The 10Bet Lions are no longer the United Rugby Championship's charming almost-team. In 2025-26, Johannesburg finally broke through: seventh place, 10 wins, 54 table points, a first South African Shield and a playoff berth. Leinster then demolished the Lions 59-10 in the quarterfinal, making the next question obvious.

Sep 15

5 Leinster Rugby Players To Know For The 2026-27 URC Season

Leinster Rugby enter 2026-27 as back-to-back United Rugby Championship winners, yet the defining ambition remains unresolved. They finished second in the 2025-26 URC regular season, then overwhelmed three South African opponents in the playoffs, only to lose 41-19 to Bordeaux-Bègles in the Champions Cup final.

Sep 14

5 10Bet Lions Players To Know For The 2026-27 URC Season

The 10Bet Lions enter 2026-27 in territory: they are no longer chasing their first United Rugby Championship playoff appearance. They finished seventh last season, won 10 matches, captured their first South African Shield and reached the quarterfinals.

Sep 11

10Bet Lions 2026-27 URC Season Preview: Can Johannesburg's Breakthrough Last?

The 10Bet Lions spent much of the United Rugby Championship era being praised for the same things: development, ambition, attacking rugby and the ability to make richer teams uncomfortable. What they did not have was a playoff berth.

Sep 8