Premiership Rugby 2024/25: Dates, teams, history & odds

The 2024/25 season of Premiership Rugby begins in a few short months, with 10 teams from across England lining up hoping to be crowned champions next June.

Many of the world's best players will be desperate to help their clubs into the top four and the end-of-season play-offs, with Northampton Saints the defending champions.

Premiership Rugby 2024/25 dates

The 2024/25 Premiership Rugby season will kick-off on the weekend of the 20th-22nd September, while the date for the grand final has already been set for Saturday 14th June at Twickenham.

Premiership Rugby 2024/25 teams

The following 10 teams will compete in the 2024/25 Premiership:

·         Bath
·         Bristol Bears
·         Exeter Chiefs
·         Gloucester
·         Harlequins
·         Leicester Tigers
·         Newcastle Falcons
·         Northampton Saints
·         Sale Sharks
·         Saracens

Premiership Rugby 2024/25 venues

Below are the stadiums for each of the 10 Premiership sides:  

·         Bath: The Recreation Ground
·         Bristol Bears: Ashton Gate
·         Exeter Chiefs: Sandy Park
·         Gloucester: Kingsholm Stadium
·         Harlequins: Twickenham Stoop
·         Leicester Tigers: Mattioli Woods Welford Road
·         Newcastle Falcons: Kingston Park
·         Northampton Saints: cinch Stadium at Franklin’s Gardens
·         Sale Sharks: Salford Community Stadium
·         Saracens: StoneX Stadium

The Premiership season will pause for eight weeks during January, February and March to avoid a clash with the Six Nations.

Premiership Rugby 2024/25 format

The ten clubs play each other twice, home and away, meaning 18 rounds of fixtures.

The top four sides qualify for the play-offs, with the side finishing first at home to the side finishing fourth in one semi-final and second versus third making up the second semi.

The Premiership season will pause for eight weeks during January, February and March to avoid a clash with the Six Nations.

Premiership Rugby history

A reluctance throughout English rugby to introduce a league system meant the first Premiership season was not until 1987/88 when Leicester, a side featuring the likes of Dusty Hare, Dean Richards and Rory Underwood, were crowned champions.

Bath won six of the first nine league titles, though they have not won any since the last of those in 1996.

Leicester's 11 title triumphs is a record and eight other different clubs have got their hands on the Premiership trophy over the last 36 seasons, with Bath and Saracens the two current members providing the closest challenge to the Tigers with six each.