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The Premiership Rugby Cup returns for 2025 on Friday, September 12 with two evening games.
The tournament featuring the 12 Premiership sides will kickstart the rugby union season with four games taking place over the course of the weekend.
The competition kicks off with Gloucester v Exeter at 7.30pm and Newcastle Red Bulls taking on Harlequins at 7.45pm in the opening games of the tournament.
They will be followed by two more opening fixtures on Saturday including Leicester Tigers v Saracens and Sale v Bristol.
The game at Newcastle will be live on TNT Sports in the UK. The streaming giant has secured the rights to Premiership rugby this year and will show a selection of the matches this weekend.
Fans who want to stream all of the weekend’s action can sign up for a TNT monthly pass by logging on to their Amazon Prime account. Amazon is offering subscriptions to Discovery+, which now owns TNT. You can sign up here.
TNT Sports also has the rights to the start of the Premiership Rugby season starting on Thursday, September 25. A pass will allow you to watch all of the opening fixtures including Sale v Gloucester in the season opener.
Before the season begins the teams will take part in the Premiership Rugby Cup, which groups the 12 teams into three pots of four. Title-holder Bath Rugby will be hoping to secure the £500,000 prize money again this year.
Bath’s campaign will begin on September 20 when they welcome Exeter to the Recreation Ground.
This weekend’s fixtures include:
Friday, September 12
7.30pm – Gloucester v Exeter
7.45pm – Newcastle Red Bulls v Harlequins
Saturday, September 13
3pm – Leicester Tigers v Saracens
3pm – Sale v Bristol