{"id":418710,"date":"2025-09-12T14:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418710\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T14:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:59:12","slug":"how-to-watch-the-premiership-rugby-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418710\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch the Premiership Rugby Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/content\/themes\/planet2\/img\/svg\/icons\/icon-info.svg\" class=\"ps-lazy-img h-5 w-5 !m-0\" alt=\"Info icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                This page contains affiliate links and we may earn a commission from any products or services you buy.\n            <\/p>\n<p><strong>The Premiership Rugby Cup returns for 2025 on Friday, September 12 with two evening games.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The tournament featuring the 12 Premiership sides will kickstart the rugby union season with four games taking place over the course of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>They will be followed by two more opening fixtures on Saturday including Leicester Tigers v Saracens and Sale v Bristol.<\/p>\n<p>The game at Newcastle will be live on <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/46mJFwJ\" target=\"_blank\">TNT Sports<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Fans who want to stream all of the weekend\u2019s 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 <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/46mJFwJ\" target=\"_blank\">sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u00a3500,000 prize money again this year.<\/p>\n<p>Bath\u2019s campaign will begin on September 20 when they welcome Exeter to the Recreation Ground.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend\u2019s fixtures include:<\/p>\n<p>Friday, September 12<br \/>7.30pm \u2013 Gloucester v Exeter<br \/>7.45pm \u2013 Newcastle Red Bulls v Harlequins<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, September 13<br \/>3pm \u2013 Leicester Tigers v Saracens<br \/>3pm \u2013 Sale v Bristol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This page contains affiliate links and we may earn a commission from any products or services you buy.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[12074,225,2466,6875,143394,4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-418710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-harlequins","9":"tag-home-page","10":"tag-newcastle","11":"tag-premiership","12":"tag-premiership-rugby-cup","13":"tag-rugby","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115191923641797751","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}