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Euro Qualifiers Confirmed for 2018/19

The line-ups for next year's European Rugby Champions Cup and European Rugby Challenge Cup have now been finalised, following the Ospreys defeat to Ulster.

Martyn Bicknell | 20/05/2018

Following the end of the regular season in Europe's top competitions, Leinster are European champions and have a chance to scoop the double with the Pro14 title next weekend against championship holders Scarlets, whilst Cardiff Blues lifted this year's European Challenge Cup title for a second-time, and all three sides will be in Europe's premier competition next campaign.

With the French Rugby Pro D2 / Top 14 relegation battle completed, the final spot in next year's Champions Cup was decided with Ulster defeating Ospreys in Belfast to retain their record of participating at the top table of European rugby, but it 's a return to the Challenge Cup for the Liberty Stadium based Welsh region. 

The full list of qualifiers are:

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS CUP

AVIVA PREMIERSHIP - Exeter Chiefs, Saracens, Wasps, Newcastle Falcons, Leicester Tigers, Bath Rugby, *Gloucester Rugby

*As both Champions Cup finalists, Leinster Rugby and Racing 92, as well as the Cardiff Blues, were already qualified by virtue of their respective league positions, Gloucester have qualified as the losing club in the Challenge Cup final. 

GUINNESS PRO14 - Glasgow Warriors, Leinster Rugby, Scarlets, Munster Rugby, Edinburgh Rugby, Cardiff Blues, Ulster Rugby .

TOP 14 - Montpellier, Racing 92, Toulouse, RC Toulon, Lyon, Castres Olympique

EUROPEAN CHALLENGE CUP

The remaining 18 clubs from the Premiership, the PRO14 and the TOP 14 which have not qualified for the Champions Cup will play in the 2018/19 Challenge Cup, along with two finalists from the European Rugby Continental Shield.

AVIVA PREMIERSHIP - Sale Sharks, Harlequins, Northampton Saints, Worcester Warriors, Bristol 

GUINNESS PRO14 - Ospreys, Treviso, Connacht, Zebre, Dragons .

TOP 14 - La Rochelle, Pau, Clermont, Bordeaux-Bègles, Agen, SF Paris, Perpignan, Grenoble

EUROPEAN  RUGBY CONTINENTAL SHIELD - Enisey-STM (Russia), Heidelberger RK (Germany)

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