| 2024–25 European Rugby Champions Cup | |
| Venue: | Millennium Stadium, Cardiff |
| Website: | http://www.epcrugby.com |
| Previous Year: | 2023–24 |
| Previous Tournament: | 2023–24 European Rugby Champions Cup |
| Next Year: | 2025–26 |
| Next Tournament: | 2025–27 European Rugby Champions Cup |
The 2024–25 European Rugby Champions Cup is the eleventh season of the European Rugby Champions Cup, the annual club rugby union competition run by European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) for professional clubs. It is the 30th season of the pan-European professional club rugby competition.
The final will be played at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.[1] [2]
Twenty-four clubs from the three major European domestic and regional leagues will qualify to compete in the 2024–25 edition of the Champions Cup.[3]
The distribution of teams is:
| Premiership | Top 14 | United Rugby Championship | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=15% | England | width=15% |  France | width=15% | Ireland | width=15% |  Italy | width=15% | Scotland | width=15% | South Africa |
Below is the list of coaches, captain and stadiums with their method of qualification for each team.
Note: Placing shown in brackets, denotes standing at the end of the regular season for their respective leagues, with their end of season positioning shown through CH for Champions, RU for Runner-up, SF for losing Semi-finalist, and QF for losing Quarter-finalist.
See main article: article and 2024–25 European Rugby Champions Cup pool stage. Teams were drawn into pools on 2 July in Cardiff. Teams will be awarded four points for a win, two for a draw, one for scoring four tries in a game, and one for losing by less than eight points.
The format is, once again, a modified round robin. Each pool consists of six teams, two from each of the three contributing leagues. Each team plays the four teams not from its own league once, with one game away to each league and one game at home. Teams do not play their league partners at this stage. The top four teams go to the first knock out round, where the top two teams in each group are given home advantage. The fifth placed teams 'drop' into the Challenge Cup knockout rounds, joining twelve clubs from that competition's pool stages in the Challenge Cup knockout stage. The sixth placed team in each group is eliminated.
