• For months, World Rugby, the international federation, has been working on a Club World Cup project, which it would have liked to launch in 2022.

  • If the date was postponed, its holding would be made possible thanks to "a new agreement for eight years", signed by the EPCR.

  • Its managing director Vincent Gaillard spoke last May of "a format a priori every four years" and of a first edition "which still remains to be fixed but not before 2024".

The idea of ​​a Rugby Club World Cup, ardently defended by FFR President Bernard Laporte, is gaining ground.

And it should take place "every four years", "instead of the final stages of the Champions Cup" (so in the spring), according to Simon Halliday, outgoing president of the EPCR, in charge of European competitions.

For months, World Rugby, the international federation, has been working on this project that it would have liked to launch in 2022. Before having to postpone this date, due to the health crisis and an agreement difficult to find between the different actors, on the background world calendar to be harmonized.

Keen not to be the loser in history, the EPCR also has its say.

In his farewell speech, at the end of his second mandate, Simon Halliday thus released some information on the periodicity and the date of this future tournament between European leaders and leaders of the Southern Hemisphere.

Many questions remain as to the exact format.

The holding of this Club World Cup would be made possible thanks to "a new agreement for eight years", signed by the EPCR.

“A real triumph in terms of negotiation and objectives shared between the leagues and federations of Europe,” says Halliday.

The former England international thus confirms the statements of its director general Vincent Gaillard last May to AFP, who had already spoken of "a format a priori every four years" and of a first edition "which still remains to be set but not before 2024. ”Many questions remain unanswered as to the exact format of this event and the teams involved.

But nothing seems to stop this project which could see the Stade Toulousain, reigning European champion, and the formidable New Zealand Crusaders clash.

Apart from perhaps a new global crisis ...

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