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Challenge Cup Standings

Keep an eye on the latest EPCR Challenge Cup standings right here at RugbyPass. Our rugby gurus are tallying up the points and tracking the tries to provide you with all of this season’s data. Whether you want to check that your team is still in contention for the knockout stage or see how this year’s favourites are faring, scroll below for the current Challenge Cup standings.

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2025-26 EPCR Challenge Cup Table and Format 

The EPCR Challenge Cup is an annual tournament that features 16 teams from the top three European rugby leagues, plus two invitees (one side each from Georgia and South Africa). The competition is organised into three pools of six teams.

In the pool stage, each team plays four of the other five teams in their pool, either at home or away. This means that each side plays a total of four matches. Following this, the top four teams in each pool progress to the round of 16, alongside the fifth-ranked team from each Champions Cup pool.

Then, the knockout stage consists of a round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final. The winner of the final is crowned as EPCR Challenge Cup champions.

Crucially, this means that teams that initially started the season in the Champions Cup and did not take part in the pool phase of the Challenge Cup can still win the competition. This happened most recently in 2024-25, when Bath won the competition after joining it at the round of 16.

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