{"id":424127,"date":"2026-01-19T22:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424127\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T22:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:20:09","slug":"cardiff-takeover-wru-look-to-ospreys-owners-to-buy-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424127\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff takeover: WRU look to Ospreys owners to buy Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If a deal with Y11 was to be achieved, Ospreys fans will fear they could eventually disappear as a professional outfit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That would not happen before the WRU could do a deal with the United Rugby Championship (URC) to reduce the number of Welsh sides in the league, with a replacement currently being sought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The four professional sides, including Scarlets and Dragons, could still be in existence for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If a deal is confirmed, the Y11 ownership issue would have to be looked at because World Rugby regulations prohibit organisations from owning two sides in the same competition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Regulation 14 states: &#8220;No individual, body corporate, partnership, trust or any other entity may directly or indirectly own or control more than one club except with the prior written consent of the Union concerned, or where clubs from different Unions are involved, the written consent of the Unions concerned and World Rugby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It remains to be seen what would happen with the proposed redevelopment of the St Helen&#8217;s ground in Swansea which has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c79l3jlgj1qo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earmarked as the Ospreys&#8217; new home<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swansea Council has backed the scheme but was waiting for news of Welsh rugby&#8217;s revamp before releasing funds of more than \u00a34m for the project to start the redevelopment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If a deal with Y11 was to be achieved, Ospreys fans will fear they could eventually disappear as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-424127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}