{"id":436638,"date":"2026-05-11T18:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/436638\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:25:08","slug":"glasgow-warriors-could-host-urc-final-in-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/436638\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow Warriors could host URC final in Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glasgow Warriors have been forced to search for a venue outside Scotland to host the United Rugby Championship final should they progress that far &#8211; and are considering Belfast&#8217;s Affidea Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have had to look elsewhere because no suitable Scottish venues, including their own Scotstoun Stadium, will be available on 20 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warriors currently lead the URC table and a bonus-point win away to Ulster on Friday will secure top spot &#8211; and with it top seeding and home advantage in the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glasgow will play at Scotstoun on 30 May if they have a home quarter-final, but the venue will then be handed over to Glasgow 2026 for Commonwealth Games preparations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A potential home semi-final on 6 June will therefore be switched to Murrayfield Stadium, but the home of Scottish Rugby is unavailable to host the final as it is staging a series of summer music concerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glasgow Warriors have been forced to search for a venue outside Scotland to host the United Rugby Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-436638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}