{"id":517973,"date":"2026-06-30T09:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/517973\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T09:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:51:11","slug":"cheetahs-return-to-epcr-challenge-cup-amid-competition-rule-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/517973\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheetahs return to EPCR Challenge Cup amid competition rule changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>30 Jun 2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Cheetahs return to EPCR Challenge Cup amid competition rule changes\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"ArticleHero_image__RqLNq\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782813069_179_image.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tournaments<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the Investec Champions Cup and EPCR Challenge Cup Pool Draws for the 2026\/27 season, EPCR has confirmed that the Toyota Cheetahs and Black Lion from Georgia have again been invited to play in the Challenge Cup, while two tournament rule changes will come into effect for the new season.<a class=\"Shop_btnYellow__EsqCB\" href=\"\"\/><a class=\"Shop_btnDark__98lz6\" href=\"\"\/><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Ficons%2Farrow-left.svg&amp;w=96&amp;q=75\"\/><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Ficons%2Farrow-right.svg&amp;w=96&amp;q=75\"\/><img alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Fvectors%2FVector1.svg&amp;w=3840&amp;q=75\"\/><img alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Fvectors%2FVector2.svg&amp;w=3840&amp;q=75\"\/><img alt=\"Springboks\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"294\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"Newsletter_logo__0QikA\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2FSpringboks-logo.svg&amp;w=750&amp;q=75\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"saru-logo\" width=\"220\" height=\"185\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"footer-logo\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Flogo.svg&amp;w=640&amp;q=75\"\/><\/a>\u00a9 2026 SOUTH AFRICAN RUGBY \u00a0|\u00a0 PICTURES \u00a9 GALLO IMAGESBack to Top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"30 Jun 2026 Tournaments Ahead of the Investec Champions Cup and EPCR Challenge Cup Pool Draws for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-517973","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\/517973","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=517973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}