{"id":473923,"date":"2026-03-13T19:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473923\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T19:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:06:12","slug":"prem-salary-cap-back-in-the-news-as-bath-reveal-outcome-of-extra-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473923\/","title":{"rendered":"PREM salary cap back in the news as Bath reveal outcome of extra audit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Treble winners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/bath\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bath<\/a> Rugby have successfully completed a special salary cap audit, required by all Gallagher PREM-winning teams, to finally silence the critics who cast doubt on the club\u2019s ability to assemble such a star-studded squad within the league\u2019s financial regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Rivals jealously looked on as players of the calibre of Springbok <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/thomas-du-toit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas du Toit<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/lions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lions<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/scotland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland<\/a> star, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/finn-russell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finn Russell<\/a>, spearheaded Bath\u2019s first league title win in 29 years, with a hard-fought 23-21 victory over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/leicester\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leicester<\/a> in the PREM final at Allianz Stadium, Twickenham, last June. It completed a remarkable season, with the club having also won the PREM Rugby Cup and EPCR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/challenge-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Challenge Cup<\/a> in the same season.<\/p>\n<p>Bath always insisted everything was above board, and the latest audit, which took a deep dive into the club\u2019s financial affairs, confirms this.<\/p>\n<p>The club put out a statement today, detailing the thoroughness of the audit. It said:\u00a0\u201cBath Rugby can confirm it has completed its additional Salary Cap audit for the 2024\/25 season. The club welcomes the conclusion of the thorough audit process which reaffirms its compliance with the league\u2019s financial regulations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to the annual audit, the Salary Regulations require the winning PREM Rugby team to undertake a further independent, forensic audit. Bath Rugby fully supported and complied with this process opening its books to the additional review.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The audit required Bath to give\u00a0full access to emails and mobile phone records (including WhatsApp messages) relating to members of Bath Rugby\u2019s senior management and directors, comprising the Owner, Chief Executive, Finance Director, Head of Rugby, Head of Recruitment and Rugby Operations Manager.<\/p>\n<p>Financial records were provided by 50% of Bath Rugby\u2019s playing squad, including more than half of the club\u2019s highest paid players. These records included: Two years\u2019 worth of personal tax returns, and where applicable, image rights company tax returns, and personal bank statements, and where applicable, image rights company bank statements.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, six of the club\u2019s players were interviewed by the Salary Cap Director.<\/p>\n<p>Bath Rugby\u2019s Chief Executive, Tarquin McDonald, said: \u201cWe believe a strong and robustly enforced Salary Cap is a fundamental pillar of PREM Rugby and welcome the conclusion of the Extended Salary Cap audit which reaffirms our compliance with the Salary Regulations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe remain committed to resourcing the best possible squad, coaches and support staff, together with a top-level academy and a thriving player pathway across our region, while adhering to the highest standards of financial governance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Salary Cap system was strengthened in 2020 following Saracens\u2019 high-profile breach, which led to one of the league\u2019s most decorated club\u2019s being demoted to the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Treble winners Bath Rugby have successfully completed a special salary cap audit, required by all Gallagher PREM-winning teams,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-473923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}