{"id":567231,"date":"2026-05-05T10:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567231\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T10:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:31:07","slug":"prem-rugby-2026-27-season-to-start-on-25-27-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567231\/","title":{"rendered":"Prem rugby: 2026-27 season to start on 25-27 September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2026-27 Prem rugby season will revert to a Friday night start on 25 September having begun on a weeknight this season for the first time in its history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Prem opened with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c3r959e1d5no\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thursday night game<\/a> at the start of the current campaign to avoid a clash with the Women&#8217;s World Cup final. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Next season&#8217;s final will be held at Allianz Stadium, Twickenham on Saturday, 19 June 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2026-27 campaign will see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cg4g3xrxv6po\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">promotion and relegation within the top tier officially scrapped<\/a> as part of a series of changes to the league voted through in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026-27 Prem rugby season will revert to a Friday night start on 25 September having begun on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-567231","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\/567231","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=567231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}