{"id":648179,"date":"2026-06-20T01:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T01:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648179\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T01:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T01:52:14","slug":"how-to-watch-leinster-v-bulls-urc-grand-final-tv-channel-and-live-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648179\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch Leinster v Bulls URC Grand Final: TV channel and live stream"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everything you need to know about the upcoming clash in Dublin<\/p>\n

Leinster take on the Bulls in the URC Grand Final on Friday night(Image: Getty)<\/p>\n

The United Rugby Championship season reaches its dramatic climax tonight as Leinster and the Vodacom Bulls square off in a highly anticipated Grand Final rematch.<\/p>\n

For the first time in the tournament’s history, the showpiece event is taking place on a Friday night. Defending champions Leinster reached the final with a 20-11 victory over the Stormers, while the Bulls completed a stunning comeback from 21-3 down to edge past Glasgow Warriors 22-21 at Murrayfield.<\/p>\n

As the higher seed, Leinster have home advantage.<\/p>\n

However, the Aviva Stadium is unavailable having been booked for a Metallica concert, so the two sides will instead meet at Dublin’s Croke Park.<\/p>\n

Here is everything you need to know about how to watch the massive clash tonight.<\/p>\n

What time is Leinster v Bulls kick-off?<\/p>\n

Leinster v Bulls kicks off at Croke Park 7:30pm BST on Friday, June 19.<\/p>\n

What TV channel is Leinster v Bulls on?<\/p>\n

The match will be broadcast live in the UK and Ireland on Premier Sports.<\/p>\n

What about live streaming?<\/p>\n

Subscribers to Premier Sports can stream the match live via the Premier Sports Player app or website.<\/p>\n

Who is the referee?<\/p>\n

Italy’s Andrea Piardi will be the man in the middle for the Grand Final. He will be assisted by Welsh officials Adam Jones and Ben Breakspear, with Italy’s Matteo Liperini acting as the Television Match Official (TMO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know about the upcoming clash in Dublin Leinster take on the Bulls in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,209059,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-648179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sport-on-tv","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648179","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=648179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}