{"id":681126,"date":"2026-07-08T21:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681126\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T21:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:43:08","slug":"worcester-warriors-champ-rugby-winners-face-bedford-on-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681126\/","title":{"rendered":"Worcester Warriors: Champ Rugby winners face Bedford on opening day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the festive period, Warriors have a double-header with Cornish Pirates &#8211; hosting them on 26 December before making the trip to the south west in their first game of 2027 a week later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They finish the season with home games against Caldy and Chinnor before the returns at Rotherham and then Bedford on the final weekend on 24 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coventry, who finished the regular season in third place, six points clear of Worcester, were beaten in the semi-finals 58-24 by Bedford and meet them again in week 10 of the new campaign on 5 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cov start 2026-27 at Rotherham before taking on the Pirates in their first home game on 26 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They play Hartpury home and away over the Christmas and New Year period, while Ealing visit over Easter on 27 March, 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two of their final three games are at home &#8211; against Richmond and Rotherham &#8211; with a trip to Cornwall in between.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the festive period, Warriors have a double-header with Cornish Pirates &#8211; hosting them on 26 December before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-681126","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\/681126","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=681126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}