LEINSTER’S CHAMPIONS CUP quarter-final meeting with Leicester Tigers has been confirmed for Good Friday, with the game set for an 8pm kick-off at Aviva Stadium.
The province booked their place in the last eight with a convincing defeat of Ulster on Saturday, while Leicester beat Edinburgh at Welford Road on Friday.
And EPCR have now confirmed the details for all quarter-final fixtures following today’s final round of 16 games.
Leinster’s meeting with the Tigers will kick-off the weekend’s Champions Cup action on Friday night, and will be live on RTÉ and BT Sport.
Leinster season ticket holders can pre-order tickets for the fixture now, before general sale opens tomorrow. The Aviva Stadium is expected to be at a reduced capacity for the game, in the region of 27,000, although that could change in the event of exceptional demand.
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On Saturday, five-time winners Toulouse will host the Cell C Sharks, before Exeter Chiefs welcome the DHL Stormers to Sandy Park.
The final quarter-final tie sees defending champions La Rochelle welcome Saracens to the Stade Marcel Deflandre on Sunday.
Should Leinster advance to the semi-finals, they will welcome the winners of the Toulouse v Sharks quarter-final to Dublin on the weekend of 28-30 April.
Champions Cup quarter-finals
(all kick-offs Irish time)
Friday, 7 April
Leinster v Leicester
Aviva Stadium, 8pm
Saturday, 8 April
Toulouse v Sharks
Stade Ernest Wallon, 3pm
Exeter v Stormers
Sandy Park, 5.30pm
Sunday, 9 April
La Rochelle v Saracens
Stade Marcel Deflandre, 3pm
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“The Aviva Stadium is expected to be at a reduced capacity for the game, in the region of 27,000, although that could change in the event of exceptional demand” surely that’s how it is with moat teams? I’d imagine there will be a lot more of a demand than the 27,000 capacity anyway.
@Dave Murray: I would have thought that certain sections will not be used with restricted capacity, resulting in a smaller staff requirement. If they put all 52k tickets on sale, all sections will have to be available and therefore full match day costs applied.
@Paul Ennis: I get that, just thought it(a little)odd that they would announce a 27,000 capacity restriction before tickets are on sale to the public and see what the demand is etc. But I guess with a short turn around and Easter weekend it could be harder to shift 50,000 tickets and get staff in like you said.
@Dave Murray: EPRC also organising the game rather than Leinster, and they’re shit at running things.
Without being presumptuous – is the semi final
Draw already planned out?
@Daithi Mc Ghiollamhairtin: Yeah. Leinster/Leicester v Toulouse/Sharks and La Rochelle/Salarycens v Exeter/Stormers
@baz dunne: many thanks
@baz dunne: Salarycens hahaha
5 day turnaround with the knock on effect of potential reduced capacity due to the limited timeframe is a great reward for going through as top seed. This is an absolute joke
@Rob Doyle: Your prize for top seed is its at “home” or at least 10mins down the road from it, so be thankful you’re not coming from Welford Rd with a week to plan it!! it does feel too near, be better if a 2 week gap but all the teams that are through are in the same scenario regardless of they seeding. 27k is an average sized rugby stadium, crucially it’s circa 10k more than full RDS capacity, and the fans all know the weekends of the semis well in advance, if not the exact day. I’m not overjoyed by a half full Aviva myself but it is what it is.
Real shame it’s not in a packed RDS, a half full Aviva sucks.
I think we’ll Leinster, Sharks, Stormers, and La Rochelle in the semis.
@Brenda Collins: 3 from URC? they’ll be due an ol restructure soon enough so.