La Rochelle will be aiming for a new European title this Sunday, May 21 on the occasion of the Champions Cup final.
Make way for the remake of the 2022 final this Saturday May 20 between the Irish province of Leinster and the French of La Rochelle. For this final, the Rochelais will be complete to the great satisfaction of Ronan O’Gara. “It’s fantastic for me, it’s only Matthias Haddad-Victor who is injured, all the others are available,” he explained at a press conference. Good news also for the Irish who record the returns of winger James Lowe, absent against Toulouse, Robbie Henshaw, Cian Healy and Ronan Kelleher while Jonathan Sexton is still absent.
Saturday at 5.45 p.m., Leinster and Stade Rochelais will face off for the third time in the Champions Cup in three years. On May 2, 2021, the second in the top 14 managed to win at Stade Marcel-Deflandre 32-23 in the semi-final. In 2022, Stade Rochelais repeated its performance in the final by winning 24-21. They have never lost to the Irish team. But the formation of Leinster is well oiled and composed mainly of players from the XV of Club winners of the Six Nations tournament few months ago. The challenge will therefore be immense in the Irish capital for Stade Rochelais, which hopes to achieve the double.
The final of the Champions Cup 2023 will be broadcast in full on the antennas of bein Sports and of France TV.
The 2023 Champions Cup final will pit Stade Rochelais against Leinster like last year. The match is scheduled for Aviva Stadium on May 20 at 5:45 p.m.
What are the winners of the European Rugby Cup?
Here is the detail of the winners since the creation of the European Rugby Cup in 1996:
- 2022: La Rochelle
- 2021: Toulouse
- 2020: Exeter
- 2019: Saracens
- 2018: Leinster
- 2017: Saracens
- 2016: Saracens
- 2015: Toulouse
- 2014: Toulouse
- 2013: Toulouse
- 2012: Leinster
- 2011: Leinster
- 2010: Toulouse
- 2009: Leinster
- 2008: Munster
- 2007: London Wasps
- 2006: Munster
- 2005: Toulouse
- 2004: London Wasps
- 2003: Toulouse
- 2002: Leicester
- 2001: Leicester
- 2000: Northampton
- 1999: Ulster
- 1998: Bath
- 1997: Brive
- 1996: Toulouse