2024–25 Premiership Rugby

The 2024–25 Premiership Rugby is the 38th season of the top flight of English domestic rugby union competition. The season began on 20 September 2024 and finished on 14 June 2025.

The reigning champions entering the season are Northampton Saints, who claimed their second league title after winning the 2024 final. No team was promoted from the 2023–24 RFU Championship, as the champions, Ealing Trailfinders, were not able to meet the eligibility criteria required to enter the league.

The competition features the same 10 teams from the 2023–24 season. For the third consecutive season, the top team in the Championship was ineligible for promotion to the Premiership, after 2023–24 Championship winners Ealing Trailfinders failed to meet the minimum standards criteria to join the competition.

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• ^2 – Ali Hepher was the head coach of Exeter Chiefs for the first 11 rounds of the season, before he was replaced by Rob Hunter in March 2025. Hunter then left the club by mutual consent in May 2025, and director of rugby Rob Baxter took over the head coach role for the remainder of the season.
• ^3 – Harlequins will also play two home games at Allianz Stadium, London in December 2024 and May 2025.
• ^4 – Saracens will also play one home game at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London in March 2025.

The grid below shows each team's progression throughout the season, indicating their points total (and league table position) at the end of every round:

The regular season fixtures were announced on 23 July 2024.

Highlights of the season include:

• Derby Weekends – All fixtures scheduled for Round 4 and Round 12 are derby matches between local rivals – the Northern Derby (Newcastle Falcons v Sale Sharks), the West Country Derbies (Bath v Gloucester and Bristol Bears v Exeter Chiefs), the East Midlands Derby (Leicester Tigers v Northampton Saints), and the London Derby (Harlequins v Saracens).
• Slater Cup – Leicester Tigers and Gloucester will contest the Slater Cup at Welford Road on 20 October 2024, and at Kingsholm on 25 January 2025, in honour of former Leicester and Gloucester player Ed Slater.
• Big Game 16 – Harlequins will host Leicester Tigers in this season's edition of The Big Game at Allianz Stadium on 28 December 2024, during Round 9.
• The Showdown 5 – Saracens will host Harlequins in this season's edition of The Showdown at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on 22 March 2025, during Round 12.
• Big Summer Kick-Off 4 – Harlequins will host Gloucester in this season's edition of the Big Summer Kick-Off at Allianz Stadium in May 2025, during Round 16.
• Big Day Out – Bristol Bears will host Bath in the inaugural edition of the Big Day Out at Principality Stadium in May 2025, during Round 16.

Notes

• All fixtures are subject to change.
• Referees appointed to officiate Premiership matches are employed by the RFU, unless indicated otherwise.

As in previous seasons, the top four teams in the Premiership table, following the conclusion of the regular season, contested the play-off semi-finals in a 1st vs 4th and 2nd vs 3rd format, with the higher ranking team having home advantage. The two winners of the semi-finals then met in the Premiership Final at Allianz Stadium in Twickenham, London on 14 June 2025.

Subject to meeting the eligibility criteria for promotion, the team which places 1st in the 2024–25 RFU Championship will contest a two-legged play-off against the team which finishes 10th in the Premiership table. Each team will play one of the play-off legs at their home stadium, with the aggregate score across the two matches determining the winner, who will then compete in the following year's Premiership season. If the Championship winner is ineligible for promotion, no play-off will take place.

In March 2025, the RFU confirmed that Doncaster Knights were the only Championship club that would be eligible for promotion to the Premiership for the 2025–26 season. Therefore, since Doncaster did not win the 2024–25 Championship, there was no promotion and relegation between the two leagues.

Note: Flags to the left of player names indicate national team as has been defined under World Rugby eligibility rules, or primary nationality for players who have not yet earned international senior caps. Players may hold one or more non-WR nationalities.

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The following players have received the Gallagher Premiership Player of the Month award during the 2024–25 season, as selected by a panel of media commentators, in addition to monthly public polls.

Note: No Player of the Month awards will be presented for November 2024 or February 2025, as no Premiership fixtures are scheduled to take place during either of these months, because of the two pauses in the season due to the 2024 Autumn Nations Series and 2025 Six Nations, respectively.

The competition is being broadcast by TNT Sports for the twelfth consecutive year. The 2024–25 season is the first of the new broadcast deal with Premiership Rugby, under which all 93 matches will be shown live on TNT and Discovery+. In addition, seven select matches, including the Premiership Final, will be broadcast free-to-air on ITV over the course of the season.

New to this season is a one-hour highlights programme, titled Gallagher Premiership Unleashed, which is aired on ITV4 each Wednesday at 7pm, recapping all of the fixtures held over the previous weekend. An abridged, half-hour version of the show is also shown on ITV1 every Wednesday at 11.45pm, while both programmes will remain available to view on demand via ITVX.

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