CONFIRMED: Champions Cup Semi Finals Locked In - one PREM club remains

The semi-finals are set to take place across the first weekend of May, with some blockbuster match-ups lined up on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd of next month. The last remaining quartet in the Champions Cup reads as a decorated ensemble of European heavyweights, as Leinster, RC Toulon, Bordeaux-Begles and Bath stack up the brackets for the incoming round.

Having claimed their first league title of the URC era last season, Leinster want to go one further and take home the trophy that has long eluded them. Runners-Up to the 'One to Win' in 2022, 2023 and 2024, the Dubliners are once again back in the business end of the competition, with their previous victors from years gone out of the running.

La Rochelle, Stade Toulousain and Northampton Saints have all been eliminated, with Leo Cullen's men out to end a seven year wait to be crowned kings of Europe. Leinster booked their place in the final four with a one-sided 43-13 home hammering of Sale Sharks, in a statement of intent for the weeks to come.

RC Toulon with arrive in Dublin in a few weeks time for a seismic clash, as they chase down their first Champions Cup title in over a decade. The Galacticos era across the 2013, 2014 and 2015 consecutive Heineken Cup triumphs has long been immortalised, with All Blacks legend Ma'a Nonu back in the south of France and still going strong at 43-years-old, as a remaining hallmark of this bygone time. Toulon handed Glasgow Warriors a rare home defeat in the quarter-finals, to shatter the Scotstoun foundations with a 22-19 loss.

Boardeaux-Begles join Toulon in flying the French flag into the final four of the Champions Cup, with the added caveat of being the defending title holders out to retain their crown. The Top 14 side broke new ground last season, as Bordeaux-Begles defeated Northampton Saints in Cardiff to win their very first Champions Cup title, and that winning feeling has certainly not subsided in a club brimming with Les Bleus superstars.

With the likes of Louis Bielle-Biarrey, Matthieu Jalibert and Yoram Moefana populating a test calibre back line, Bordeaux have emerged as a dangerous outfit upon the European stage. The French side made their way into the semi-finals after eliminating league rivals and six-time Champions Cup victors Toulouse from the competition, following a tremendous 30-15 victory over the record winning side.

After claiming an unprecedented trilogy of the Premiership, Prem Rugby Cup and EPCR Challenge Cup last season, Bath once again find themselves in pursuit of silverware as they progress to the Champions Cup semi-finals. The blue, black and whites went end-to-end against a resilient Northampton Saints side in an unforgettable all-English Champions Cup classic last weekend, which ended 43-41 to Bath.