Premier Sports Rugby: The new home of live rugby union on Virgin TV

Here’s a real treat for rugby union fans: a fantastic new channel dedicated to rugby, bringing you coverage of hundreds of matches each season, including some of the world’s best club competitions. Welcome to Premier Sports Rugby.

Now available to all Premier Sports subscribers, Premier Sports Rugby HD (CH 553) will show all 63 matches from the Investec Champions Cup throughout the season. That means it’s your one-stop shop for this elite-level tournament that features the best club sides in the world, including England’s top teams. And with the knockout rounds beginning at the start of April and the final at the end of May, you’ve got some seriously exciting rugby coming your way very soon.

Premier Sports Rugby is also the place to watch the EPCR Challenge Cup, another high-class tournament contested by teams from the top leagues across Europe and South Africa. Coverage includes all matches from the quarter-finals onwards, as well as plenty of action from earlier in the competition.

And that’s not all. Premier Sports Rugby will also be showing every single match from the United Rugby Championship, another top-quality competition featuring the leading teams from Ireland, Italy, Scotland, South Africa and Wales. That’s a whopping 151 matches across the season. Premier Sports Rugby also brings you more than 100 matches from the French Top 14 league, which involves many of the planet’s best players, and two matches from each round of fixtures from both the Japanese Rugby League One and the US’s Major League Rugby.

Add all that together and what have you got? A slice of sporting heaven for rugby fans.

It couldn’t be easier for rugby fans to find the best action, with all these matches in one place: simply tune in to Premier Sports Rugby HD (CH 553). This dedicated rugby channel is available at no extra cost to all Premier Sports subscribers, so if you want to catch all the action on the channel with the most comprehensive coverage in the UK, it’s the place to be.

As well as being the home of rugby union on TV, Premier Sports has live football from Scotland including the Scottish Premiership, Scottish Cup and Premier Sports Cup, as well as extensive coverage of the top two divisions in Spain featuring the likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid. There’s also live NHL ice hockey plus games from the British and Swedish leagues, plus live motor racing from the NASCAR championship in the US. You’ll find all this brilliant sporting action on Premier Sports 1 HD (CH 551) and Premier Sports 2 HD (CH 552).

Don’t miss out on all this incredible rugby action from the Investec Champions Cup, the EPCR Challenge Cup, United Rugby Championship and Top 14, plus Scottish and Spanish football, NHL ice hockey, NASCAR racing and more. You can add Premier Sports 1 HD, Premier Sports 2 HD and Premier Sports Rugby to your TV bundle for £15.99 a month.

To do so, simply go to Apps > Subscriptions on your Virgin TV Box and follow the instructions.