Leinster kick off Heineken Cup quarters
Tuesday, 26 January 2010ERC, the tournament organisers, have announced the dates and kick-off times for the Heineken Cup quarter-final matches on the weekend of 9/10/11 April 2010.
Reigning champions Leinster will kick-off the Heineken Cup quarter-finals when they entertain ASM Clermont Auvergne on Friday 9 April.
Munster, who won the title in 2006 and 2008, will be third up on Saturday afternoon when they host the 2000 champions Northampton Saints in a re-match of their recent pool match.
Meanwhile, in the quarter-finals of the Amlin Challenge Cup, Connacht entertain Bourgoin in Galway on Saturday 10 April at 1pm.
Back in the Heineken Cup, the first of the two quarter-finals on French soil will launch the Saturday sequence of matches when Biarritz entertain the Ospreys.
The Pool 2 winners will be taking their fixture across the border into Spain, to play at the 32,000 Estadio Anoeta in San Sebastian.
As well as beating Munster and Sale Sharks in the last eight in Spain, they also defeated Bath there in the semi-finals in 2006.
Their only Heineken Cup defeat in San Sebastian came in 2007 when Northampton Saints pipped them 7-6 in the quarter-finals.
Three times champions Toulouse, who meet Stade Francais Paris in an all-French affair on Sunday 11 April, have also agreed to switch their game to a bigger stadium.
They have already beaten Sale Sharks and Cardiff Blues at Toulouse's 37,000 Stade Municipal this season.
HEINEKEN CUP QUARTER FINALS
(All Kick-Offs Local Time)
FRIDAY, 9 APRIL 2010
20.00 Leinster Rugby v ASM Clermont
SATURDAY, 10 APRIL 2010
16.00 Biarritz Olympique v Ospreys
17.30 Munster v Northampton Saints
SUNDAY, 11 APRIL 2010
17.30 Toulouse v Stade Francais Paris
SEMI-FINALS
1 / 2 MAY, 2010
15th HEINEKEN CUP FINAL
SATURDAY, 22 MAY, 2010 at 6.00pm - STADE DE FRANCE
