The Ospreys will kick off their Heineken Champions Cup campaign by playing hosts to English title winners Leicester.
Wales’ sole representatives in the European top tier event will entertain Tommy Reffell’s Tigers at the Swansea.com Stadium on the weekend of December 9-11. They then face back-to-back games against French champions Montpellier before travelling to Welford Road for their final group fixture in mid-January.
As for the other three Welsh teams, who are all in the second-tier Challenge Cup, the opening round sees Cardiff at home to Brive, the Dragons away to Wasps and the Scarlets hosting the Cheetahs. The visit of Brive to the Arms Park will bring back distant memories of when the two sides met in the 1997 Heineken Cup semi-final, with the French club going on to lift that trophy that year. Cardiff’s other group opponents are Newcastle.
