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Leicester Tigers (officially Leicester Football Club) are a professional rugby union club based in Leicester, England. They play in Premiership Rugby , England's top division of rugby. The club was founded in 1880 and since 1892 plays its home matches at Mattioli Woods Welford Road in the south of the city.
The third men's edition and the first women's edition of the Slater Cup, played at Kingsholm on 25 November 2023, was a double-header featuring the men's game first followed by the inaugural women's Slater cup, a Premiership Women's Rugby game between Gloucester-Hartpury and Leicester Tigers Women.
Everything you need to know ahead of the last-16 Carabao Cup fixture
Most points in a Premiership Rugby game: 32 – Tim Stimpson (v Newcastle on 21 September 2001) [6] Most points scored in a single season: 486 (9t, 57c, 109p) – Tim Stimpson in 2000–01 [ 1 ] Most points scored in a season of Premiership Rugby or National League Division 1: 321 – Tim Stimpson ( 1999–2000 ) [ 7 ]
League-leading Harlequins said they set a women’s club rugby record for attendance on Dec. 28 when 18,055 fans watched the team beat Leicester Tigers 42-17 at Twickenham Stadium.
Launched in 1971 the Cup was the first nationwide competition for rugby union clubs in England.It was a straight knock-out cup format, teams were not seeded however with the introduction of leagues the top division side such as Leicester joined the competition in later rounds, and ran until 2005 when it was replaced by the Anglo-Welsh Cup.
Premiership Rugby, officially known as Gallagher Premiership Rugby, or the Gallagher Premiership for sponsorship reasons, [1] is an English professional rugby union competition, consisting of 10 clubs, and is the top division of the English rugby union system.
The Big Game is an annual rugby union match hosted by Harlequins since 2008 and Harlequins Women since 2021. [1] It is held during the Christmas holiday season each year. It is one of the regular home matches in Premiership Rugby for the men's team and in Premiership Women's Rugby for the women's team.