Magners League : Stats : Competition Structure

The Magners League season delivers you an 18 weekend calendar when all ten teams will play each other home and away and the winners after the all the games have been completed will be crowned the Magners League Champions.

The league will mostly take place between the third weekend of September 2008 and the middle of May 2009, although some Welsh fixtures have been brought forward so that the Regions can avoid playing mid week fixtures.

There will be no League matches on the five RBS Six Nations Championship weekends, and this season the weekend before the Championship begins will be left free.

All three Unions will use the league as the sole determinant for European qualification and seeding.

Mike Phillips still believes he and his Lions colleagues can take the Springboks to task in the third and final Test of the 2009 tour of South Africa and restore some pride the in the jersey.

IRB World Player of the Year Shane Williams says it has taken the British & Irish Lions two full days to overcome the disappointment of losing the series against the Springboks.