2024 United Rugby Championship Grand Final
football match
The 2024 United Rugby Championship Grand Final was the final match of the 2023–24 United Rugby Championship (URC) season. It was contested by the Bulls from South Africa and Scotland's Glasgow Warriors. Glasgow won the match 21–16, coming back from 13–0 down just before half-time to claim their second URC title.
The final was held in South Africa for the third time in succession, with a second appearance for the Bulls following their defeat in 2022, and a first appearance for Glasgow Warriors who are the first Scottish team, and the first team outside of South Africa and Ireland, to reach the final since the competition adopted its current format. For the third year in succession, the top-seeded team at the start of the play-offs failed to reach the final.
Route to the final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).
Match
Venue
With Glasgow's elimination of top-ranked Munster in the semi-finals, the Bulls were the highest-ranked team to reach the final; they nominated their usual home of Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, which has a listed capacity of 50,000, as the venue for the final. It was the third year in a row that the final had been played in South Africa, but the first time it had been played at Loftus Versfeld, although the stadium had previously hosted the 2009 Super 14 final, in which the Bulls beat the Chiefs 61–17.
Officials
Italian referee Andrea Piardi was named as the main official for the match, taking charge of his second United Rugby Championship final in succession. He made his Six Nations Championship debut in 2024, refereeing the game between Ireland and Wales, and was also part of the refereeing team for the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France.
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