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How will it work?

The 20 clubs are split into five pools, with four teams in each pool. With the aim of ensuring fair pools, the teams have been split into four tiers of five teams. The Premiership sides have been ranked by where they finished in the regular season, while the Top 14 and RaboDirect PRO12 rankings take knockout games into account too – so, as losing finalists, Castres are the second seeds rather than Montpellier, who finished the regular season in second. The full rankings are below:

Rank Premiership Top 14 PRO12 1 Saracens Toulon Leinster 2 Northampton Saints Castres Glasgow 3 Leicester Tigers Montpellier Munster 4 Harlequins Racing Métro Ulster 5 Bath Clermont Auvergne Ospreys 6 Sale Sharks Toulouse Scarlets 7 London Wasps Treviso

Saracens, Toulon and Leinster are definitely in tier one, as are two of Northampton, Castres or Glasgow (a separate draw will take place beforehand to decide this). Tier two contains one of the previous three not in tier one, plus Munster, Leicester and Montpellier, as well as one of fourth-ranking clubs. Tier three contains the other three fourth-ranking clubs, along with Ospreys, Bath and Clermont. Tier four contains the Scarlets, Sale, Toulouse, Wasps and Treviso.

There will be no more than two clubs from each league in a pool, while no pool will contain two PRO12 clubs from the same country. Clubs from the same league will be kept apart until the allocation of Tier 4 clubs.

Got all of that? Stay tuned below for the draw, live from midday.

First up it’s the Challenge Cup draw, which you can follow here: https://www.therugbyblog.com/european-rugby-challenge-cup-draw-20142015

Pool 1

Saracens

Munster Rugby

Clermont Auvergne

Sale Sharks

Pool 2

Leinster Rugby

Castres

Harlequins

London Wasps

Pool 3

Toulon

Leicester Tigers

Ulster Rugby

Scarlets

Pool 4

Glasgow Warriors

Montpellier

Bath Rugby

Toulouse

Pool 5

Northampton Saints

Racing Métro

Ospreys

Treviso