WHILE the Champions Cup enters its knockout stage on the weekend, the Challenge Cup will reach the end of the group stage ahead of its last 16 stage which will be played over one weekend.
Four clubs have already qualified, Gloucester, Toulon, London Irish and Lyon. They will be joined by six more and the 16 will be made up by teams who failed to get out of their Champions Cup groups: Northampton, Bath, Wasps, Glasgow, Cardiff and Castres.
Only one of the 15 Challenge Cup teams has no hope of making the next stage, Zebre, who have taken one point from their three matches, although the Dr...