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After 26 regular-season games, the sides finishing in third to sixth will play quarter-finals. The winners of those games will go into semi-finals against the teams who finished first and second, before a final to crown a Champ Rugby winner.<\/p>\n
With no automatic promotion spot, the winner will then enter a two-legged play-off against the Premiership’s bottom side if they meet the top flight’s minimum operating standards., external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n There was no play-off to be promoted from this season’s 12-strong Championship after champions Ealing Trailfinders failed to meet the standards required<\/a> to be admitted to the top flight.<\/p>\n Sixth-placed Coventry also fell short, with Doncaster, who finished fifth, being the only club who would have been eligible to play off against Premiership bottom side Newcastle.<\/p>\n Discussions are under way for a title sponsor and there are plans to stream the league’s matches. <\/p>\n RFU funding for Champ Rugby and parachute payments for relegated sides from the Premiership are still to be confirmed, with no timeline given on when this will be decided.<\/p>\n The current Championship clubs saw their central funding cut from around \u00a3600,000 a year before the Covid-19 pandemic to about \u00a3160,000. This figure will remain the same for the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n