World News – GB – Exeter will face Toulouse and Glasgow Quins in European nightmare

The draw for the 2020/21 Champions Cup campaign took place behind closed doors using a new’ exceptional ‘format

The Exeter Chiefs will meet four-time European winners Toulouse in the group stage of their Champions Cup defense following the draw for the 2020/21 campaign, with the Harlequins also winning a nightmare

A new format has been unveiled by European Professional Club Rugby, with teams split into two groups of 12 this season, with four tiers split into each tier One clubs group, which includes league champions the Premiership, Pro 14 and Top 14, all appear at level one with the finalists beaten, while the other levels are determined by the final league positions

But despite conquering the league and Europe last season, Exeter knew he could face a formidable opponent in Toulouse after his seventh place in the Top 14, with Montpellier the other French option to join the two-time Pool B winners, but fate meant that the four-time Heineken Cup champions will face Rob Baxter again after their recent meeting in last season’s semi-finals

Glasgow Warriors will join them as the Scottish outfit reach the quarter-finals of the competition just two seasons ago

Although each team will only play four games in this year’s group stage, they will still be grouped together in a table depending on Group A or Group B, with the top four of each set going to the quarter-finals. while those teams ranked from fifth to eighth will fall in the round of 16 of the Challenge Cup

But if the Harlequins are to make the round of 16, they’ll need one of the great campaigns in European history The London-based squad will face defeated Racing 92 finalists and two-time champion Munster, leaving Paul Gustard’s side with an uphill battle against two of Europe’s most established teams

Bristol Bears head coach Pat Lam faces a reunion with former club Connacht, the Irish club he led to the 2015/16 Pro12 title, while formidable French side Clermont Auvergne will offer two exciting matches at Ashton Gate and at the Marcel Michelin stadium

Defeated Premiership finalists Wasps enter Pool A as one of the top seeds, earning them contests against Montpellier and the Dragons in what should prove to be a Relatively straightforward draw for Lee Blackett’s side, while Bath will meet the second Welsh side in the competition in the form of the Scarlets, with La Rochelle constituting their support Sale Sharks, who saw their top four prospects last season come to an end when their last match was abandoned due to a coronavirus outbreak within their squad, will meet the beaten Challenge Cup finalists and the three-time Toulon winners, alongside Edinburgh

Gloucester will face Lyon and Ulster in Pool B, while Northampton Saints meet quadruple champion Leinster for the second consecutive season after being reunited alongside Bordeaux-Begles in Pool A

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