Gallagher Premiership Rugby Final 2022 Preview & Predictions | Premiership Rugby Leicester v Saracens 2022
Premiership Rugby, officially known as Gallagher Premiership Rugby, or the Gallagher Premiership for sponsorship reasons, is an English professional rugby union competition. The Premiership consists of thirteen clubs, rising to fourteen in 2022, and is the top division of the English rugby union system. Premiership clubs qualify for Europe’s two main club competitions, the European Rugby Champions Cup and the European Rugby Challenge Cup. The winner of the second division, the RFU Championship is promoted to the Premiership and until 2020, the team finishing at the bottom of the Premiership each season was relegated to the Championship. The competition is regarded as one of the three top-level professional leagues in the Northern and Western Hemispheres, along with the Top 14 in France, and the cross-border United Rugby Championship for teams from Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Italy and South Africa.
The competition has been played since 1987, and has evolved into the current Premiership system. The current champions are Harlequins. The most recently promoted side are Saracens, who returned to the top flight in 2021.
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Leicester Tigers (officially Leicester Football Club) are a professional rugby union club based in Leicester, England. They play in Premiership Rugby, England’s top division of rugby.
The club was founded in 1880 and since 1892 plays its home matches at Mattioli Woods Welford Road in the south of the city. The club has been known by the nickname Tigers since at least 1885. In the 2020-21 Premiership Rugby season Tigers finished 6th, this entitled them to compete in the 2021–22 European Rugby Champions Cup. The current head coach is Steve Borthwick, who was appointed as head coach in July 2020.
Leicester have won 20 major titles. They were European Champions twice, back-to-back in 2001 and 2002; have won a record 10 English Championships, and have won eight Anglo-Welsh Cups, most recently in 2017. Leicester last won the Premiership Rugby title in the 2013 and appeared in a record nine successive Premiership finals, from 2005 to 2013. Leicester is one of only four teams never to have been relegated from the top division. Leicester have appeared in five European finals, the joint-second most overall, as well as the two victories they have also lost finals three times, in 1997, 2007 and 2009. In 2021 they played in the European Rugby Challenge Cup final.
Five Leicester Tigers players were members of the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final winning England side including captain Martin Johnson.
Saracens Football Club are an English professional rugby union club based in North London, England. After a year in the RFU Championship, they returned to Premiership Rugby, the first tier of rugby in England, for the current 2021–22 season.
Established in 1876, the club has spent most of its existence in and around Southgate in the London Borough of Enfield. Since 2012, Saracens have played their home games at Copthall stadium (or StoneX Stadium for sponsorship reasons) in Hendon, in the borough of Barnet. Before this, they played at Vicarage Road in Watford for 15 years. The club’s home playing colours are black and red.
Saracens have won 10 major trophies. They were European champions three times, in 2016, 2017 and 2019. They have won the English Premiership five times, most recently in 2019, and won the domestic cup twice in 1998 and 2015. They have also won the second division title three times, in 1989, 1995 and 2021.
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Loved seeing itoje getting stepped 😂😂
Tigers' composure to win the final is emblematic of their attitude this season: never say die. Freddie Burns with the drop goal of his career. What a redemptive arc for him considering his two previously missed kicks. Couldn't be happier for them. Leicester are back! #COYT
PS: I think Leicester should also be commended for not only playing Saracens at their own game, but beating them at it and preventing them from even scoring a single try. In a way, the scoreline almost flattered Saracens.