2025/26 European Rugby Champions Cup Odds - Leinster and Toulouse favourites for European glory

Simon Lewis

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Last updated: 03 Dec 2025

Simon Lewis 03 Dec 2025

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Leinster & Toulouse are favorites at 3.50 odds.
Defending champs Bordeaux at 4.33 odds.
Bath and Bulls are strong contenders.

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Bordeaux are the defending European champions (Getty Images)

The 2025/26 European Champions Cup kicks off this weekend on 5 December 2025 and will conclude in May 2026. This is widely considered the best rugby tournament in the world and certainly at the top of European rugby union.

Leinster and Toulouse are favourites - as they were last season - at 3.50. However, they were both knocked out at the semi-final stage as Bordeaux went on to beat Northampton Saints in the final. The defending champs are priced at 4.33 with Betway while two-time winners, La Rochelle are available at 15.00.

English Premiership winners, Bath is valued at 8.50 while the runners-up last season, Northampton Saints are paying 17.00 along with the Bulls from South Africa.

2025/26 European Champions Cup Odds

Team	Odds
Leinster	3.50
Toulouse	3.50
Bordeaux	4.33
Bath	8.50
La Rochelle	15.00
Northampton	17.00
Toulon	19.00
Bulls	19.00
Saracens	23.00
Munster	26.00
Glasgow	26.00
Stormers	41.00
Leicester	41.00
Sharks	51.00
Sale	51.00
Bristol	101.00
Harlequins	126.00
Bayonne	126.00
Clermont	126.00
Castres	151.00
Gloucester	201.00
Edinburgh	201.00
Pau	201.00
Scarlets	351.00

Odds correct as of 3 December 2025 with Betway

Simon is a talented sports writer in South Africa with a strong focus on cricket having played first-team level for UCT, including playing at two Universities Weeks.

From a young age Simon was an avid reader of cricket magazines and books, and went on to be Editor of The Googly, CricketScene SA and SA Cricket, in addition to being a Features Writer on SA Sports Illustrated.

He has interviewed most of South Africa's premier cricketers and was the first writer to interview a teenaged Jacques Kallis.

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