ERCC: Ulster’s opponents in next year’s Champions Cup announced

Ulster will play Scarlets, Racing 92 and Leicester Tigers in the Heineken Champions Cup 2018-2019 group stage after the draw was made this afternoon.

The meeting between Ulster and Racing is the first time the sides have met in a European group stage while they last faced Leicester Tigers in the 2015/15 campaign. It is the first time that Ulster and Scarlets have been drawn together in the same group since 2008-2009 in the competition.

It is a tough group as Scarlets were beaten finalists in the PRO14 this season and Racing 92 were runners up to Leinster in the European Champions Cup and semi finalists in the TOP14.

Racing will add Simon Zebo and Finn Russell to their roster at the conclusion of their contracts with Munster and Glasgow Warriors respectively, with the latter having big boots to fill as he replaces Dan Carter who is off to Japan at the end of the season. Zebo links up with Donnacha Ryan at the Parisian side.

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