Match Details
🤝 Ulster Rugby v Munster Rugby<br>
🗓 Friday 22 April, 7.35pm<br>
🏟 Kingspan Stadium<br>
🏆 United Rugby Championship Round 16<br>
📺 Live on BBC NI, Premier Sports & RTE
Tickets
Match tickets are still available via the link below. Note that all tickets must be pre-purchased online as none will be available at the turnstiles.
Officials
Referee: Jaco Peyper <br>
AR: Andrew Cole, Paul Haycock<br>
TMO: Brian MacNeice
Campaign so far
It will be a meeting of second versus fourth in the URC standings, with Ulster currently three points ahead of the southern province.
After 15 rounds of competition, Ulster have won 10 with five defeats, while Munster's record to date shows 9 wins and 6 losses.
With just three regular season games left, the race for the URC playoffs is heating up. The top eight will make it through, with the top four earning home advantage for the quarter-finals.
Did you know?
- Ulster Rugby have lost their last two United Rugby Championship matches and have not lost three successive league games since 2018.
- The Ulster men have won their last seven matches at Kingspan Stadium in the Championship since Connacht beat them there during last season’s Rainbow Cup.
- Ulster have won both previous home games they have played against fellow Irish provinces this season.
- Munster Rugby's only victory in their last four United Rugby Championship encounters was 51-22 against Benetton Rugby in Cork on the 25 March.
- The Munster men have lost their last four away games in all competitions and have not lost five in succession on their travels since 2006.
- Munster beat Ulster 18-13 at Thomond Park on the 8 January and have not achieved a Championship season’s double over the men from the North since 2016/17.
- Munster have lost on the last four occasions they have visited Belfast since their victory there by a solitary point in October 2016.
Last Time Out
Munster last visited Kingspan Stadium in January 2021, when tries from Matt Faddes and Player of the Match Ethan McIlroy saw Ulster record a 15-10 victory.