Toulon vow to boycott Euro breakaway in quotas row

European champions Toulon will not take part in the proposed Anglo-French tournament and will remain in the Heineken Cup as a protest against the French league’s plan to limit the number of foreign players, club president Mourad Boudjellal said.

“Given the quotas the league wants to impose on us, we will go play the [existing] European Cup next season because ERC [European Rugby Cup] does not have quotas on foreign players, contrary to the LNR’s ruling,” Boudjellal told French media.

Boudjellal, however, did not mention a withdrawal from the French Top 14, the competition in which the quotas would apply.