Challenge Cup draw: Connacht and Ulster both face away trips to Premiership opposition 

Ulster play Harlequins, who are joint top of the roll of honour in the competition's history.

Connacht’s Bundee Aki and head coach Pat Lam of Bristol after the Champions Cup clash last year.

Connacht and Ulster both face tricky assignments as they learned their opponents in the last 16 of the Heineken Challenge Cup.

Disappointing Champions Cup campaigns saw both provinces drop to the Challenge Cup and the draw handed each of them away trips to England. Connacht will go to Leicester Tigers with Ulster facing Harlequins in south-west London.