Toulon v Munster in the Champions Cup: kick-off time, TV details and team news
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW: It's back to European rugby this weekend and Munster make the trip to France to take on Toulon on Sunday afternoon. Picture: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile
This weekend we return to the Investec Champions Cup after the Christmas period. It was a mixed bag for Munster who won their away clash to Ospeys but Leinster got revenge for their defeat at home earlier in the season when they defeated the Munster men 13-8 at Thomond and their second interpro of the festive period saw McMillan's lose away to Ulster 28-3.
Munster will be hoping to get back to winning ways but face a tough clash away to Toulon. Pool two is very tight with five of the six teams currently on five points, with leaders Bath sitting top of the table by a single point on six.
Both Munster and Toulon shipped heavy defeats last weekend in their resepective leagues and both sides will be looking to get back on track when they go head-to-head.
Here's all you need to know ahead of the game.
The game will take place in Stade Felix Mayol in Toulon.
The match kicks off at 1pm Irish time on Sunday January .
The game will be shown live on Premier Sports 2.
It is an all English refereeing team for the clash with Karl Dickson the man in the middle with George Selwood and Simon Harding running the line and Hamish Smales in the TMO hotseat.
It was a chilly start to 2026 for Munster and Clayton McMillan as Ulster stamped their authority all over the New Year URC derby in Belfast.
The question remains, however, whether this was a temporary Arctic blast or a more concerning ill wind foreshadowing more troubling times.
This Sunday’s resumption of the Champions Cup pool campaign against Toulon at their Stade Felix Mayol may offer some answers, although an epic performance by the Mediterranean at the weekend will not necessarily ease the concerns of a head coach so deeply disappointed by his players’ failure to rise to the occasion of a URC derby on a deep midwinter’s night far from home.
His captain on Friday evening, Diarmuid Barron, spoke of the “pure excitement” of a return to European rugby that would follow the “bit of soul-searching” ahead of Tuesday’s review and the beginning in earnest of matchweek, but the New Zealander was peeved to say the least at the emphasis within Munster that is placed on the Champions Cup when his side had failed to throw a punch in this 28-3 loss. Read Simon Lewis' full article here.
Hooker Tolu Latu and scrum-half Nolann Le Garrec both scored twice as Ronan O’Gara’s La Rochelle warmed up a full-house on a frozen evening at Marcel Deflandre with a 10-try 66-0 win over a youthful Toulon squad that barely threw a punch all evening.
The one-way mismatch feared since the squads were announced on Saturday evening quickly became reality, as — a week before O’Gara’s side face Leinster in Dublin in the Champions Cup — they benefited from what was effectively an extended training ground run-out against Pierre Mignoni’s academy-heavy Toulon Hypotheticals, featuring 10 academy players, including three making their senior debuts.
The match may have been billed as a foregone conclusion, with Mignoni’s focus clearly on Munster, but O’Gara and La Rochelle know well enough to be wary of such certainties. A year to the day previously, a strong La Rochelle side had struggled to beat a Toulouse side so lacking in experience that the term ‘callow’ was overqualified. Read James Harrington's full article here.
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