BUCS Super Rugby · 2026-27

Cardiff Met Men's Rugby (BUCS Super Rugby)

Checked 2026-09-04 against bucs.org.uk

The standard

Division	BUCS Super Rugby
Season	2026-27
Playoffs	This division plays a post-season, dates below

BUCS Super Rugby is the top tier of British university rugby. League standings and results live on BUCS's Playwaze platform, whose robots.txt disallows automated access, so they're genuinely not available here rather than a gap we intend to fill by working around that.

What the season involves

League fixtures	18 this season
Season runs	23 September to 10 March
Match day	Wednesday (18 of 18 fixtures)

Derived from the fixture calendar below, nothing assumed.

The programme

Head coach	Dai Young (Head of Performance Rugby); Amber Regardsoe (Head of Rugby)
Scholarship	Cardiff Met Sport Scholarships give financial awards (totalling £7,000 over three undergraduate years for home students, £11,000 for international, with postgraduate awards too) plus access to dedicated coaches, in-house support services and integrated academic staff; performance-programme athletes, including Men's and Women's Rugby, are identified through recruitment rather than applying.
Trials	To join and play for Cardiff Met RFC each student must pay the £40 SU membership fee (which includes competition entry and transport) plus £80 club membership; queries to rroberts3@cardiffmet.ac.uk.
Dual-career support	TASS accredited

Scholarship detail and criteria: the university's own page. Facts above come from official university pages only.

2026-27 fixtures

Round	Date	Fixture
1	23/09/2026	Cardiff Met vs Brunel
2	30/09/2026	Hartpury vs Cardiff Met
3	07/10/2026	Cardiff vs Cardiff Met
4	14/10/2026	Cardiff Met vs Loughborough
5	21/10/2026	Bath vs Cardiff Met
6	04/11/2026	Leeds Beckett vs Cardiff Met
7	11/11/2026	Cardiff Met vs Nottingham
8	18/11/2026	Cardiff Met vs Exeter
9	02/12/2026	Durham vs Cardiff Met
10	09/12/2026	Cardiff Met vs Cardiff
11	16/12/2026	Exeter vs Cardiff Met
12	20/01/2027	Loughborough vs Cardiff Met
13	27/01/2027	Cardiff Met vs Durham
14	03/02/2027	Brunel vs Cardiff Met
15	10/02/2027	Cardiff Met vs Bath
16	24/02/2027	Cardiff Met vs Hartpury
17	03/03/2027	Cardiff Met vs Leeds Beckett
18	10/03/2027	Nottingham vs Cardiff Met

Playoffs

Men's BUCS Super Rugby Milk Championship Quarter Finals	31/03/2027
Men's BUCS Super Rugby Milk Championship Semi Finals	07/04/2027
Men's BUCS Super Rugby Milk Championship Final	21/04/2027

Sourced directly from bucs.org.uk, 18 fixtures for the 2026-27 season. See the methodology for the full sourcing policy.

More university rugby

See every BUCS Super Rugby team: the full list.