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RaboDirect PRO12 Launch Marks Beginning Of New Campaign
The launch of the 2013/2014 RaboDirect PRO12 season took place in Belfast on Tuesday.
Players from each of the twelve teams in the league were in attendance, as well as some members of management from the clubs too.
The season gets underway again with a triple header of games which will take place on Friday the 6th of September.
Each rugby club will play twenty-two games, after which the top four teams in the standings will enter into the playoffs. Through this, an overall winner will be crowned on Saturday the 31st of May 2014.
Last season saw Leinster take home the PRO12 trophy, with a 24-18 defeat of Ulster at the RDS.
This year will be the last year that RaboDirect will be the main sponsor of the league. After two successful years, in which attendances broke the one million mark, this will be the third and final year that the online bank will be involved.
The RaboDirect PRO12 has in the past also been known as the Celtic League, and later, the Magners League.