BT Sport has secured the exclusive live rights to screen the World Rugby Under-20 Championship for the first time this June.
Twelve teams will be battling it out across Italy and the tournament will be shown live on BT Sport from Tuesday, June 2, through to the final on Saturday, June 20.
The tournament, which was previously televised by Sky Sports, sees the best young talent in the world compete against each other and the stars of the future will be on show.
All games featuring the Home Nations and Ireland will be shown live during the tournament, with extended highlights also available across BT Sport’s network of channels throughout the event.
England has won the tournament, formerly known as the Junior World Championship, for the past two years and will be hoping to make it three years in a row in 2015.
The 2015 competition will mark the first time that BT Sport has televised a major event organised by World Rugby, formerly known as the IRB.
As well as the 2015 World Rugby Under-20 Championship, BT Sport showed 69 matches from the Aviva Premiership and 43 from the European Champions and Challenge Cup during the 2014/15 season.
Simon Green, Sports Channel Director at BT Sport, said: “BT Sport is proud of its commitment to rugby union and our live coverage of the World Rugby Union Under-20 Championships builds on our offering to rugby fans.
“This will be a great opportunity for viewers to see future global stars on show and promises to be an exciting tournament in Italy.”
Murray Barnett, Head of Commercial, Broadcast and Marketing, World Rugby added: “We are delighted to be partnering with a broadcaster that is passionate about Rugby for what promises to be an exciting Under 20 Championship where the future stars of rugby will showcase their talent in what will be rugby’s biggest-ever year.”
The best young rugby talent in the world will be on show on BT Sport this June as the channel broadcasts live coverage of the 2015 World Rugby Under-20 Championship from Italy.
Consisting of three groups of four, which include games like New Zealand against Ireland and England v France, the group stages will be played between Tuesday, June, 2 and Wednesday June 10 in Parma, Calvisano and Viadana.
On Monday, June, 15 both semi-finals will take place in Calvisano ahead of the third/fourth place play-off and the final in Cremona on Saturday, June, 20.
For more information about the 2015 Under-20 Championship, including fixtures, match schedule and standings, visit the official World Rugby website.
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