{"id":354299,"date":"2011-03-31T19:04:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T19:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/31\/twickenham-to-host-heineken-final\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T19:04:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T19:04:11","slug":"twickenham-to-host-heineken-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/31\/twickenham-to-host-heineken-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Twickenham to host Heineken final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"226\" cellpadding=\"0\" readability=\"1\">\n<tr readability=\"2\">\n<td readability=\"4\">\n<div readability=\"7\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/e763b57c951718_twik.jpg.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Twickenham\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Twickenham last hosted the European final in 2007<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Twickenham has been announced as the venue for the 2012 Heineken Cup final.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The last time the showpiece fixture was held at the stadium was 2007, when Wasps beat Leicester. <\/p>\n<p>The match will take place on the weekend of 19-20 May 2012 and will be the fourth time the London ground has staged a European final. <\/p>\n<p>Next season&#8217;s competition will begin three weeks later than usual, on the weekend of November 11-13, to allow for the end of the New Zealand World Cup. <\/p>\n<p><!-- E SF --><\/p>\n<p>The international tournament reaches its climax at Eden Park in Auckland on October 23. <\/p>\n<p>The Amlin Challenge Cup will begin on the same weekend as the Heineken Cup, with a second set of fixtures taking place the following weekend. <\/p>\n<p>There will then be a set of back-to-back matches in both competitions in December (8-11 and 15-18) and January (12-15 and 19-22). <\/p>\n<p>Quarter-final ties will be played over the weekend of 5-8 April 2012 and the semi-finals will take place between 27-29 May. <\/p>\n<p>The Challenge Cup final will be contested on the same weekend as the Twickenham final, at a venue which has yet to be confirmed. <\/p>\n<p>Toulouse beat Biarritz to win the 2010 Heineken Cup in Paris, while Cardiff Blues defeated Toulon in Marseille to take last year&#8217;s Challenge Cup.\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- E BO --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/e763b57c951718_twik.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/rugby_union\/9442564.stm\" title=\"Twickenham to host Heineken final\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twickenham to host Heineken final<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Twickenham last hosted the European final in 2007 Twickenham has been announced as the venue for the 2012 Heineken Cup final. The last time the showpiece fixture was held at the stadium was 2007, when Wasps beat Leicester. The match will take place on the weekend of 19-20 May 2012 and will be the fourth time the London ground has staged a European final<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Twickenham to host Heineken final - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/31\/twickenham-to-host-heineken-final\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Twickenham to host Heineken final - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Twickenham last hosted the European final in 2007 Twickenham has been announced as the venue for the 2012 Heineken Cup final. 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