Rugby Union could change forever with ‘breakaway league to be played in F1-style festivals across the world’

RUGBY UNION could beryllium acceptable to for an unprecedented alteration amid plans for a "Formula 1 style" breakaway league, according to reports.

Talks are understood to beryllium astatine an "advanced stage" for an eight-team franchise format featuring the apical 200 players successful the world.

It would instrumentality spot crossed a big of large cities, acting arsenic a "rugby circus" - overmuch similar F1 does connected a fortnightly basis.

UK and US investors, led by London-based planetary advisory steadfast Milltown Partners, would guarantee the contention is the biggest lawsuit going connected successful each metropolis connected that peculiar weekend.

According to The Telegraph, a "significant majority" of the sport's apical players person already committed to the project.

It could pb to players having to take betwixt nine and state - with a tribunal conflict of up to £500million expected to ensue betwixt organisers of the breakaway league and nationalist unions and governing bodies.

Players, who would beryllium auctioned disconnected to the 8 teams, would gain salaries successful the portion of £700,000 - with organisers taking inspiration from the Indian Premier League and LIV Golf.

The provisional commencement day is 2026 successful the US.

The Times are reporting each acceptable of fixtures - which would spot the 8 franchises look each different doubly crossed 14 rounds - would see concerts and amusement "to prosecute caller audiences".

Investors person besides pledged to acceptable up a full-time women's nonrecreational league.

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The breakaway league is the biggest effort to alteration the cloth of rugby union since Australian businessman Kerry Packer sought to enlistee players backmost successful 1995 erstwhile the athletics went professional.

On that occasion, the unions ended up blocking the determination and retained control.

But the athletics is astatine a precipice aft caller World Rugby president Brett Robinson warned connected Thursday that the crippled is astatine "crisis point".

One root for the breakaway league told The Telegraph: "We privation much instrumentality engagement, a amended merchandise connected the field, less games for players and a commercialized exemplary to let much wealth to travel into the crippled astatine each level by appealing to caller audiences.

"We privation to region barriers of introduction to the athletics by taking it to each corners of the world.

"There volition beryllium a afloat merchandise for planetary games due to the fact that that is the pinnacle for each player, but we privation to heighten and amplify the athletics to support its future."

Non-disclosure agreements are understood to person been signed by rugby agents and executives successful an effort to further negotiations.