Worcester to play Coventry on Championship return

Sixways will host Worcester Warriors' first game in three years this October

Worcester Warriors' first game back in professional rugby will be a local derby at home against Coventry on the opening day of the new Championship season.

The match will take place at Sixways on Saturday, 4 October and will mark Warriors' return to the sport for the first time since the former Premiership club were suspended from competition in September 2022 before entering administration.

Worcester also face Ampthill, London Scottish, Nottingham, Cornish Pirates, Richmond and newly-promoted Chinnor at Sixways before the end of the year.

They go to last season's champions Ealing in their first game of 2026 on 3 January and finish the campaign with the return against Coventry on Saturday, 9 May.

Warriors, under new head coach Matt Everard, have carried out an extensive recruitment drive ever since announcing their application to be part of the new, revamped second tier had been successful in April.

The likes of club legend Matt Kvesic, former Wales scrum-half Lloyd Williams, Dragons fly-half Will Reed, Newcastle Falcons full-back Louis Brown, ex-Gloucester and Northampton Saints wing Tom Seabrook and Leicester Tigers forward Matt Rogerson have all signed up to be part of the re-launched club.