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Referees confirmed for back-to-back Champions Cup games

Mathieu Raynal will take charge of Tigers' home European Champions Cup game against Munster Rugby
Mathieu Raynal will take charge of Tigers' home European Champions Cup game against Munster Rugby

European Professional Club Rugby have confirmed the referees for Leicester Tigers’ back-to-back Champions Cup Pool 4 games against Munster Rugby.

Jerome Garces, of France, will take charge of the Round 3 game when Munster host Tigers at Thomond Park on Saturday, December 9. Kick-off is at 7.45pm.

The Round 4 game on Sunday, December 17, when Tigers welcome Munster to Welford Road for the return fixture, will be refereed by Mathieu Raynal of France.

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Elsewhere, Ireland's Joy Neville will make history by becoming the first woman to referee a European professional club fixture when she takes charge of the Challenge Cup Round 4 match between Bordeaux-Bègles and Enisei-STM.

The former Ireland international, who won 70 caps for her country including a Six Nations Grand Slam in 2013, will go into the record books when she referees the Pool 1 game at Stade Chaban-Delmas on Friday, December 15.

Neville has already been appointed as an assistant referee at Champions Cup, Challenge Cup, Continental Shield and Guinness PRO14 levels, and she also took charge of the Women's Rugby World Cup final between New Zealand and England in August.

In advance of her Challenge Cup debut, she will officiate as an assistant referee at the Barbarians v Tonga game at Thomond Park on Friday, and at the Spain v Canada and the France v Japan internationals later this month.