Bath ended a 29-year wait for the English title at Twickenham, holding off Leicester Tigers 23-21 in the Premiership final to complete a treble.
Bath beat Leicester Tigers 23-21 in the Gallagher Premiership Rugby Final at Twickenham’s Allianz Stadium on Saturday 14 June 2025. The match settled the 2024-25 English club season.
The league dates from 1987, when English club rugby first organised itself into a national competition. For its first decade the title went to whoever finished top of the table.
The play-off final came later. It turned a nine-month league into a single afternoon, the last fixture of the club season.
The two finalists had dominated the English game for two decades and had never met in a final. Leicester arrived chasing a record-extending 12th title. Bath had not won a domestic trophy since their 1996 league and cup double.
Bath came to Twickenham with the Premiership Cup and the European Challenge Cup already won. Before a crowd of 81,708, Jack van Poortvliet gave Leicester an early lead, and tries from Thomas du Toit and Max Ojomoh put Bath clear.
Leicester came back to within two points with three minutes left, and Bath held on for the treble. Ojomoh’s father Steve had helped Bath to their last domestic trophy on the same ground 29 years earlier.