Date and kick-off time: Friday, April 10, 2026, 8pm

Weather forecast: 7c, light rain

Live television coverage: Premier Sports

Referee: Andrew Brace (Ireland)

Assistant referees: Eoghan Cros (Ireland) and Ben Breakspear (Wales)

TMO: Olly Hodges (Ireland)

Bath: 15 Tom de Glanville; 14 Henry Arundell, 13 Ollie Lawrence, 12 Cameron Redpath, 11 Will Muir; 10 Finn Russell, 9 Ben Spencer (c); 1 Beno Obano, 2 Tom Dunn, 3 Vilikesa Sela; 4 Quinn Roux, 5 Charlie Ewels; 6 Guy Pepper, 7 Sam Underhill, 8 Miles Reid.

Replacements: 16 Kepueli Tuipulotu, 17 Francois van Wyk, 18 Thomas du Toit, 19 Ross Molony, 20 Ted Hill, 21 Bernand van der Linde, 22 Santiago Carreras, 23 Alfie Barbeary.

Saints: 15 George Furbank (c); 14 Tommy Freeman, 13 Rory Hutchinson, 12 Fraser Dingwall, 11 Ollie Sleightholme; 10 Fin Smith, 9 Archie McParland; 1 Danilo Fischetti, 2 Curtis Langdon, 3 Cleopas Kundiona; 4 Tom Lockett, 5 JJ Van Der Mescht; 6 Josh Kemeny, 7 Tom Pearson, 8 Henry Pollock.

Replacements: 16 Craig Wright, 17 Emmanuel Iyogun, 18 Elliot Millar Mills, 19 Ed Prowse, 20 Callum Chick, 21 Alex Mitchell, 22 Tom Litchfield, 23 George Hendy.

Not considered for Saints selection: Alex Coles, Trevor Davison, Sam Graham, Luke Green, Tom James, Henry Lumley, James Ramm, Edoardo Todaro and Charlie Ulcoq.

Most recent meeting: December 27, 2025: Bath 21 Saints 41 (Gallagher PREM)

Bath head of rugby Johann van Graan: “It is the Premiership champions playing against the losing side in last season’s European Champions Cup final. Northampton are a team we respect so much and have been involved in some big battles in the last few years. And what’s at stake if you get through this is you play either the winners of last year’s Champions Cup in Bordeaux or the French champions Toulouse. It is important to acknowledge and enjoy these moments because, certainly at this club, they haven’t happened for a long time. We haven’t spoken about that game (when Saints won at Bath back in December) at all. An amazing thing about this group, you have heard me say it maybe a thousand times, we always start on zero. We took our learnings back in December, just after Christmas, they were better than us and we learned from it and moved on to the next week. They are a team we respect a lot and are currently playing some fantastic rugby. They have some of the best players in the Premiership, they score some fantastic tries and they played in last season’s Champions Cup final in Cardiff against Bordeaux and this is their third quarter-final in a row in this competition. So it is a team with some big history in this competition, but all that matters is what happens at 8pm on Friday night. It is a knockout game, and it is going to be a great occasion.”

Saints director of rugby Phil Dowson: “What you see week in, week out from them is a very, very high quality squad and they're very well coached. They're the reigning champions in the PREM, they won a treble last year and we're aware it's going to be a very big challenge on Friday night. You take elements of the game from it (Saints’ win at Bath in December) and you take elements of our performance, but you understand that's obviously being spoken about in their meeting rooms and we need to be ready for the intensity they're going to bring because they will want to make sure it doesn't happen again. We're aware of it, we've spoken about the things that worked for us that day and trying to replicate them on Friday night, but knowing it's a completely different game and a completely different psychological remit really.”

Opposition danger man: Bath, like Saints, have so many threats that it’s tough to highlight just one, but Finn Russell is capable of taking any game by the scruff of the neck, and the Scotland fly-half will be looking to do that here.