The draw for the pools for next season’s Heineken Cup will take place in Paris tomorrow (Tuesday 9 June).

You can watch matters as they unfold live on the European Rugby Cup website www.ercrugby.com  and log on here for first reaction to the draws for Scotland’s two representatives in the competition, Edinburgh and Glasgow Warriors.

For the purpose of the draw the 24 qualified teams are graded through their ERC European rankings and are divided into four Tiers. Rankings are based on European performance over the past four seasons in the Heineken Cup and knockout stages of the European Challenge Cup.

Each Pool will have one team from each of the four Tier levels.

No two teams from the same country will be drawn in the same Pool except for the seventh club from England (Harlequins based on European ranking) who will be drawn into a Pool with another English team.

The winner of the 14th Heineken Cup Final (Leinster) will be seeded in the first Tier and will be drawn into a Pool first.

Heineken Cup 2009/10 Teams and Tiers

TIER 1
Leinster, Munster, Leicester Tigers, Toulouse, Bath Rugby, Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque

TIER 2
Cardiff Blues, Stade Français Paris, Gloucester Rugby, Perpignan, Ospreys, London Irish

TIER 3
Northampton Saints, Sale Sharks, ASM Clermont Auvergne, Scarlets, Ulster Rugby, Newport Gwent Dragons

TIER 4
Harlequins, Glasgow Warriors, Edinburgh, Benetton Treviso, Brive, Viadana