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The 2015–16 Pro12 (also known as the ''Guinness Pro12'' for sponsorship reasons) will be the fifteenth season of the professional rugby union competition originally known as the Celtic League, and the sixth with its current four-country format. It will be the second season to be referred to as the ''Guinness Pro12''. Glasgow are the defending champions having beaten second seeded team Munster 31–13 in the previous season's play-off final, taking their first ''Pro12'' title. Thus, the Warriors became the first Scottish team to win a professional trophy, beating Edinburgh's appearance in the final of the 2014–15 European Rugby Challenge Cup. The twelve competing teams are the four Irish teams: Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster; two Italian teams: Benetton Treviso and Zebre; two Scottish teams: Edinburgh and Glasgow Warriors and four Welsh teams: Cardiff Blues, Newport Gwent Dragons, Ospreys and Scarlets. ==Changes for the season== With the Heineken Cup being replaced by the 20-team European Rugby Champions Cup in the 2014–15 season, the Pro12 table had a greater impact on qualification. Though the qualification was decided by the league table in the 2014–15 season, teams were not aware this would be the case until April 2014. Under the previous format, the Pro12 provided a minimum of ten teams, with Scotland and Italy providing two teams each, and Ireland and Wales both providing three. The new system saw one place now being reserved for the highest finishing Pro12 team from each of four participating countries and three other qualifiers based solely on league position, for a total of seven teams. The other teams were entered in the new second-tier competition, the European Rugby Challenge Cup. Starting in the 2015–16 competition, the 20th tournament spot will be decided by a play-off involving the Pro12's highest-finishing team that has not already qualified, the seventh highest finishing club from France's Top 14 and the seventh highest finishing club from the English Premiership. The play-off was initially planned to involve two Pro12 teams, but that plan was scrapped due to fixture clashes with the Top 14. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2015–16 Pro12」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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