Worcester Warriors to rebrand as Sixways Rugby and withdraw bid to enter Championship next season | Rugby Union News

The name Worcester Warriors will no longer exist in English club rugby after the new owners announced a rebrand

Worcester Warriors have withdrawn their proposal to play in the Championship next season and are to change the club’s name to Sixways Rugby, new owners Atlas have confirmed.

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) issued Wasps and Worcester Warriors a “final deadline” to meet conditions that would allow them to compete in the Championship next season, which was initially set for December 12 before being pushed back to February 14.

Worcester’s new owners had yet to be approved by the RFU, while Jim O’Toole and James Sandford’s Atlas consortium confirmed on Thursday that they had withdrawn their bid to join England’s second tier.

O’Toole told BBC Hereford & Worcester: “There were a number of key clauses in the contract that we couldn’t sign.

“This decision will clearly upset and annoy a number of people.”

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