Six teams have battled it out since October in the Rugby Europe Super Cup competition and on Saturday the champions will be crowned.
Spanish side Castilla y Leon Iberians and Lusitanos from Portugal will contest the cup final at the National Rugby Center in Amsterdam in the Netherlands with local favourites Delta and Belgian side Brussels Devils meeting first in the bronze final.
Czechia’s Bohemia Warriors and Romanian Wolves are the two sides from the event not in action having not made it into the knock-out phase.
Last Friday, Iberians won their last four tie at home to Delta at the Estadio Nueva Balastera in Palencia, but they certainly did not have things all their own way before coming through it 24-19.
Lusitanos were too strong for the Devils at the CAR Jamor stadium in Lisbon in the second last four tie last Saturday, winning 63-14.
In the pool stage before Christmas, Iberians topped the standings with five wins from five with Lusitanos second with four wins from five so the final at 4pm local time (3pm UTC) really should be a cracker.
The sides last met in the pool stage round five decider in Lisbon on December 13 and Iberians eventually won through in that one 26-13.
Iberians raced into a 12-0 lead in that one, but Lusitanos came back into things and it was 12-10 at the break.
Lusitanos then went 13-12 up before a penalty try and a converted one by full-back Beltran Ortega Martin gave Iberians the triumph.
With Spain and Portugal’s national teams in Rugby Europe Championship action soon too, players on both sides will be looking to impress here with not just club silverware but also international caps on their minds.
To kick off an exciting afternoon of action at 1pm local time (noon UTC), Delta, who finished fourth in the pool stage, will look to use the crowd support - and the momentum they gained from pushing Iberians so close last time out - as they look to finish third.
The Brussels Devils - who finished third in the pool - will be no pushovers though that is for sure and, indeed, they have very good recent memories of playing at the National Rugby Center in Amsterdam as they won 38-17 versus Delta at the venue as recently as December 6.
In that round four pool phase clash, the Devils got off to a great start when their skipper, the No.8 Felipe Geraghty, went over for an unconverted try.
It then got even better for them after 14 minutes when his fellow back-row Flor Van Den Bussche went over for try number two with stand-off Guillem Fernandez Grau converting to make it 12-0.
Then, in the lead up to half-time, the Devils had a man in the sin bin and Delta scored an unconverted try via back-row Tom Boggemann to give them hope and make it 12-5 at half-time.
After the break, the Devils started well and they bagged their third try thanks to forward power. They were awarded a seven-point penalty try and it was 19-5.
By the 55th minute and with a man in the bin for the Delta, the Devils lead was stretched to 26-5 when winger Miguel Fachada finished superbly well and Fernandez Grau converted.
They were on a roll now and try number five came eight minutes later when, after a neat team move, winger Mathieu Hautier went over for a five-pointer.
That made it 31-5 and then Van Den Bussche’s second try, converted by Fernandez Grau, made it 38-5.
Late on Delta scored two tries through No.8 Jack Slob and winger Bjorn Dolman, with one converted, but the evening belonged to the Devils as it finished 38-17.
For sure the Super Cup finals day will be intense for the four teams involved and a new champions will come in the history of the competition.
