Stade Toulousain travel to Cardiff Rugby in their Heineken Champions Cup Pool B opener on Saturday as they go in search of a sixth European crown and defend the title they won last season. Cardiff came out on top the last time the two sides faced off in European competition, winning 17-15 away and 18-13 at home in the pool stage of the 2017/18 EPCR Challenge Cup. The game at Cardiff Arms Park kicks off at 13:00 (UK & Irish time) and will be available to watch on BT Sport, Channel 4 and Virgin Media. Other key facts:

Cardiff and Toulouse first met in Europe in the 1995/96 European Cup final, a game won by the French side after extra time. Since then the sides have met seven times in the competition, with Cardiff winning three and losing four of those clashes.
Toulouse are the defending Heineken Champions Cup champions, having won the competition last season for a record-breaking fifth time. Cardiff remain the only Welsh team to have reached the final of the competition (losing to Toulouse in 1995/96).
Toulouse scrum-half Antoine Dupont was the joint top try-scorer in the Heineken Champions Cup last season, crossing the whitewash four times.
Toulouse won 27/27 scrums on their own feed in the Heineken Champions Cup last season, the most of any of the five sides to maintain a 100% success rate in this facet of the game.

https://twitter.com/Cardiff_Rugby/status/1468504145762021380 Key quotes: Julien Marchand (Stade Toulousain captain): “There’s a lot to look forward to, whether this be at home or away, or abroad. So, everyone is excited to embark on a new campaign and achieve something special again. We had a brilliant season [in 2020-21] and reaped the rewards at the end of it, so repeating it would be pretty good.” Josh Adams (Cardiff wing): "There's no pressure on us. I am sure everybody is expecting Toulouse to beat us, but within our inner circle we're quietly confident we can cause them problems."