The Arms Park also hosted the inaugural Heineken Cup final of 1995-6 and the following year in 1996-7.

Other transnational competitions include the Pro 12, involving Irish, Italian, Scottish and Welsh teams ; The Rugby Championship, involving South African, Australian, New Zealand and Argentinian Teams ; and the Heineken Cup, involving the top European teams from their respective domestic competitions.

Following the introduction of professionalism trans-national club competitions were started, with the Heineken Cup in the Northern Hemisphere and Super Rugby in the Southern Hemisphere .< ref name =" historymain ">

Perpignan is a rugby stronghold: their rugby union side, USA Perpignan, is a regular competitor in the Heineken Cup and seven times champion of the Top 14 ( most recently in 2009 ), while their rugby league side plays in the Stobart Super League under the name Catalans Dragons.

* Biarritz Olympique, runners-up in the 2005-6 Heineken Cup.

The stadium was scheduled to witness a rugby union milestone on 19 December 2009, when the Parisian club Stade Français planned to take their Heineken Cup home match against Irish club Ulster to the stadium in a match that had sold more than 30, 000 tickets.

However, heavy snowfall in Brussels on the intended matchday forced the cancellation of what would have been the first Heineken Cup match held in Belgium ; the fixture was instead played the following day in Paris.

The stadium will have another shot at hosting a Heineken Cup match in 2012.

On 26 July 2012, English club Saracens announced that they will take their October 20 Heineken Cup pool match against Racing Métro 92 to Brussels.

The Welsh regional teams play in the Magners League, the Anglo-Welsh Cup ( LV Cup ), the European Heineken Cup and the European ( Amlin ) Challenge Cup.

* Heineken Cup final – London Wasps defeated Toulouse 27-20

* Heineken Cup – Leicester Tigers 34 – 30 Stade Français

* Heineken Cup – Leicester Tigers 15 – 9 Munster

* Aviva Premiership, Heineken Cup and EDF Energy Cup

* Heineken Cup – Toulouse defeats Perpignan 22 – 17

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By the time of his resignation as chairman of the board in 1989 he had transformed Heineken from a brand that was known chiefly in the Netherlands to a brand that is currently famous worldwide.

Since the 3. 5 % threshold is reasonably close to the alcohol content of an international lager beer, many international brands such as Heineken, Carlsberg and Pilsner Urquell are sold in two versions in Sweden-the internationally renowned product as a starköl at Systembolaget and a slightly watered-down version as a folköl in the grocery stores.

* December 16 – The Heineken Brewery is founded in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Newcastle Brown Ale ( colloquially " Newkie Brown " ( UK ), " Newcastle " ( US ) or " Dog " ( North East )) is an English beer owned by Heineken and produced at their John Smith's Brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire.

As an important industrial and business center, the city is also home to an array of Mexican companies, including Pemex, Lanix Electronics, CEMEX, Vitro, Zonda Telecom, Mercedes-Benz Mexico, OXXO, Mastretta, BMW de Mexico, Mabe, Grupo Bimbo, DINA S. A., Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery ( Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma ), formerly fully owned by FEMSA now jointly owned with Heineken and Grupo ALFA.

Ray, under the name Michel de Carvalho, later became a prominent British businessman and, through his wife, Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken, is the majority shareholder in the Heineken brewing company, worth over £ 8, 000, 000, 000 sterling as of 2002.

It is home to many national and international businesses such as Heineken, Epic Systems, Tyco International and many others.

The main brewery of Heineken International is located there.

The brewery is now owned by Heineken International, who have renamed it the Affligem brewery and market the beers internationally.

Although the company is no longer independent, the John Smith's Tadcaster Brewery site has been maintained, and it remains the location where the majority of John Smith's is still brewed, as well as brewing a range of Heineken UK products.

The Dutch beer, Heineken, is also produced in Costa Rica.

The Heineken Cup ( known as the H Cup in France due to restrictions on alcohol sponsorship ) is one of two annual rugby union competitions organised by European Rugby Cup involving leading club, regional and provincial teams from the six International Rugby Board ( IRB ) countries in Europe whose national teams compete in the Six Nations Championship: England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.

The Heineken Cup is one of the most prestigious trophies in the sport and has been sponsored by Dutch brewing company Heineken International since the tournament began in 1995.

Diagram showing how qualification is obtained for Heineken Cup and European Challenge Cup until 2009 – 10 season.

The building's four auditoriums were been completely rebuilt. Each is a different size and color: Rovina is blue and seats 930 people ; Meskin is lavender and seats 320 ; Bertonov ( also known as Bimartef ) is green and seats 220 ; and Habima 4 ( formerly known as Heineken ) is wood paneled and seats 170.

He is a winner of the Heineken Prize for History from the Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ( 1994 ), the Ausonius Prize for Ancient History from the University of Trier ( 1999 ) and the Premio Anaxilao from the Municipality of Reggio di Calabria ( 1999 ).

* 1990-Won the Schenectady open and reached the semi-finals of the 1990 Heineken Open.

The Italian Super 10 competition also sent clubs into the Heineken Cup through 2009 – 10, but no longer does so after the Celtic League expanded to include Italian franchises.

London Wasps could have benefited if either Clermont or Edinburgh had won the 2011 – 12 Heineken Cup, but both those clubs lost in the semi-finals, ending Wasps ' hopes of a Heineken Cup lifeline.

Toulouse is one of the finest rugby clubs in Europe, having won the Heineken Cup four times ( record ) – in 1996, 2003, 2005 and 2010.

The 1995 – 96 Heineken Cup was the first edition of the Heineken Cup, which was to become the annual rugby union European club competition for clubs from the top six nations in European rugby.

From then until 2003 Pontypridd consistently finished in the top five of the league but failed to challenge for top spot ( and to qualify for the Heineken Cup – Europe's top tournament ) as they struggled to cope with the added financial pressures of the newly professional game, losing a number of players to larger clubs and relying heavily upon their much admired youth academy system.

The Top 14 also serves as the qualification route for French clubs into the two European Rugby competitions: the Heineken Cup and the European Challenge Cup.

A minimum of six French clubs qualify for top level of competition, the Heineken Cup.

The top six ranked French clubs ( one through to six on the points ladder ) at the end of the regular season qualify for the following season's Heineken Cup.

* English clubs win both Cup competitions, or one of Scotland's two professional teams wins either Cup competition, and the club that stands highest in the ERC Rankings among those that did not otherwise qualify for the Heineken Cup is French.

All Top 14 clubs that do not qualify for the Heineken Cup automatically qualify for the Challenge Cup.

In addition to the French success in the Heineken Cup, the clubs in the lower European competitions have achieved similar results.

While domestically the season never really took off, the 2011 – 12 Heineken Cup campaign proved to be the most successful in the clubs history by topping Pool 2.

Both clubs would also be guaranteed places annually into the Heineken Cup, which had previously been awarded to the two top teams in the domestic Italian Super 10.

The highest pre-redevelopment official attendance in Thomond Park came in 1992 when a local derby in the All-Ireland League between clubs Shannon RFC and Garryowen FC saw 18, 000 people cram into the old ground. It has been alleged that unofficial attendances for Heineken Cup home games involving Munster have been higher than this.