{"id":67458,"date":"2026-02-26T17:56:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/birmingham-citys-owners-explore-moving-into-rugby-union-and-buying-prem-franchise\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T17:56:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:56:52","slug":"birmingham-citys-owners-explore-moving-into-rugby-union-and-buying-prem-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/birmingham-citys-owners-explore-moving-into-rugby-union-and-buying-prem-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City\u2019s owners explore moving into rugby union and buying Prem franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>RFU due to confirm shake-up of rugby\u2019s top division<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Knighthead Capital Management in early discussions<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Birmingham City\u2019s owner, Knighthead Capital Management, is among a number of American investors exploring the purchase of potential new franchises in Prem Rugby before a radical shake-up of the sport due to be ratified by the Rugby Football Union on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The RFU Council will vote at Twickenham on proposals to ringfence the 10-team Prem with no promotion or relegation until 2030, when a staged expansion is planned, beginning with the addition of two more teams.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/26\/birmingham-city-owners-explore-rugby-union-buying-prem-franchise\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RFU due to confirm shake-up of rugby\u2019s top division Knighthead Capital Management in early discussions Birmingham City\u2019s owner, Knighthead Capital Management, is among a number of American investors exploring the purchase of potential new franchises in Prem Rugby before a radical shake-up of the sport due to be ratified by the Rugby Football Union on &#8230; <a title=\"Birmingham City\u2019s owners explore moving into rugby union and buying Prem franchise\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/birmingham-citys-owners-explore-moving-into-rugby-union-and-buying-prem-franchise\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Birmingham City\u2019s owners explore moving into rugby union and buying Prem franchise\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}