[4] For the Championship itself, there is only one main league table (the conference system used in previous Pro14 years has been dropped).

[5] Danie Craven Stadium[7] 16,000 Location of South African teams: The Regional pools of the regular season are the primary mechanism by which teams qualify for European competition, with the winner of each regional pool guaranteed qualification for the European Rugby Champions Cup, ensuring at least one South African, one Welsh and one Irish side qualify for the premier European competition.

As such, it is possible that a team will qualify for the ERCC without reaching the URC play-offs by topping its pool, but finishing ninth or lower overall.

In practice, a team may qualify from an overall 9th or 10th position as the shield winner in a weak regional pool, but the emphasis on derby matches, and the points available in them, tend to ensure that the lowest placed shield winner cannot finish lower than tenth.

The lowest a team can finish overall while winning its URC shield and qualifying for the Champions Cup is thirteenth.

By losing their URC quarter-final, Sharks were therefore the eighth and final team eliminated from contention for a spot in the 2023-24 European Rugby Champions Cup.

Connacht also qualified for the European Rugby Champions Cup by league placing following the elimination of Sharks, the only remaining team that could deny them the final spot by winning the URC Championship.

Glasgow Warriors and Stormers as guaranteed fourth and third placed team, have home advantage for the quarter-finals only.

Leinster, Ulster, Glasgow, Stormers, Munster and the Bulls have qualified for the 2023–24 Champions Cup by virtue of their league position.

The play-off draw is seeded based on final positions in the regular season league table.

The all-time attendance record for the URC and Pro14/12 was set in the semi-final between the Stormers and Connacht in Cape Town, with 47,261 spectators.

The record lasted only three weeks as a sell-out crowd of 56,344 watched the 2022–23 final between Stormers and Munster[187][185] The 2022–23 United Rugby Championship Dream team is:[188] The 2022–23 URC award winners were:[189]