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Increasing the Premiership’s buying power will stop England’s top stars heading overseas after Rugby World Cup 2015, according to club bosses yesterday.
Premiership Rugby chief Mark McCafferty believes a second salary cap hike in as many years will help English clubs keep pace with big-spending French and Japanese counterparts.
The Premiership clubs will vote in a £500,000 salary cap rise for next season in a board meeting tomorrow.
The competition’s board will also allow each squad to have a second marquee player for 2015/16 — to be recruited from overseas and not have played in the Premiership for at least 12 months.
Premiership clubs can already nominate one marquee player in their squad, whose wages are excluded from the salary cap constraints.
“The number of England qualified players in Aviva Premiership rugby is at record levels and we want to push those numbers even higher,” said McCafferty.
