Leicester Tigers look set to make their first ever appearance at Wembley three weeks into next season.
Details of a fixture between home club Saracens and Leicester are already being advertised on ticket-selling website www.eticketing.co.uk – a service used by many top Premier League football clubs.
The site has ticket details, a date of Saturday, September 15 and a start time of 2.15pm.
It also bills the entertainment for the day as being from "chart-topping sensation, Cover Drive" – a four-piece band from Barbados. Adult tickets range from £16 to £65 with concessions for juniors.
It reads: "On Saturday September 15, Saracens will take to the Wembley stage once more.
"This fixture will welcome Leicester Tigers to Wembley for their first appearance against Saracens at their second home."
Despite this detail, Premiership Rugby (PRL), the Aviva Premiership's governing body, say that no apparent plans will be made concrete until the 2012-13 fixture list is released on Wednesday July 4.
A spokesman for PRL said: "The fixture list has not been confirmed yet and they will be released on July 4, as planned."
It is understood that Saracens have requested an away fixture for that third round of competition though and, if Tigers are confirmed as their opponents, it will provide a first visit to the iconic national football stadium.
Saracens used Wembley for home games on two occasions last season.
They beat the Ospreys 31-26 in the Heineken Cup in a game that attracted 41,036 supporters.
They lost to Harlequins 24-19 in March at the same venue but attracted 83,761 for the all-London clash – a world record for a club rugby game.
Saracens will play their home games next season in Barnet at the renovated 10,000-seater Copthall Stadium.
Tigers did not wish to pass comment.
Source: www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk
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