R360 rugby firm told to file accounts or face closure

The company behind R360, rugby union's proposed breakaway league, has been ordered to file overdue accounts or face being dissolved.

AOTG Sport missed a July deadline to lodge accounts with Companies House, the UK's official register of companies, covering the period to the end of December 2025. It has now been served with a strike-off notice, which gives it two months to file the paperwork or be put out of business, BBC Sport.

AOTG said the delay was an error by its accountants. It said the issue would be resolved by early next week.

R360 was pitched as a five-month travelling circuit with eight men's teams and four women's teams. Former England centre Mike Tindall is its public face. The launch was first set for October 2026.

Organisers have since pushed the inaugural season back to 2028. The idea met strong resistance from the established game. Eight leading Test nations, the international sides, and the British and Irish Lions moved against it.

World Rugby, the sport's global governing body, refused to ratify the competition without a guarantee that players would be released for the Test window, the periods set aside each year for internationals. England, Ireland and Scotland went further and issued a blanket ban on selecting players who signed up to R360.

Organisers claimed to have contracts signed with close to 200 men's players. They floated some huge venues for matches, including MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, Barcelona's Nou Camp and Dublin's Croke Park, BBC Sport.

For fans, this means two separate fights are running at once. One is on the pitch, over who plays where and who gets picked for their country. The other is off it, over money, paperwork and whether a new league can survive a two-year wait.

The immediate clock is short. AOTG has two months to satisfy Companies House. Its own answer points to next week.