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Among the 18 rounds of regular-season fixtures, stand-out games include Bristol playing West Country rivals Bath at the Principality Stadium<\/a> in Cardiff for the first time.<\/p>\n The match in round 16 on 10 May will see the Bears swap their Ashton Gate home for the 75,000-seater south Wales venue in a game branded as the ‘Big Day Out’, to “reach new audiences and grow [Bristol’s] commercial revenue”. <\/p>\n The fixture aims to replicate the success of Harlequins and Saracens in recent years of playing a showpiece game at a major ground.<\/p>\n Saracens will host their London rivals at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on 22 March, while Quins will face Gloucester on 10 May at Twickenham Stadium.<\/p>\n The new Premiership campaign had been described as a “relaunch of the league”<\/a> by chief executive Simon Massie-Taylor after three clubs went out of business two seasons ago.<\/p>\n There was again no promotion from, or relegation to, the Championship last season, although it could return for 2024-25<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Rugby Football Union Council has proposed plans for a two-legged play-off which, if approved, would see the bottom side in the Premiership and top side in the Championship meet.<\/p>\n The proviso is that the second-tier side must meet the Premiership’s minimum standards criteria, which it has not done in recent campaigns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n