12 October 1996 Challenge Cup pool game: Newbridge 38 Glasgow 62

In the days when Scotland had four district sides, only three qualified for the Heineken Cup and Glasgow were the team to miss out in the first season of participation. That meant a place in the European Conference, as the Challenge Cup was then known, and five games in Pool A. This solid win was the first of them, with Derek Stark scoring four of his team’s ten tries. They lost their other four games, however, to Agen, Montferrand, Sale and Newport.

1 November 1997 Heineken Cup quarter-final play-off: Leicester Tigers 90 Glasgow 19

Second place behind Wasps in their pool took Glasgow through to the knockout stages in their first season in the Heineken. They should not have bothered. Still one of four Scottish teams, they were hopelessly outclassed by the Tigers, who had a half-back combination of Fijian wizard Waisale Serevi and South African World Cup winner Joel Stransky, and a host of other world-class internationals in their line-up.

12 December 1999 Heineken Cup pool game: Glasgow Caledonians 30 Leicester Tigers 17

Now just one of two Scottish ‘super districts’ along with Edinburgh Reivers, the merged Glasgow Caley side showed how much they had strengthened and improved over the previous two years with this win against opponents who had humiliated them last time they met. Andy Nicol and Shaun Longstaff got the tries, with Tommy Hayes adding 20 points with the boot.

16 January 2004 Challenge Cup round two, second leg: Glasgow 33 Saracens 5

A convincing win against the English team just fell short of the margin required to give Glasgow an aggregate victory - they had lost the away leg 37-6 five days earlier. Home-and-away wins over Montpellier in the first round had taken them through to the tie with Saracens.

1 April 2007 Challenge Cup quarter-final: Saracens 23 Glasgow Warriors 19

After drawing at home and losing away to Saracens in the pool, the Warriors were drawn against the same opponents in the quarter-final and just lost out at Vicarage Road. The highlight of the pool games was a 69-7 win at Hughenden over Parma, who unsurprisingly finished bottom.

7 December 2008 Heineken Cup pool game: Bath 35 Glasgow Warriors 31

A Thom Evans hat-trick was not enough to give Sean Lineen’s team a win at the Recreation Ground. The Warriors went on to win in Toulouse the following month, but they lost to Bath at Firhill, and finished third in a pool that also contained the Dragons.

16 January 2011 Heineken Cup pool game: Glasgow Warriors 20 Wasps 10

The highlight of a pool campaign in which the Warriors also beat the Dragons home and away was not enough to take them into contention for a quarter-final place. They had already lost to Wasps in High Wycombe, and were defeated by Toulouse home and away. Nonetheless, it was another indication that, on their day, a steadily improving team could be more than a match for anyone.

13 October 2013 Heineken Cup pool game: Toulon 51 Glasgow Warriors 28

DTH van der Merwe scored twice as the Warriors did enough to claim a bonus point, but Toulon, who were on their way to the second of three consecutive titles, were far too strong. Home-and-away wins over Exeter were encouraging signs, but were counterbalanced by two losses to Cardiff.

18 October 2014 Heineken Cup pool game: Glasgow Warriors 37 Bath 10

The first pool match of the campaign produced one of Glasgow’s greatest performances of recent years in a season that would end with them becoming PRO12 champions. Mark Bennett scored twice, there were also tries for Sean Maitland, Tommy Seymour and Niko Matawalu, and Duncan Weir added the other points. The Warriors also beat Montpellier home and away, but losing twice to Toulouse and in the return match against Bath dashed their hopes of progressing in the competition.

12 December 2015 Heineken Cup pool game: Glasgow Warriors 43 Scarlets 6

Taqele Naiyaravoro showed just how powerful a player he could be when in the right frame of mind as he ran in a hat-trick, albeit against understrength opposition. The Warriors won in Wales a week later, too, but by then had suffered a damaging defeat to Northampton. They did beat eventual runners-up Racing 92 in their last pool game, but only after another loss to the Saints had ended their hopes of reaching the last eight.