combining 2 regexs in 1 pattern..

I have little problem..
I just want to combine two regular expressions into 1 regex pattern
okay here is the code snippets:

my 1st regex:

preg_match_all('/(<span class=\"competition\">(.*?)<\/span>)/',$result,$out))

Code (markup):

2nd regex:

if(preg_match_all('/<a\s+.*?href=[\"\']?([^\"\' >]*)[\"\']?[^>]*>(Play)<\/a>/i',$result,$out))

Code (markup):

then I combined them into 1 pattern:

if(preg_match_all('/(<span class=\"competition\">(.*?)<\/span>).*?(<a\s+.*?href=[\"\']?([^\"\' >]*)[\"\']?[^>]*>(Play)<\/a>)/i',$result,$out))

Code (markup):

when I run it I get an empty array..
but when I run the both sepertly I get the result..
so Is there any way that I can combine both regex?

 

so guyz can I use <a href> regex with <span> tag regex??
I used <span> with other <span> and with other <td> and everything worx great..
the problem is with <a href> tag..

so any ideas?