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English RFU Championship

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Established
1987 (38 years old)

First Recorded Event
2014-09-05

Current Season
2025-2026

Current Round
9

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Rugby

Location
United Kingdom

Gender
Male

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12 Dec	Cornish P	7:30pm	Bedford B
12 Dec	Nottingha	7:45pm	Ealing Tr
13 Dec	Caldy Rug	2:00pm	Coventry
13 Dec	Cambridge	2:00pm	Chinnor R
13 Dec	Doncaster	2:30pm	Ampthill
13 Dec	London Sc	3:00pm	Hartpury
13 Dec	Worcester	3:00pm	Richmond
19 Dec	Richmond	7:45pm	Doncaster
20 Dec	Ampthill	1:30pm	London Sc
20 Dec	Hartpury	2:30pm	Caldy Rug
Results
06 Dec	Bedford B	29 - 28	Cambridge
06 Dec	Ealing Tr	38 - 0	Caldy Rug
06 Dec	Coventry	61 - 10	London Sc
06 Dec	Worcester	40 - 24	Cornish P
06 Dec	Richmond	20 - 25	Ampthill
06 Dec	Hartpury	33 - 33	Doncaster
05 Dec	Chinnor R	6 - 11	Nottingha
29 Nov	London Sc	14 - 38	Ealing Tr
29 Nov	Doncaster	24 - 21	Coventry
29 Nov	Cornish P	28 - 19	Richmond

Description

The RFU Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Greene King IPA Championship between 2013–14 and 2019–20) is the second tier of the English rugby union league system and was founded in September 1987. The twelve-side league was known as National Division One and in 2009 changed from semi-professional clubs to fully professional. The 2020 champions were Newcastle Falcons, winning automatic promotion to Premiership Rugby.
Originally the league required an end-of-season round of two-legged play-offs in which the top eight, from 2012–13 until 2016–17 revised to top four, clubs at the end of the main phase of the season played each other.
On 10 November 2008 it was proposed by the Rugby Football Union that the second tier of the English rugby union system should be a fully professional twelve club Championship.

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Ampthill RUFC	Bedford Blues	Caldy Rugby Foo	Cambridge RUFC
Chinnor RFC	Cornish Pirates	Coventry R.F.C.	Doncaster Knigh
Ealing Trailfin	Hartpury Univer	London Scottish	Nottingham R.F.
Richmond F.C.	Worcester Warrior

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