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English RFU Championship

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Established
1987 (39 years old)

First Recorded Event
2014-09-05

Current Season
2025-2026

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Sport
Rugby

Location
United Kingdom

Gender
Male

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Results
23 May	Ealing TEaling Trailfinders	-	WorcesteWorcester Warriors
22 May	Bedford Bedford Blues	58 - 24	CoventryCoventry R.F.C.
16 May	WorcesteWorcester Warriors	35 - 29	Chinnor Chinnor RFC
16 May	CoventryCoventry R.F.C.	28 - 25	HartpuryHartpury University R.F.C.
16 May	RichmondRichmond F.C.	34 - 11	London SLondon Scottish
09 May	London SLondon Scottish	19 - 14	Caldy RuCaldy Rugby Football Club
09 May	HartpuryHartpury University R.F.C.	30 - 21	Cornish Cornish Pirates
09 May	Ealing TEaling Trailfinders	52 - 14	Bedford Bedford Blues
09 May	DoncasteDoncaster Knights	54 - 45	NottinghNottingham R.F.C.
09 May	CoventryCoventry R.F.C.	64 - 28	WorcesteWorcester Warriors

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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Teams

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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