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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

Current Round
22

Sport
Rugby

Location
United Kingdom

Gender
Male

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10 Apr	Doncaster	6:30pm	Richmond
10 Apr	Nottingha	6:45pm	Coventry
11 Apr	Cornish P	1:30pm	Chinnor R
11 Apr	London Sc	2:00pm	Ampthill
11 Apr	Worcester	2:00pm	Bedford B
11 Apr	Cambridge	2:00pm	Ealing Tr
11 Apr	Caldy Rug	2:00pm	Hartpury
17 Apr	Coventry	7:00pm	Cambridge
18 Apr	Doncaster	1:30pm	London Sc
18 Apr	Hartpury	1:30pm	Nottingha
Results
04 Apr	Ampthill	61 - 17	Doncaster
04 Apr	Richmond	29 - 41	Worcester
04 Apr	Ealing Tr	47 - 21	Nottingha
04 Apr	Coventry	69 - 12	Caldy Rug
04 Apr	Bedford B	36 - 12	Cornish P
04 Apr	Hartpury	45 - 7	London Sc
03 Apr	Chinnor R	42 - 12	Cambridge
29 Mar	Nottingha	19 - 26	Chinnor R
28 Mar	Caldy Rug	19 - 21	Ealing Tr
28 Mar	London Sc	29 - 54	Coventry

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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