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English RFU Championship

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Established
1987 (38 years old)

First Recorded Event
2014-09-05

Current Season
2024-2025

Sport
Rugby

Location
United Kingdom

Gender
Male

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Results
31 May	Ampthill	19 - 29	Doncaster
31 May	Cornish P	35 - 34	Nottingha
31 May	Hartpury	12 - 45	Ealing Tr
31 May	Coventry	50 - 31	London Sc
31 May	Caldy Rug	26 - 29	Bedford B
31 May	Chinnor R	82 - 34	Cambridge
24 May	Ealing Tr	55 - 38	Coventry
24 May	Bedford B	61 - 26	Chinnor R
24 May	London Sc	31 - 13	Caldy Rug
24 May	Ampthill	54 - 43	Cambridge

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.


Seasons

2024-2025		2023-2024		2022-2023		2021-2022

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.

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