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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


Sport
Rugby

Location
United Kingdom

Gender
Male

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		Results
31 May 26	Bedford BBedford Blues	14 - 27	WorcesterWorcester Warriors
23 May 26	Ealing TrEaling Trailfinders	29 - 34	WorcesterWorcester Warriors
22 May 26	Bedford BBedford Blues	58 - 24	Coventry Coventry R.F.C.
16 May 26	WorcesterWorcester Warriors	35 - 29	Chinnor RChinnor RFC
16 May 26	Coventry Coventry R.F.C.	28 - 25	Hartpury Hartpury University R.F.C.
16 May 26	Richmond Richmond F.C.	34 - 11	London ScLondon Scottish
09 May 26	London ScLondon Scottish	19 - 14	Caldy RugCaldy Rugby Football Club
09 May 26	Hartpury Hartpury University R.F.C.	30 - 21	Cornish PCornish Pirates
09 May 26	Ealing TrEaling Trailfinders	52 - 14	Bedford BBedford Blues
09 May 26	DoncasterDoncaster Knights	54 - 45	NottinghaNottingham R.F.C.

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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