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The 2024–25 RFU Championship is the sixteenth season of the RFU Championship, the professional second tier of rugby union in England. It features twelve English teams. Ealing Trailfinders are the reigning champions, having been refused promotion to the Premiership due to failing to meet minimum standards.
Updated to match(es) played on 21 December 2024. Source: Source: RFU Championship [1] Rules for classification: If teams are level at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order: Number of matches won; Difference between points for and against; Total number of points for; Aggregate number of points scored in matches between tied teams
The Championship is governed by the Rugby Football Union (RFU). [4] The current competition format is a double round-robin tournament, where teams play each other home and away. The 2022–23 season had no playoff phase, and no team was promoted to the Premiership as Jersey Reds did not meet the minimum standards criteria. [5]
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The first step was to reduce the Championship from 14 clubs to 13 at the end of the 2024 season. This was achieved by the bottom two clubs being relegated to League 1 but only the League 1 champions being promoted. The team finishing third-bottom in 2024 played the team winning the League 1 play-offs for the 13th spot in the 2025 Championship. [5]
Championship clubs had clear confirmation from the RFU on funding for the 2023/24 season and we have been working with the Championship and Premiership Rugby on the new Professional Game ...
Updated to match(es) played on 11 December 2024. Source: UEFA Rules for classification: League phase tiebreakers (W) Assured of at least the play-offs (seeded), but may still advance directly to the round of 16; (X) Assured of at least the play-offs (unseeded), but may still advance directly to the round of 16
The 2023–24 RFU Championship is the fifteen season of the RFU Championship, the professional second tier of rugby union in England. It features eleven English teams, with the 12th team, and reigning champions, Jersey Reds, withdrawing from the competition at the start of the season after going into liquidation. [1]