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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.
The 2024–25 Premiership Rugby is the 38th season of the top flight of English domestic rugby union competition. The season began on 20 September 2024 and will finish on 14 June 2025. [2] The reigning champions entering the season are Northampton Saints, who claimed their second league title after winning the 2024 final.
The 2024–25 Premiership Rugby Cup is the 52nd season of England's national rugby union cup competition and the second under the new Premiership Rugby Cup format, including clubs from both the Premiership and Championship. [1] Gloucester are the reigning champions. [2]
The 2025 mid-year rugby union internationals (also known as the summer internationals in the Northern Hemisphere, and winter internationals in the Southern Hemisphere) are international rugby union matches that will be mostly played in the Southern Hemisphere during the July international window. 2025 will see the British & Irish Lions touring Australia.
The RFU Championship is an English rugby union competition comprising eleven clubs. It is the second level of men's English rugby and is played by both professional and semi-professional players. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The competition has existed since 1987, when English clubs were first organised into leagues.
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]
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]
The 2023–24 Premiership Rugby Cup is the 51st season of England's national rugby union cup competition and the first under the new Premiership Rugby Cup format including clubs from both the Premiership and Championship. [1] Exeter Chiefs are the reigning champions. [2]