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2009–10 RFU Championship

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Countries
  
England

Runners-up
  
Bristol

Country
  
England

Attendance
  
402,209

Champions
  
Exeter Chiefs

Champion
  
Exeter Chiefs

Relegated
  
Coventry R.F.C.

2009–10 RFU Championship

Highest attendance
  
11,550 Bristol at home to Exeter Chiefs on 26 May 2010

Lowest attendance
  
200 Birmingham & Solihull at home to Doncaster Knights on 17 February 2010

Top point scorer
  
Gareth Steenson(Exeter Chiefs) 280 points

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The 2009–10 RFU Championship was the 1st season (of the professionalised format) of the second division of the English domestic rugby union competitions, played between August 2009 and May 2010. The league had been restructured from the 16 teams of the previous season down to just 12. New teams included Bristol who had been relegated from the Guinness Premiership 2008-09 and Birmingham and Solihull who had been promoted from National Division Two 2008-09. As well as a decrease in teams, the league would now consist of three parts - a standard league section, promotion/relegation pools and then playoffs to determine who would go up as champions.

Contents

During this season, Exeter Chiefs won promotion to the Aviva Premiership 2010-11 by beating Bristol in the playoff final. Despite finishing 11th of 12 after the first stage Coventry were relegated to the 2010–11 National League 1 as they finished bottom of the relegation pool.

Participating teams

Notes

Round 14

  • Postponed. Game rescheduled to 2 February 2010.

    • Round 15

  • Postponed. Game rescheduled to 20 January 2010.
  • Postponed. Game rescheduled to 20 January 2010.

    • Round 16

  • Postponed. Game rescheduled to 10 February 2010.
  • Postponed. Game rescheduled to 11 February 2010.

    • Round 17

  • Postponed. Game rescheduled to 24 February 2010.

    • Round 15 (Rescheduled Games)

  • Game rescheduled from 28 December 2009.
  • Game rescheduled from 28 December 2009.

    • Round 19

  • Postponed. Game rescheduled to 17 February 2010.

    • Round 14 (Rescheduled Game)

  • Game rescheduled to 19 December 2009.

    • Round 16 & 19 (Rescheduled Games)

  • Game rescheduled from 2 January 2010.
  • Game rescheduled from 2 January 2010.
  • Game rescheduled from 30 January 2010.

    • Round 17 (Rescheduled Game)

  • Game rescheduled from 15 January 2010.

    • Promotion

    Winner of Pool A to play Runner-Up of Pool B, and Winner of Pool B to play Runner-Up of Pool A.

    Group A:

    Round 6

    Group B:

    Relegation

    Bottom club in Group C relegated to National League 1

    Group C:

  • Birmingham & Solihull deducted 2 points for fielding an unregistered player

    • Coventry are relegated to National League 1.

    Round 4

  • Postponed. Game rescheduled to 24 April 2010.

    • Semi-finals

    The semi-finals were one-off single ties held between the winner of Group A and the runner-up of Group B, and the winner of Group B and the runner-up of Group A. The matches took place at the home ground of the group winners.

    Final

    The two-legged final took place at the home grounds of the two clubs involved, rather than at Twickenham.

    Exeter Chiefs win the Championship and earn promotion to the 2010–11 Premiership.

    Total Season Attendances

  • Figures include playoff semi finals and final

    • Individual Statistics

  • Note that if players are tied on tries or points the player with the lowest number of appearances will come first. Player stats include playoff games as well as regular season games. Also note that points scorers includes tries as well as conversions, penalties and drop goals.

    • References

    2009–10 RFU Championship Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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