Sport | Rugby Union |
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Instituted | 2011 |
Ceased | 2012 |
Number of teams | 5 |
Country | England |
Website | clubs.rfu.com |
Berks, Bucks and Oxon Division 5 was a short lived English rugby union league featuring teams from Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. As with all of the divisions in this area at this level, the entire league was made up of second, third and fourth teams of clubs whose first teams play at a higher level of the rugby union pyramid.
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Season | No of Teams | Champions | Runners–up | Relegated Teams | League Name | |||||||||
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2011-12 [1] | 5 | Reading IV [n 1] | Bracknell IV [n 2] | No relegation | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 5 [n 3] | |||||||||
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