Bill Beaumont County Championship Division 2

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Bill Beaumont County Championship Division 2
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Rugby football current event.svg 2019 Bill Beaumont County Championship Division 2
Sport Rugby union
Founded2002;22 years ago (2002)
No. of teams8
Country England
Most recent
champion(s)		 Somerset (2022) (1st title)
Most titles Northumberland (4)
Related
competitions		 Bill Beaumont Division 1
Bill Beaumont Division 2

The Bill Beaumont County Championship Division 2 (formerly known as County Championship Plate) is an annual rugby union competition in England between teams representing English counties. It was formed in 2002 as the County Championship Shield (a competition which is now played by tier 3 sides) - changing to Plate by 2010 and then to Bill Beaumont Division 2 by 2017. [1] [2] Division 2 is contested for by second tier teams in the RFU County Championship. Each county draws its players from rugby union clubs from the third tier and below of the English rugby union league system (typically National League 1, National League 2 North or National League 2 South).

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Division 2 is split into two regional groups (north) and (south) with each team playing one or two home games and the top teams in each group meeting in the final to be held at Twickenham Stadium along with other county divisional finals. Since 2017 promotion and relegation occurs over two years as opposed to one, using a system of accumulative points from pool games to determine who goes up or down. Currently the top two sides in Division 2 over the two years (one from each regional group) go up to tier 1 while the bottom two sides (again one from each regional group) are relegated to tier 3.

Past winners

YearDateWinnersScoreRunner-upVenueAttendance/Notes
20022 June Warwickshire 34 - 12 Berkshire Twickenham Stadium, London [3]
200325 May Northumberland 27 - 8 Oxfordshire Twickenham Stadium, London [4]
200429 May North Midlands 58 - 5 Eastern Counties Twickenham Stadium, London [5] [6]
200529 May Hertfordshire 20 - 13 North Midlands Twickenham Stadium, London [7] [8]
200629 May Cheshire 32 - 17 Middlesex Twickenham Stadium, London [9] [10]
200727 May Warwickshire 22 - 8 Somerset Butts Park Arena, Coventry [11] [12]
200831 May Northumberland 25 – 11 Cornwall Twickenham Stadium, London 1,500 [13] [14]
200930 May Cheshire 30 - 22 Hertfordshire Twickenham Stadium, London [15]
2010 [n 1] 29 May Kent 33 - 27 Warwickshire Rectory Field, London [16] [17]
201128 May Northumberland 31 - 17 North Midlands Greensfield, Alnwick [18] [19]
2012No Final [n 2]
2013 26 May Northumberland 45 - 10 North Midlands Twickenham Stadium, London [20] [21]
2014 1 June Kent 31 - 23 Durham County Twickenham Stadium, London [22] [23]
2015 31 May Surrey 17 - 3 Eastern Counties Twickenham Stadium, London [24]
2016 29 May East Midlands 33 - 27 Kent Twickenham Stadium, London [25]
2017 [n 3] 28 May Leicestershire 39 - 7 Hampshire Twickenham Stadium, London
2018 27 May Durham County 46 - 12 Warwickshire Twickenham Stadium, London
2019 8 June Leicestershire 38 - 13 Surrey Twickenham Stadium, London
2020-2021No Competition due to COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom [26]
2022 4 June Somerset 36 - 20 Staffordshire Twickenham Stadium, London

Number of wins

Notes

  1. ↑ Changed name from County Championship Shield to County Championship Plate.
  2. ↑ This season there was no Plate final for the division two teams only promotion for the top sides in each group.
  3. ↑ Changed name from County Championship Plate to Bill Beaumont Division 2.

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References

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  26. ↑ "No Championship until 2022. "County Championship: Rugby Football Union cancels competition until 2022."". BBC.

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