Scottish Premiership Division Two

Last updated
Scottish Premiership Division Two
Sport Rugby union
Founded 1973
No. of teams 12
CountryFlag of Scotland.svg  Scotland
Most recent
champion(s)
Stirling County RFC

Scottish Premiership Division Two is one of Scotland's national rugby union league divisions, and therefore part of the Scottish League Championship – being the middle division in the Scottish Premiership. Until the 2009–10 season, the best teams were promoted to the Scottish Premiership Division One whereas the bottom teams were relegated to the Third Division. Since the 2010–11 season, the division merges with the Scottish Premiership Division One. After 11 matches, the top eight teams in Division One play each other in Premier A. The bottom four teams join the top four teams of Division Two to form Premier B and the bottom eight teams of Division Two form Premier C.

Scotland country in Northwest Europe, part of the United Kingdom

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain, with a border with England to the southeast, and is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast, the Irish Sea to the south, and more than 790 islands, including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides.

Rugby union team sport, code of rugby football

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world simply as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is between two teams of 15 players using an oval-shaped ball on a rectangular field with H-shaped goalposts on each try line.

The Scottish League Championship is the domestic rugby union league system within Scotland. Operated by the Scottish Rugby Union, the championship was founded in 1973 as the first formalised national league system within any home nations country. The new six division championship replaced the haphazard "unofficial championship" system that had been in operation until that time. The top division is the Scottish Premiership.

Contents

Division Two, 2011–12

Biggar RFC is a rugby union club based in Biggar, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Founded in 1975, the team plays its home games at Hartree Mill and currently competes in Scottish National League Division Two, the third tier of Scottish club rugby.

Falkirk Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based in Falkirk, Scotland. They currently compete in Scottish National League Division One, the second tier of Scottish club rugby. The club play their home matches at Cala Park.

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Past winners

  1. Kelso
  2. Langholm
  3. Selkirk
  4. Melrose
  5. Kelso
  6. Melrose
  7. Gordonians RFC
  8. Selkirk
  9. Kilmarnock RFC
  10. Ayr
  11. Glasgow Academicals
  12. Kilmarnock RFC
  13. Glasgow Academicals
  14. Kilmarnock RFC
  15. Jed-Forest
  16. Stirling County
  17. Edinburgh Wanderers
  18. Watsonians
  19. Kelso
  20. West Of Scotland
  21. Glasgow High Kelvinside
  22. Kelso
  23. Currie
  24. Edinburgh Academicals
  25. Glasgow Hawks
  26. Gala
  27. Boroughmuir
  28. Stirling County
  29. Peebles
  30. Watsonians
  31. Gala
  32. Stirling County
  33. Dundee HSFP
  34. Stirling County
  35. West Of Scotland
  36. Dundee HSFP
  37. Stirling County
  38. ?
  39. ?
  40. ?
  41. Glasgow Hawks
  42. Boroughmuir
  43. Selkirk

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