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The English rugby union league pyramid is topped by the Premiership. Below this are the Championship and National Leagues 1 to 3. Below this are the Championship and National Leagues 1 to 3. Below this, the structure is split geographically into four regions: Midlands, North, London and South East, and South West.
This league also had 12 teams, and like the Premiership, is professional. Beneath the two professional leagues, the National Leagues were restructured to include a new 16 team National League 1, 16 team National League 2 South and 16 team National League 2 North. The four top regional leagues became part of National League 3 at level five.
Rugby union in England is one of the leading professional and recreational team sports. In 1871 the Rugby Football Union , the governing body for rugby union in England, was formed by 21 rugby clubs, and the first international match, which involved England , was played in Scotland.
This article shows a list of professional rugby league clubs in Britain. It includes every team playing in levels 1–4 of the British rugby league system . Competitions listed are correct as of the 2021 season.
Premiership Rugby, officially known as Gallagher Premiership Rugby, or the Gallagher Premiership for sponsorship reasons, [1] is an English professional rugby union competition, consisting of 10 clubs, and is the top division of the English rugby union system.
League 1 is the final tier of professional rugby league in the UK. It currently contains 10 teams and sees the league leader declared champion and promoted, and a playoff system for teams two to six to gain the final promotion spot.
United Rugby Championship — provincial/regional teams from Ireland, Italy, Scotland, South Africa and Wales. The competition began as the Celtic League, restricted to the three Celtic nations; became Pro12 when two Italian teams joined in 2010–11 and Pro14 when two South African teams joined in 2017–18.
7 of the 16 teams in the United Rugby Championship operate within the United Kingdom - 2 in Scotland, 4 in Wales, and 1 in Northern Ireland (although this team also represents three counties in Ireland. The remaining teams; 3 in Ireland, 2 in Italy and 4 in South Africa play away matches in the UK, but are based outside it.