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Premiership clubs qualify for Europe's two main club competitions, the European Rugby Champions Cup and the European Rugby Challenge Cup. The winner of the second division, the RFU Championship is promoted to the Premiership and until 2020, the team finishing at the bottom of the Premiership each season was relegated to the Championship.
This is a list of all the grand finals that were played to decide those premierships. Between 1912 and 1925, and again in 1937, the premiership was decided on a first-past-the-post basis, with a final only played if two teams finished with an equal amount of competition points. This happened in 1916, 1922, 1923 and 1924.
This is a list of captains and coaches of National Rugby League premiership winning teams, as well as its predecessors NSWRL, ARL and Super League. Ken Kearney has captained the most premierships with six, all at St. George, [1] while Arthur Halloway has coached the most premierships with eight, four at Eastern Suburbs and four at Balmain.
The Australian rugby league premiers are the winners of the top grade competition in Australian rugby league, which is currently the National Rugby League. From 1908 until 1995, when the ARL Premiership was formed, there were two premiers, one each from Sydney and Brisbane. This occurred again in 1997 during the Super League war.
This is a list of the top points scorers and top try scorers in each season of Premiership Rugby, England's top division of rugby union.Formed in 1997 as an independent top division the awards form part of Premiership Rugby's end of season awards show.
The 2022–23 Premiership Rugby was the 36th season of the top flight of English domestic rugby union competition and the fifth to be sponsored by Gallagher. [1] The competition was broadcast by BT Sport for the tenth successive season, [2] with six league season games and the final also simulcast free-to-air by ITV. [3]
The Premiership continued to be played until 1995–96, and the switch to a summer sport, when the competition was abandoned to allow the 1996 Super League season to begin in the spring. [ 3 ] A top-four play-off leading to a final, the Super League Premiership, was instituted as part of the Super League competition.
In 1984, the New South Wales Rugby Football League changed its name to New South Wales Rugby League. In 1988, for the very first time, two Queensland teams joined the competition, with the inclusions of the Brisbane Broncos and the Gold Coast-Tweed Giants. This saw the premiership competition move beyond the outer borders of New South Wales.