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The team that finishes last in the league is not automatically relegated |
The team that finishes last in the league is not automatically relegated. Relegation from (and promotion to) BUCS Super Rugby is decided through a playoff in the format of a three-team, single-elimination tournament. |
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The playoff begins with a Semi-final between the winners of the North A and South A leagues. The bottom placed BUCS Super Rugby team has a [[Bye (sports)|bye]] directly into the Final. The winner of the Final is the team that plays in the next season of BUCS Super Rugby. |
The playoff begins with a Semi-final between the winners of the North A and South A leagues. The bottom placed BUCS Super Rugby team has a [[Bye (sports)|bye]] directly into the Final. The winner of the Final is the team that plays in the next season of BUCS Super Rugby. |
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Revision as of 15:40, 7 November 2021
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Current season, competition or edition: 2021-22 | |
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| Sport | Rugby union |
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| First season | 2016-17 |
| Administrator | British Universities and Colleges Sport |
| No. of teams | 10 |
| Country | Great Britain |
| Most recent champion(s) | Durham (2019-20 League) Hartpury University BUCS (2018-19 Championship) |
| Most titles | Hartpury University BUCS - 3 Championships |
| Level on pyramid | 1 |
| Relegation to | North A or South A |
| Official website | www |
BUCS Super Rugby is the highest level of men's university rugby in Britain and a potential pathway for university players into elite rugby.[1] It comprises ten teams from universities in England and Wales. The league is named for its governing body, British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS).
History
BUCS Super Rugby was launched in 2016 as a new, top level of university rugby above the existing North A and South A leagues.
The eight teams in the inaugural 2016-17 season were those who finished in the top four of the North A and South A leagues in the preceding 2015-16 season.
The league expanded to nine teams in the 2017-18 season and ten teams in the 2018-19 season.
Current clubs
* Excludes the 2020-21 season, which was cancelled due to Covid-19. ** Not to be confused with Hartpury University R.F.C., who play in the RFU Championship.
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  Cardiff  Locations of BUCS Super Rugby teams Locations of BUCS Super Rugby teams in Cardiff
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Season structure
The season has two main phases:
- A double round-robin, where teams play each other home and away (known as the BUCS Super Rugby League).
- A knockout tournament featuring the top eight teams from the League (known as the BUCS Super Rugby Championship).
League
The league season currently has 18 rounds and typically runs from September to March. League points are awarded in the following way:
- 4 points for winning a match
- 2 points for drawing a match
- 0 points for losing a match
- 1 losing bonus point for losing by 7 points (or less)
- 1 try bonus point for scoring (at least) 4 tries, regardless of the outcome.
In this points system winning teams get 4 or 5 points, drawing teams 2 or 3 points, and losing teams between 0 and 2 points.
Championship
The championship has three rounds and typically takes place in late March and early April. It features the teams who finished in the top eight of the league. The Championship final takes place at Twickenham Stadium.
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BUCS Super Rugby playoff
The team that finishes last in the league is not automatically relegated. Relegation from (and promotion to) BUCS Super Rugby is decided through a playoff in the format of a three-team, single-elimination tournament.
The playoff begins with a Semi-final between the winners of the North A and South A leagues. The bottom placed BUCS Super Rugby team has a bye directly into the Final. The winner of the Final is the team that plays in the next season of BUCS Super Rugby.
| Semi-final | Final | ||||||||
| Bottom placed team in BUCS Super Rugby | |||||||||
| North A champions | Winner of Semi final | ||||||||
| South A champions | |||||||||
Results
League and Championship
| Final position | Season | |||
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| 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20* | |
| 1 | Hartpury (CH) | Exeter | Exeter (SF) | Durham |
| 2 | Exeter (RU) | Northumbria | Hartpury (CH) | Exeter |
| 3 | Loughborough (SF) | Cardiff Met (RU) | Bath (SF) | Leeds Beckett |
| 4 | Durham | Leeds Beckett (SF) | Cardiff Met | Cardiff Met |
| 5 | Bath (SF) | Hartpury (CH) | Leeds Beckett (RU) | Hartpury |
| 6 | Northumbria | Loughborough | Northumbria | Loughborough |
| 7 | Cardiff Met | Bath (SF) | Durham | Swansea |
| 8 | Leeds Beckett | Durham | Cardiff | Bath |
| 9 | - | Nottingham Trent | Loughborough | Cardiff |
| 10 | - | - | Nottingham Trent (R) | Northumbria |
Green background (rows 1 to 8) are teams that progressed to the Championship tournament.
Red background is a team that was relegated after losing a playoff to a North A / South A team.
(CH) Champions. (RU) Runners-up. (SF) Losing semi-finalists. (R) Relegated
* No Championship tournament was held in 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Promotion and relegation
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Alumni with international caps
Inclusion criteria: Played in a senior international test after playing in BUCS Super Rugby
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Place in the BUCS Rugby Union pyramid
BUCS Super Rugby is the top division of men's university rugby in Britain. It sits in the Premier tier of the BUCS Rugby Union pyramid, along with North A, North B, South A and South B.
| Premier | BUCS Super Rugby | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| North A | South 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| North B | South B | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tier 1 | Scottish 1A | Northern 1A | Midlands 1A | Western 1A | South Eastern 1A | ||||||||||||||||
| Tier 2 | Scottish 2A | Northern 2A | Northern 2B | Midlands 2A | Midlands 2B | Western 2A | Western 2B | South Eastern 2A | South Eastern 2B | ||||||||||||
| Tier 3 | Scottish 3A | Northern 3A | Northern 3B | Midlands 3A | Midlands 3B | Western 3A | Western 3B | South Eastern 3A | South Eastern 3B | ||||||||||||
| Tier 4 | Scottish 4A | Northern 4A | Northern 4B | Midlands 4A | Midlands 4B | Western 4A | Western 4B | South Eastern 4A | South Eastern 4C | South Eastern 4B | |||||||||||
| Tier 5 | Northern 5A | Northern 5B | Midlands 5A | Western 5A | South Eastern 5A | South Eastern 5B | |||||||||||||||
| Tier 6 | South Eastern 6A | ||||||||||||||||||||
Media coverage
Some BUCS Super Rugby matches are streamed live on the BUCS Sport YouTube channel and the England Rugby YouTube channel. In the 2018-19 season some matches were broadcast on FreeSports.
See also
References
- ^ England Rugby. Rugby Football Union https://www.englandrugby.com/participation/education/universities. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ https://www.talkingrugbyunion.co.uk/bucs-super-rugby-2020-21-season-cancelled/28841.htm.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/57790719
- ^ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/thibaud-flament-from-loughborough-university-fifths-to-debut-for-france-8d99lvfnj