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Scottish Premiership Division One

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Scottish Premiership Division One
SportRugby union
Founded1973
No. of teams10
Country Scotland
Most recent
champion(s)		Melrose RFC

The Scottish Premiership is the highest level club division in Scotland's national rugby union league divisions, and therefore part of the Scottish League Championship.

It contains many of the country's highest profile clubs. However it is not the highest level of rugby union in Scotland, as Edinburgh Rugby and Glasgow Warriors play against Irish, Welsh and Italian teams in the Pro14.

Some matches are shown live on BBC Alba.

Until the 2009–10 season, the bottom two teams were relegated to the Second Division. Over the subsequent two seasons, and as part of a two-phased reconstruction announced by the Scottish Rugby Council, the league moved from a 12-team league linear structure into a 10-team league pyramid structure. From the start of the 2012–13 season promotion/relegation between the Premiership and the newly formed National League (formerly the Second Division) is determined as follows: the winner of the National League is automatically promoted replacing the bottom placed team from the Premiership with a play-off between the 9th placed Premiership team and the 2nd placed National League team to determine the second promotion place.

The underlying principles behind league reconstruction as set out by the Season Structure Working Party of the Scottish Rugby Council were (a) to shorten the season, (b) to reduce travel costs, (c) to reduce time involved for all, (d) to assist in growing the game and (e) to retain players in the game.[1]

The current teams playing in the Premier League are:

Premier League, 2015–16[2]

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Past winners

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  2. Hawick
  3. Hawick
  4. Hawick
  5. Hawick
  6. Hawick
  7. Hawick
  8. Heriot's FP
  9. Gala
  10. Gala
  11. Hawick
  12. Gala
  13. Hawick
  14. Hawick
  15. Hawick
  16. Hawick
  17. Kelso
  18. Kelso
  19. Melrose
  20. Boroughmuir
  21. Melrose
  22. Melrose
  23. Melrose
  24. Stirling County
  25. Melrose
  26. Melrose
  27. Watsonians
  28. Heriot's FP
  29. Heriot's FP
  30. Hawick
  31. Hawick
  32. Boroughmuir
  33. Glasgow Hawks
  34. Glasgow Hawks
  35. Glasgow Hawks
  36. Currie RFC
  37. Boroughmuir
  38. Ayr RFC
  39. Currie RFC
  40. Melrose RFC
  41. Melrose RFC
  42. Ayr RFC
  43. Melrose RFC
  44. Heriot's FP

See also

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References

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  1. ^ http://files.pitchero.com/clubs/3379/SeasonStructureWorkingPartyReport.pdf [permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ "Scottish Club & Community Rugby Website - Results". Archived from the original on 2012-02-24. Retrieved 2011-08-07.
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