English Rugby Union Championship 1987/88

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The 1987/1988 season of the English Premiership was the first major league season of the English Rugby Union Championship. For sponsorship reasons it was named Courage League . As in the times before the league was founded, there was no fixed schedule and the clubs set the game dates among themselves. Most teams played eleven games, but some only ten. The first English championship title won the Leicester Tigers , while the Coventry RFC and the Sale Sharks had to relegate.

Courage League

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  • master
  • Relegation to National Division One
    • team Games Victories Unent. Ndlg. Game
    points     		Diff. Table
    points
    01. Leicester Tigers 10 9 0 1 225: 133 + 92 37
    02. London Wasps 11 8th 1 2 218: 136 + 82 37
    03. Harlequins 11 6th 1 4th 261: 128 + 133 30th
    04th Bath rugby 11 6th 1 4th 197: 156 + 41 30th
    05. Gloucester RFC 10 6th 1 3 206: 121 + 85 29
    06th Orrell RUFC 11 5 1 5 192: 153 + 39 27
    07th Moseley RFC 11 5 0 6th 167: 170 - 3 26th
    08th. Nottingham RFC 11 4th 1 6th 146: 170 - 24 24
    09. Bristol rugby 10 4th 1 5 171: 145 + 26 23
    10. Waterloo RFC 10 4th 0 6th 123: 208 - 185 22nd
    11. Coventry RFC 11 3 1 7th 139: 246 - 107 21st
    12. Sale Sharks 11 0 0 11 95: 374 - 279 11

    The points were distributed as follows:

    • 4 points if you win
    • 2 points if there is a tie
    • 1 point if you lose

    National Division One

    The season of the second division ( National Division One ) consisted of eleven game days, with each team playing once against the other. As there was no fixed schedule, as was customary before the league was founded, the clubs set the game dates among themselves. The top two teams, Rosslyn Park FC and Liverpool St Helens FC , advanced to the Premiership. There were no relegations this season.

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  • Promotion to the Premiership
    • team Games Victories Unent. Ndlg. Game
    points     		Diff. Table
    points
    01. Rosslyn Park FC 11 8th 2 1 155: 83 + 72 18th
    02. Liverpool St Helens FC 11 8th 1 2 154: 97 + 57 17th
    03. Saracens 11 7th 2 2 228: 86 + 142 16
    04th Headingley FC 11 6th 2 3 202: 164 + 38 14th
    05. Bedford Blues 11 6th 2 3 152: 139 + 13 14th
    06th Richmond FC 11 6th 0 5 140: 156 - 16 12
    07th London Scottish 11 4th 1 6th 141: 158 - 17th 9
    08th. London Irish 11 4th 1 6th 120: 177 - 57 9
    09. London Welsh 11 3 2 6th 153: 185 - 32 8th
    10. Gosforth RFC 10 2 1 7th 99: 129 - 30 5
    11. Blackheath FC 11 2 0 9 102: 187 - 85 4th
    12. Northampton Saints 11 1 0 9 81: 226 - 145 2

    The points were distributed as follows:

    • 2 points if you win
    • 1 point in case of a tie
    • 0 points if you lose

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