English Rugby Union Championship 1987/88
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
- table
team | Games | Victories | Unent. | Ndlg. | Game points |
Diff. | Table points |
|
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1. | Leicester Tigers | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 225: 133 | + 92 | 37 |
2. | London Wasps | 11 | 8th | 1 | 2 | 218: 136 | + 82 | 37 |
3. | Harlequins | 11 | 6th | 1 | 4th | 261: 128 | + 133 | 30th |
4th | Bath rugby | 11 | 6th | 1 | 4th | 197: 156 | + 41 | 30th |
5. | Gloucester RFC | 10 | 6th | 1 | 3 | 206: 121 | + 85 | 29 |
6th | Orrell RUFC | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 192: 153 | + 39 | 27 |
7th | Moseley RFC | 11 | 5 | 0 | 6th | 167: 170 | - 3 | 26th |
8th. | Nottingham RFC | 11 | 4th | 1 | 6th | 146: 170 | - 24 | 24 |
9. | 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.
- table
team | Games | Victories | Unent. | Ndlg. | Game points |
Diff. | Table points |
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Rosslyn Park FC | 11 | 8th | 2 | 1 | 155: 83 | + 72 | 18th |
2. | Liverpool St Helens FC | 11 | 8th | 1 | 2 | 154: 97 | + 57 | 17th |
3. | Saracens | 11 | 7th | 2 | 2 | 228: 86 | + 142 | 16 |
4th | Headingley FC | 11 | 6th | 2 | 3 | 202: 164 | + 38 | 14th |
5. | Bedford Blues | 11 | 6th | 2 | 3 | 152: 139 | + 13 | 14th |
6th | Richmond FC | 11 | 6th | 0 | 5 | 140: 156 | - 16 | 12 |
7th | London Scottish | 11 | 4th | 1 | 6th | 141: 158 | - 17th | 9 |
8th. | London Irish | 11 | 4th | 1 | 6th | 120: 177 | - 57 | 9 |
9. | 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