English rugby union championship 1999/2000
The 1999/2000 season of the English Premiership was the 13th major league season of the English Rugby Union Championship. For sponsorship reasons it was named Allied Dunbar Premiership . It began on September 10, 1999, comprised 22 game days (each a preliminary and second round) and lasted until May 21, 2000. The league title won the fourth time the Leicester Tigers , while the Bedford Blues had to relegate.
Allied Dunbar Premiership
- table
M: Last year's champion
P: Promotion (promoted) from National Division One
team | Games | Victories | Unent. | Ndlg. | Game points |
Diff. | Table points |
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Leicester Tigers (M) | 22nd | 18th | 1 | 3 | 687: 425 | + 262 | 51 |
2. | Bath rugby | 22nd | 15th | 2 | 5 | 690: 425 | + 265 | 43 |
3. | Gloucester RFC | 22nd | 15th | 0 | 7th | 628: 490 | + 138 | 40 |
4th | Saracens | 22nd | 14th | 0 | 8th | 729: 514 | + 215 | 37 |
5. | Northampton Saints | 22nd | 13 | 0 | 9 | 551: 480 | + 71 | 35 |
6th | Bristol rugby | 22nd | 12 | 1 | 9 | 632: 602 | + 30 | 34 |
7th | London Wasps | 22nd | 11 | 1 | 10 | 640: 461 | + 179 | 32 |
8th. | London Irish | 22nd | 9 | 1 | 12 | 613: 616 | - 3 | 25th |
9. | Newcastle Falcons | 22nd | 6th | 2 | 14th | 377: 630 | - 253 | 20th |
10. | Harlequins | 22nd | 7th | 0 | 15th | 441: 687 | - 246 | 18th |
11. | Sale Sharks | 22nd | 7th | 0 | 15th | 381: 633 | - 252 | 18th |
12. | Bedford Blues (P) | 22nd | 1 | 0 | 21st | 396: 802 | - 406 | 3 |
The points were distributed as follows:
- 3 points if you win
- 1 point in case of a tie
- 0 points if you lose
National Division One
The season of the second division ( National Division One ) consisted of 26 game days (one first and one second round). The top-ranked team Rotherham RUFC rose after a play-off against the Bedford Blues in the Premiership, while the Rugby Lions and the West Hartlepool RFC had to relegate.
- table
P: Promotion (promoted) from National Division Two
R: Relegation (relegated) from the Premiership
team | Games | Victories | Unent. | Ndlg. | Game points |
Diff. | Table points |
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Rotherham RUFC | 26th | 24 | 0 | 2 | 1045: 267 | + 778 | 48 |
2. | Leeds Tykes | 26th | 22nd | 0 | 4th | 794: 269 | + 525 | 44 |
3. | Worcester Warriors | 26th | 19th | 0 | 7th | 865: 450 | + 415 | 38 |
4th | Exeter Chiefs | 26th | 19th | 0 | 7th | 742: 466 | + 276 | 38 |
5. | London Welsh | 26th | 16 | 0 | 10 | 713: 476 | + 237 | 32 |
6th | Coventry RFC | 26th | 15th | 0 | 11 | 714: 589 | + 125 | 30th |
7th | Moseley RFC | 26th | 14th | 0 | 12 | 595: 526 | + 69 | 28 |
8th. | Manchester RC (P) | 26th | 11 | 0 | 15th | 513: 672 | - 159 | 22nd |
9. | Henley RFC (P) | 26th | 10 | 1 | 15th | 599: 696 | - 97 | 21st |
10. | Wakefield RFC | 26th | 10 | 0 | 16 | 547: 638 | - 91 | 20th |
11. | Orrell RUFC | 26th | 7th | 0 | 19th | 388: 682 | - 294 | 14th |
12. | Waterloo RFC | 26th | 6th | 2 | 18th | 441: 830 | - 389 | 14th |
13. | Rugby Lions | 26th | 6th | 1 | 19th | 408: 905 | - 497 | 13 |
14th | West Hartlepool RFC (R) | 26th | 1 | 0 | 25th | 216: 1114 | - 898 | 2 |
The points were distributed as follows:
- 2 points if you win
- 1 point in case of a tie
- 0 points if you lose