English Rugby Union Championship 2009/10

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The 2009-10 season of the English Premiership was the 23rd season of the major division of the English Rugby Union Championship. For sponsorship reasons it was called the Guinness Premiership . It began on September 4, 2009, comprised 22 game days (one preliminary and second round) and lasted until May 8, 2010. The four best-placed teams then qualified for the semi-finals, the semi-final winners met on May 29, 2010 in the final Twickenham Stadium on top of each other. The champions were the Leicester Tigers for the ninth time and were able to defend their title from the previous year. The Worcester Warriors had to relegate.

Guinness Premiership

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  • Qualification for semi-finals and participation in the Heineken Cup
  • Participation in the Heineken Cup
  • Relegation to the RFU Championship

    • M: Last year's champion
    P: Promotion (promoted) from the RFU Championship

    team Games Victories Unent. Ndlg. Game
    points     		Diff. Bonus
    points     		Table
    points
    01. Leicester Tigers (M) 22nd 15th 1 6th 541: 325 + 216 11 73
    02. Northampton Saints 22nd 16 0 6th 472: 322 + 150 7th 71
    03. Saracens 22nd 15th 1 6th 480: 367 + 113 7th 69
    04th Bath rugby 22nd 12 2 8th 450: 366 + 84 9 61
    05. London Wasps 22nd 13 0 9 394: 399 - 5th 5 57
    06th London Irish 22nd 10 3 9 469: 384 + 85 6th 52
    07th Gloucester RFC 22nd 10 1 11 470: 457 + 13 6th 48
    08th. Harlequins 22nd 9 2 11 420: 484 - 64 6th 46
    09. Newcastle Falcons 22nd 6th 4th 12 319: 431 - 112 5 37
    10. Leeds Carnegie (P) 22nd 7th 1 14th 280: 454 - 174 6th 36
    11. Sale Sharks 22nd 6th 1 15th 333: 495 - 162 6th 32
    12. Worcester Warriors 22nd 3 4th 15th 312: 420 - 108 8th 28

    The points are distributed as follows:

    • 4 points if you win
    • 2 points if there is a tie
    • 0 points in the event of a loss (before possible bonus points)
    • 1 bonus point for four or more attempts , regardless of the final score
    • 1 bonus point for a loss of seven or less points

    Play-off

    Semifinals
    May 16, 2010
    1:00 p.m.     		Northampton Saints 19:21 Saracens Franklin's Gardens , Northampton
    Spectators: 13,541
    Umpire: Wayne Barnes
    Attempts: Tonga'uiha 40th n.erh.
    Mujati 56th AD
    Penalty kicks: Myler (3) 6th, 41st, 51st
    		 (8: 7)
    Report     		Attempts: Goode 15th received
    Wyles 47th received
    Brits 76th received
    increases: Jackson (3)
    May 16, 2010
    16:00     		Leicester Tigers 15: 6 Bath rugby Welford Road Stadium , Leicester
    Spectators: 21,575
    Referee: Chris White
    Penalty kicks: Flood (5) 22nd, 36th, 59th, 63rd, 72nd
    		 (6: 6)
    Report     		Penalty kicks: Barkley (2) 11., 20.
    final
    May 29, 2010
    5:30 pm     		Leicester Tigers 33: 27 Saracens Twickenham Stadium , London
    Spectators: 81,600
    Referee: Dave Pearson
    Attempts: Smith 13. Increase
    Youngs 27.
    Increase Hipkiss 76.
    Increase Increase: Flood (3)
    Penalty Kicks: Flood (4) 3., 19., 47., 57.
    		 (20:14)
    Report     		Attempts: Joubert (2) 17th increased, 49th
    increased increases: Jackson (1)
    Penalty kicks: Jackson (6) 2nd, 9th, 25th, 70th, 75th
    15th Geordan Murphy
    14th Scott Hamilton
    13 Matt Smith
    12 Anthony Allen
    11 Alesana Tuilagi
    10 Toby Flood
    09 Ben Youngs
    08th Jordan Crane
    07th Lewis Moody
    06th Tom Croft
    05 Geoff Parling
    04th Louis Deacon
    03 Martin Castrogiovanni
    02 George Chuter
    01 Marcos Ayerza
    Substitute:
    16 Joe Duffey
    17th Dan Cole
    18th Boris Stankovich
    19th Craig Newby
    20th Ben Woods
    21st James Grindal
    22nd Jeremy Staunton
    23 Daniel Hipkiss
    15th Alex Goode
    14th Michael Tagicakibau
    13 Adam Powell
    12 Brad Barritt
    11 Chris Wyles
    10 Glen Jackson
    09 Neil de Kock
    08th Ernst Joubert
    07th Andy Saull
    06th Jacques Burger
    05 Hugh Vyvyan
    04th Steve Borthwick
    03 Petrus du Plessis
    02 Schalk Brits
    01 Matias Aguero
    Substitute:
    16 Fabio Ongaro
    17th Rhys Gill
    18th Richard Skuse
    19th Mouritz Botha
    20th Justin Melck
    21st Justin Marshall
    22nd Derick Hougaard
    23 Kameli Ratuvou

    RFU Championship

    The season of the second division (since this season RFU Championship , previously National Division One) lasted from September 4, 2009 to February 20, 2009 and consisted of 22 game days (one first and one second round). The best eight teams met again in two groups and played in play-offs for a place in the first division. The four remaining teams played among themselves a relegated third division.

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  • Participation in the playoffs
  • Participation in the relegation round

    • P: Promotion (promoted) from the National Division One
    R: Relegation (relegated) from the Premiership

    team Games Victories Unent. Ndlg. Game
    points     		Diff. Bonus
    points     		Table
    points
    01. Bristol Rugby (R) 22nd 19th 0 3 630: 337 + 293 16 92
    02. Exeter Chiefs 22nd 19th 0 3 699: 360 + 339 12 88
    03. London Welsh 22nd 14th 1 7th 483: 376 + 107 9 62
    04th Bedford Blues 22nd 12 1 9 581: 436 + 145 9 59
    05. Nottingham RFC 22nd 12 0 10 539: 520 + 19 11 59
    06th Cornish Pirates 22nd 11 1 10 555: 463 + 92 9 56
    07th Doncaster RFC 22nd 10 0 12 394: 386 + 8 8th 48
    08th. Plymouth Albion 22nd 10 1 11 389: 462 - 73 6th 48
    09. Moseley RFC 22nd 10 0 12 444: 553 - 99 6th 46
    10. Rotherham RUFC 22nd 7th 0 15th 451: 520 - 69 15th 43
    11. Coventry RFC 22nd 5 1 16 346: 565 - 219 5 12
    12. Birmingham & Solihull RFC (P) 22nd 0 1 21st 293: 836 - 543 4th - 9
    1. ↑ Deduction of 5 points due to insolvency proceedings.
    2. ↑ Deduction of 15 points due to insolvency proceedings.
    3. ↑ Deduction of 15 points due to insolvency proceedings.

    The points are distributed as follows:

    • 4 points if you win
    • 2 points if there is a tie
    • 0 points in the event of a loss (before possible bonus points)
    • 1 bonus point for four or more attempts , regardless of the final score
    • 1 bonus point if you lose less than seven points

    Play-off

    Group A
    team Games Victories Unent. Ndlg. Game
    points     		Diff. Bonus
    points     		Table
    points
    1. Bristol rugby 6th 5 0 1 189: 86 + 103 4th 24
    2. Bedford Blues 6th 4th 0 2 154: 125 + 29 4th 20th
    3. Cornish Pirates 6th 2 0 4th 98: 158 - 60 2 10
    4th Plymouth Albion 6th 1 0 5 57: 129 - 72 1 5
    Group B
    team Games Victories Unent. Ndlg. Game
    points     		Diff. Bonus
    points     		Table
    points
    1. Exeter Chiefs 6th 4th 0 2 181: 86 + 95 4th 20th
    2. London Welsh 6th 4th 0 2 108: 110 - 2nd 2 18th
    3. Nottingham RFC 6th 2 0 4th 98: 141 - 43 2 10
    4th Doncaster RFC 6th 2 0 4th 108: 158 - 50 1 9
    Semifinals
    date encounter Result
    May 7, 2010 Bristol Rugby - London Welsh 28:15
    May 8, 2010 Exeter Chiefs - Bedford Blues 37: 8
    final
    date encounter Result
    May 19, 2010 Exeter Chiefs - Bristol Rugby 9: 6
    May 26, 2010 Bristol Rugby - Exeter Chiefs 10:29

    Exeter rose to the Premiership.

    Relegation round

    team Games Victories Unent. Ndlg. Game
    points     		Diff. Bonus
    points     		Table
    points
    1. Rotherham RUFC 6th 5 0 1 188: 116 + 72 7th 27
    2. Moseley RFC 6th 2 0 4th 153: 132 + 21 7th 15th
    3. Birmingham & Solihull RFC 6th 3 0 3 158: 169 - 11 3 13 1
    4th Coventry RFC 6th 2 0 4th 82: 164 - 82 2 10

    1 deduction of 2 points due to the use of an unregistered player.

    Coventry RFC was relegated to National Division One.

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