English Rugby Union teams

The Rugby Union league is divided up into five divisions - the Premiership, Divisions One and Two, and Divisions Three South and North. Teams who finish top of a division get promoted upwards and those who finish last get relegated.

The teams here are shown as they were at the start of the 2003/2004 season.

Table of contents

1 Premiership 2 First Division 3 Lower divisions

Premiership

• Bath Rugby
• Gloucester
• Leicester Tigers
• Leeds Tykes
• London Irish
• London Wasps
• NEC Harlequins
• Newcastle Falcons
• Northampton Saints
• Rotherham Titans
• Sale Sharks
• Saracens

First Division

• Bedford Blues
• Birmingham and Solihull ('Pertemps Bees')
• Bristol Shoguns
• Coventry
• Exeter Chiefs
• London Welsh
• Manchester
• Orrell Anvils
• Otley
• Plymouth Albion
• Wakefield
• Worcester Warriors

Lower divisions

• Rugby