Английская Википедия:2016–17 Dialog Rugby League season

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The 2016–17 Dialog Rugby League was the 66th season of the top flight of Sri Lankan domestic rugby union competition. The competition is sponsored and broadcast by Dialog TV.

The league consists of 8 clubs playing in a home-and-away double round robin. The standings at the end of the season determine the seedings for the 2017 edition of the Clifford Cup playoffs held in the spring.

The reigning champions of both last year's regular season and the 2016 Clifford Cup is Kandy SC, who claimed their 17th league title after finishing the 2015-2016 season undefeated, two games clear of runners up Havelock SC.

The 2016-17 season was the first season that the SLRFU introduced a Television Match Official (TMO) for selected domestic games.

Kandy SC began the season in dominant form defeating CH&FC 96 to nil in their opening game before losing to Air Force SC the following week in a close game 24 to 21. Before the mid season break at the end of the year Kandy SC lost a second game, this time to Navy SC 32-37. Havelock SC commenced the year with a six-game winning streak, which ended with a 30-39 loss to Kandy SC on 18 December 2016.

In the second half of the season both Kandy SC and Havelock SC continued their respective unbeaten runs, with the title race coming down to the second last game of the season. The resultant win by Kandy SC 26-11 virtually secured the club the title, as whilst both clubs have the same number of wins for the season Kandy SC have more bonus points due to the size of their winning margins over the season. In the final round of the season Kandy SC finished in the same manner as they started by comprehensively defeating CH&FC 59-3, thereby retaining their League title for the 3rd year in a row.

Teams

Division 'A' clubs
Colours	Club	Established	City	Stadium	Capacity*	Titles (Last)**
Файл:Parramatta Colours.svg	Air Force Sports Club	-	Ratmalana	Air Force Ground Ratmalana	-	-
Файл:Sydney Uni Colours.svg	Army Sports Club	1962	Panagoda	Sri Lanka Army Rugby Ground Panagoda	-	2 (1975)
Файл:NTT Domoco Red Hurricanes.png	Ceylonese Rugby & Football Club	1922	Colombo	Longdon Place	5,550	13 (2002)
Файл:Kobesteelers.png	Colombo Hockey and Football Club	1892	Colombo	Colombo Racecourse	40,000	10 (2000)
Файл:600px bisection Black HEX-FF0080.svg	Havelock Sports Club	1915	Havelock Town	Havelock Park	-	14 (2012)
Файл:Eastern Suburbs Colours horizontal.svg	Kandy Sports Club	1888	Kandy	Nittawela Rugby Stadium	25,000	17 (2016)
Файл:PanasonicWildKnights.png	Navy Sports Club	-	Welisara	Welisara Navy ground	-	1 (2014)
Файл:Auckland colours, Air NZ Cup.png	Police Sports Club	1926	Bambalapitiya	Police Park	-	9 (1991)

League table

Table standings updated through 12 February 2017

Season champions

Place	Club	Games				Points			Bonus points	Table points
		played	won	drawn	lost	for	against	diff
1	Kandy SC	14	12	0	2	633	257	+376	15	75
2	Havelock SC	14	12	0	2	470	210	+260	9	69
3	Navy SC	14	10	0	3	463	336	+127	7	57
4	CR & FC	14	6	0	7	454	338	+116	12	47
5	Air Force SC	14	6	0	7	333	411	−78	5	40
6	Army SC	14	5	0	8	359	383	−24	9	34
7	Police SC	14	3	0	10	289	389	-100	7	22
8	CH & FC	14	0	0	13	149	796	-647	2	2
Points are awarded to the teams as follows: Win - 5 points Draw - 2 points 4 or more tries - 1 point Loss within 7 points - 1 point Loss greater than 7 points - 0 points

Try and Points scorers

Leading Try Scorer
Player	Club	Tries
Шаблон:Sortname	Kandy SC	16
Шаблон:Sortname	Kandy SC	12
Шаблон:Sortname	Navy SC	11

Leading Points Scorer
Player	Club	Points
Шаблон:Sortname	Havelock SC	171
Шаблон:Sortname	Navy SC	154
Шаблон:Sortname	Kandy SC	118