Английская Википедия:2019–20 RFU Championship

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The 2019–20 RFU Championship, known as the 2019–20 Greene King IPA Championship for sponsorship reasons, was the eleventh season of the RFU Championship, the professional second tier of rugby union in England. It featured eleven English teams and one from Jersey. The competition was sponsored by Greene King for the seventh successive season.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, the Rugby Football Union officially cancelled the season on 20 March 2020, after initially postponing all rugby in England including training from 17 March until 14 April 2020. As a result, Newcastle Falcons were declared champions for the season, and promoted to the Premiership on 2 April 2020 on the basis of a best playing record formula, having been undefeated and top of the table when the league was suspended, while Yorkshire Carnegie were relegated to National League 1 at the bottom.

Structure

The team that finished first was promoted to Premiership Rugby as their ground met the RFU Minimum Standards Criteria. The team that finished last was relegated to National League 1. Each club received £530,000 in funding from the RFU in the last year of a deal with the RFU.

Plans to expand Premiership Rugby from 12 to 13 teams for the 2019-20 season, which would have reprieved Newcastle Falcons from being relegated to the Championship, were blocked by the RFU. Plans to abolish promotion and relegation were under discussion prior to the season, and drew complaints and threats of legal action from the Cornish Pirates. There were also plans for the RFU Championship to have a delayed start until October due to the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

The season began on 20 September 2019 with the Championship Rugby Cup after which the first round of matches started on 11 October 2019 and the final round of matches were scheduled to be played on 9 May 2020.

Teams

Richmond were relegated to National League 1 after finishing bottom of the 2018-19 RFU Championship. They are replaced by Ampthill who were promoted from 2018-19 National League 1 in their fifth promotion in twelve years, playing in the Championship for the first time. London Irish were promoted back to Premiership Rugby at the first attempt. They are replaced in the RFU Championship by Newcastle Falcons who were relegated after finishing last in 2018-19 Premiership Rugby.

Club	Stadium	Capacity	Area	Previous season
Ampthill	Dillingham Park	3,000	Ampthill, Bedfordshire	Promoted from National League 1 (champions)
Bedford Blues	Goldington Road	5,000 (1,700 seats)Шаблон:Efn	Bedford, Bedfordshire	3rd
Cornish Pirates	Mennaye Field	4,000 (2,200 Seats)	Penzance, Cornwall	5th
Coventry	Butts Park Arena	4,000 (3,000 seats)	Coventry, West Midlands	8th
Doncaster Knights	Castle Park	5,000 (1,650 seats)	Doncaster, South Yorkshire	10th
Ealing Trailfinders	Trailfinders Sports Ground	4,000 (2,200 Seats)	West Ealing, London	Runners up
Hartpury College	ALPAS Arena	2,000	Hartpury, Gloucestershire	11th
Jersey Reds	Stade Santander International	4,000	Saint Peter, Jersey	4th
London Scottish	Athletic Ground, Richmond	4,500 (1,000 seats)	Richmond, London	9th
Newcastle Falcons	Kingston Park	10,200	Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear	Relegated from Premiership (12th)
Nottingham	Lady Bay Sports Ground	3,500	Nottingham, Nottinghamshire	7th
Yorkshire Carnegie	Headingley Carnegie Stadium	21,062	Leeds, West Yorkshire	6th

Tables

At the date the Championship was suspended, the Championship table read as follows:

On 4 April, the Rugby Football Union confirmed the final table for the season.

2019–20 RFU Championship Table: Final
Position	Club	Points (adjusted)
1	Newcastle Falcons	104.50 (C)
2	Ealing Trailfinders	83.42
3	Cornish Pirates	75.43
4	Coventry	65.80
5	Ampthill	58.34
6	Nottingham	50.88
7	Jersey Reds	49.04
8	Bedford Blues	46.36
9	London Scottish	42.43
10	Doncaster Knights	36.84*
11	Hartpury	35.29
12	Yorkshire Carnegie	2.75 (R)
Green background is the promotion place. Pink background is the relegation place. Updated: 4 April 2020 Doncaster deducted 5 points for use of an unregistered agent. Source: Шаблон:Cite web

Fixtures & Results

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Round 12

• Game postponed due to bad weather (storm). Game to be rescheduled to 22 February 2020.

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Round 12 (rescheduled game)

• Game rescheduled from 9 February 2020.

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Round 15

• Cancelled due to coronavirus outbreak.

• Cancelled due to coronavirus outbreak.

• Cancelled due to coronavirus outbreak.

Attendances

Club	Home Games	Total	Average	Highest	Lowest	% Capacity
Ampthill	8	6,564	821	1,208	467	27%
Bedford Blues	7	19,476	2,782	5,000	2,132	56%
Cornish Pirates	8	14,372	1,797	2,975	1,285	45%
Coventry	7	17,125	2,446	3,117	1,932	61%
Doncaster Knights	7	7,299	1,043	1,203	781	21%
Ealing Trailfinders	6	5,415	903	1,950	625	23%
Hartpury	8	7,658	957	1,473	578	48%
Jersey Reds	8	9,929	1,241	1,892	848	31%
London Scottish	7	6,024	861	1,136	622	19%
Newcastle Falcons	7	32,950	4,707	6,315	3,795	46%
Nottingham	6	6,739	1,123	2,092	850	32%
Yorkshire Carnegie	8	6,209	776	2,121	300	4%

Individual statistics

• Note that points scorers includes tries as well as conversions, penalties and drop goals. Appearance figures also include coming on as substitutes (unused substitutes not included).

Top points scorers

Rank	Player	Team	Points
1	Шаблон:Flagicon Louis Grimoldby	Ampthill	112
	Шаблон:Flagicon Rory Jennings	Coventry	112
	Шаблон:Flagicon Sam Olver	Doncaster Knights	112
2	Шаблон:Flagicon Javier Rojas Alvarez	Cornish Pirates	108
3	Шаблон:Flagicon Craig Willis	Ealing Trailfinders	82
4	Шаблон:Flagicon Josh Bragman	Hartpury College	77
5	Шаблон:Flagicon Steven Shingler	Ealing Trailfinders	70
6	Шаблон:Flagicon Shane O'Leary	Nottingham	65
7	Шаблон:Flagicon Brendan Cope	Jersey Reds	60

Top try scorers

Rank	Player	Team	Tries
1	Шаблон:Flagicon George McGuigan	Newcastle Falcons	10
	Шаблон:Flagicon Adam Radwan	Newcastle Falcons	10
2	Шаблон:Flagicon Callum Patterson	Cornish Pirates	9
	Шаблон:Flagicon Jack Spittle	Nottingham	9
3	Шаблон:Flagicon Antonio Harris	Jersey Reds	8
	Шаблон:Flagicon Ryan Hutler	Bedford Blues	8
	Шаблон:Flagicon David Williams	Nottingham	8
4	Шаблон:Flagicon Sam Baker	Ampthill	7
	Шаблон:Flagicon Matt Cornish	Ealing Trailfinders	7
	Шаблон:Flagicon Luke Frost	London Scottish	7
	Шаблон:Flagicon Reon Joseph	Ealing Trailfinders	7

Season records

Team

Largest home win — 52 points (2)

52 – 0 Cornish Pirates at home to Yorkshire Carnegie on 12 January 2020
55 – 3 Coventry at home to Yorkshire Carnegie on 15 February 2020

Largest away win — 53 points

66 – 13 Ealing Trailfinders away to Yorkshire Carnegie on 10 November 2019

Most points scored — 77 points

77 – 26 Ealing Trailfinders at home to Ampthill on 18 January 2020

Most tries in a match — 11 (2)

Ealing Trailfinders at home to Ampthill on 18 January 2020
London Scottish away to Yorkshire Carnegie on 1 March 2020

Most conversions in a match — 10

Ealing Trailfinders at home to Ampthill on 18 January 2020

Most penalties in a match — 5 (2)

Coventry away to Jersey Reds on 12 October 2019
Doncaster Knights at home to Bedford Blues on 2 November 2019

Most drop goals in a match — 0

Attendances

Highest — 6,315

Newcastle Falcons at home to Cornish Pirates on 16 February 2020

Lowest — 300

Yorkshire Carnegie at home to Ampthill on 22 February 2020

Highest average attendance — 4,707

Newcastle Falcons

Lowest average attendance — 776

Yorkshire Carnegie

Player

Most points in a match — 25

Шаблон:Flagicon Jack Spittle for Nottingham away to Yorkshire Carnegie on 31 January 2020

Most tries in a match — 5

Шаблон:Flagicon Jack Spittle for Nottingham away to Yorkshire Carnegie on 31 January 2020

Most conversions in a match — 8

Шаблон:Flagicon Harry Sheppard for London Scottish away to Yorkshire Carnegie on 1 March 2020

Most penalties in a match — 5 (2)

Шаблон:Flagicon Rory Jennings for Coventry away to Jersey Reds on 12 October 2019
Шаблон:Flagicon Sam Olver for Doncaster Knights at home to Bedford Blues on 2 November 2019

Most drop goals in a match — 0