Scottish Premiership Division One

Scottish Premiership Division One
Sport	Rugby union
Founded	1973
No. of teams	10
Country	Scotland
Most recent; champion(s)	Melrose RFC

The Scottish Premiership is the highest level club division in Scotland's national rugby union league divisions, and therefore part of the Scottish League Championship.

It contains many of the country's highest profile clubs. However it is not the highest level of rugby union in Scotland, as Edinburgh Rugby and Glasgow Warriors play against Irish, Welsh and Italian teams in the Pro14.

Some matches are shown live on BBC Alba.

Until the 2009–10 season, the bottom two teams were relegated to the Second Division. Over the subsequent two seasons, and as part of a two-phased reconstruction announced by the Scottish Rugby Council, the league moved from a 12-team league linear structure into a 10-team league pyramid structure. From the start of the 2012–13 season promotion/relegation between the Premiership and the newly formed National League (formerly the Second Division) is determined as follows: the winner of the National League is automatically promoted replacing the bottom placed team from the Premiership with a play-off between the 9th placed Premiership team and the 2nd placed National League team to determine the second promotion place.

The underlying principles behind league reconstruction as set out by the Season Structure Working Party of the Scottish Rugby Council were (a) to shorten the season, (b) to reduce travel costs, (c) to reduce time involved for all, (d) to assist in growing the game and (e) to retain players in the game.^[1]

The current teams playing in the Premier League are:

Premier League, 2015–16^[2]

Past winners

References

^ http://files.pitchero.com/clubs/3379/SeasonStructureWorkingPartyReport.pdf ^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Scottish Club & Community Rugby Website - Results". Archived from the original on 2012-02-24. Retrieved 2011-08-07.

[1] ttp://files.pitchero.com/clubs/3379/SeasonStructureWorkingPartyReport.pdf ^{[permanent dead link]}

[2] "Scottish Club & Community Rugby Website - Results". Archived from the original on 2012-02-24. Retrieved 2011-08-07.

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v t e Scottish League Championship
Tennent's Premiership	Currie Chieftains Edinburgh Academical Glasgow Hawks Hawick Heriot's Jed-Forest Kelso Marr Musselburgh Selkirk
Tennent's National League 1	Ayr Biggar Dundee Gala Glasgow Academicals GHA GHK Highland Melrose Watsonian
Tennent's National League 2	Aberdeen Grammar Berwick Falkirk Gordonians Kirkcaldy Lasswade Newton Stewart Peebles Stewart's Melville FP Stirling County
Tennent's National League 3	Allan Glen's Boroughmuir Cartha Queens Park Dumfries Saints Hamilton Hillhead Jordanhill Howe of Fife Orkney Preston Lodge West of Scotland
Tennent's National League 4	Dunfermline Garnock Greenock Wanderers Murrayfield Wanderers North Berwick Perthshire Ross High Stewartry Strathmore RFC Whitecraigs
Former teams	Ardrossan Academicals Dundee HSFP Royal High
Seasons	2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2022–23 2023–24

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Premier League, 2015–16[2]

Past winners

See also

References

Premier League, 2015–16^[2]