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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 Second Division 4 Lower divisions

Premiership

• Bath Rugby
• Gloucester
• Leicester Tigers
• Leeds Tykes
• London Irish
• London Wasps
• NEC Harlequins
• Newcastle Falcons
• Northampton Saints
• Rotherham Titans (relegated to First Division for 2004/05)
• 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 (promoted to Zurich Premiership for 2004/05)

Second Division

• Bracknell
• Doncaster
• Esher
• Harrogate
• Lydney
• Moseley
• Newbury
• Nottingham
• Nuneaton
• Rosslyn Park
• Rugby Lions
• Sedgley Park
• Stourbridge
• Wharfedale

Lower divisions

• Blackheath (promoted to National Division 2 for 2004/5)