2016–17 Dialog Rugby League season

2016–17 Dialog Rugby League
Countries  Sri Lanka
Date 4 November 2016 – 11 March 2017
Champions Kandy SC
Runners-up Havelock SC
Matches played 56
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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 20016-17 season was the first season that the SLRFU introduced a Television Match Official (TMO) for selected domestic games.[1]

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)**
 Air Force Sports Club - Ratmalana Air Force Ground Ratmalana - -
 Army Sports Club 1963 Diyagama Diyagama Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium - 2 (1975)
 Ceylonese Rugby & Football Club 1922 Colombo Longdon Place 5,550 13 (2002)
 Colombo Hockey and Football Club 1892 Colombo Colombo Racecourse 40,000 10 (2000)
 Havelock Sports Club 1915 Havelock Town Havelock Park - 14 (2012)
 Kandy Sports Club 1888 Kandy Nittawela Rugby Stadium 25,000 17 (2016)
 Navy Sports Club - Welisara Welisara Navy ground - 1 (2014)
 Police Sports Club 1926 Bambalapitiya Police Park - 9 (1991)

League Table

Table standings updated through 12 February 2017[2][3]

Season champions
Place Club Games Points Bonus
points		 Table
points
played won drawn lost for against diff
1Kandy SC141202633257+3761575
2Havelock SC141202470210+260969
3Navy SC141003463336+127757
4CR & FC14607454338+1161247
5Air Force SC14607333411−78540
6Army SC14508359383−24934
7Police SC143010289389-100722
8CH & FC140013149796-64722
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[4]
Player Club Tries
Ranjun, DanushkaDanushka Ranjun Kandy SC 16
Dharmapala, RichardRichard Dharmapala Kandy SC 12
Wijesinghe, DulanjanDulanjan Wijesinghe Navy SC 11
Leading Points Scorer[5]
Player Club Points
Perera, DulajDulaj Perera Havelock SC 171
Weerasinghe, ThilinaThilina Weerasinghe Navy SC 154
Wijesinghe, ThilinaThilina Wijesinghe Kandy SC 118

League Season

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

References

  1. ↑ Ramakrishnan, Karuppiah (28 October 2016). "Dialog Inter Club Rugby League 2016/2017: Police – Navy set for kick-off". Ceylon Today. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  2. ↑ Fixtures & Results - Dialog Rugby League 2016/17
  3. ↑ Dialog Rugby League 2016/2017 | TheFuture. Today
  4. ↑ http://www.thepapare.com/dialogrugby/stats/
  5. ↑ http://www.thepapare.com/dialogrugby/stats/
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