Lancashire (North)

Lancashire (North)
Current season or competition::
2016–17 Lancashire (North)
Sport Rugby union
Number of teams 12
Country  England
Holders Tarleton (2nd title) (2016–17)
(promoted to North Lancashire/Cumbria)
Most titles De La Salle (Salford) (5 titles)
Website England RFU

Lancashire (North), formerly known as North Lancashire 1 is a regional (tier 8) English Rugby Union league for teams from the South Lancashire and Manchester area. The league champions are typically promoted to North Lancashire/Cumbria while the runners up have a playoff against the runners up from the Cumbria League for the final promotion spot.

The current version known as Lancashire (North) was set up for the 2015-16 season when the RFU decided to break up the South Lancs/Cheshire league into 3 different zones also included Merseyside (West) and Cheshire (South). The format was not a success and South Lancs/Cheshire was resurrected for the 2016-17 with only Lancashire (North) remaining albeit with 12 teams instead of 14. When it was known as Lancashire Division 1 teams were relegated to North Lancashire 2 but at present it is the basement league in Lancashire and there is no relegation.

Participating Clubs 2016-17

Participating Clubs 2015-16

Colne & Nelson
Garstang
Hutton
Ormskirk
Pendle
Tarleton
Thornton-Cleveleys
Locations of the 2015-16 Lancashire (North) teams in Lancashire
Bury
Didsbury Toc H
Littleborough
Trafford MV
Locations of the 2015-16 Lancashire (North) teams in Greater Manchester
Team Ground Capacity City/Area Previous season
Burnley Holden Road Reedley Hallows, Burnley, Lancashire Transferred from North Lancashire 1 (8th)
Bury Bury Sports Club Bury, Greater Manchester Transferred from North Lancashire 2 (3rd)
Colne & Nelson Holt House Colne, Lancashire Transferred from North Lancashire 2 (6th)
Didsbury Toc H Ford Lane Didsbury, Manchester Transferred from North Lancashire 1 (4th)
Garstang Hudson Park Garstang, Lancashire Transferred from North Lancashire 1 (6th)
Hutton Saunders' Lane Hutton, Lancashire Transferred from North Lancashire 2 (4th)
Littleborough Rakewood Road Littleborough, Greater Manchester Transferred from North Lancashire 1 (3rd)
North Manchester Tudor Lodge Moston, Manchester Transferred from North Lancashire 1 (10th)
Ormskirk Green Lane Ormskirk, Lancashire Transferred from South Lancs/Cheshire 2 (7th)
Orrell St John Rigby College Orrell, Wigan, Greater Manchester Transferred from South Lancs/Cheshire 2 (6th)
Pendle Swinden Playing Fields Nelson, Lancashire Transferred from North Lancashire 2 (1st)
Tarleton Carr Lane Tarleton, Lancashire Transferred from North Lancashire/Cumbria (13th)
Thornton-Cleveleys Thornton Sports Centre Thornton, Lancashire Transferred from North Lancashire 1 (7th)
Trafford MV MacPherson Park Trafford, Greater Manchester Transferred from North Lancashire 1 (5th)

Participating Clubs 2014-15

Participating Clubs 2013-14

Participating Clubs 2012-13

Lancashire (North) Honours

Lancashire (North) Honours
Season No of Teams Champions Runners–up Relegated Teams League Name
1998-99[1] 10 De La Salle (Salford) Bury Chorley North Lancs 1
1999-00[2] 10 Bolton Eccles Thornton Cleveleys, Colne & Nelson North Lancs 1
2000-01[3] 12 De La Salle (Salford) Tyldesley Broughton, Ashton-Under-Lyne North Lancs 1
2001-02[4] 12 Fleetwood Bury Burnley North Lancs 1
2002-03[5] 12 Trafford MV Didsbury Toc H Fylde Saracens (Fylde 2nds), Old Bedians, Thornton Cleveleys North Lancs 1
2003-04[6] 12 De La Salle (Salford) Didsbury Toc H West Park Warriors, Chorley North Lancs 1
2004-05[7] 12 Heaton Moor Burnage Ashton-Under-Lyne, Blackpool North Lancs 1
2005-06[8] 11 Aldwinians Didsbury Toc H Thornton Cleveleys North Lancs 1
2006-07[9] 12 Kirkby Lonsdale Tarleton Colne & Nelson, Bury North Lancs 1
2007-08[10] 12 Heaton Moor Burnley Blackpool, Windermere, Garstang North Lancs 1
2008-09[11] 12 Furness Eccles No relegation[a 1] North Lancs 1
2009-10[12] 14 De La Salle (Salford) Didsbury Toc H Old Bedians, Windermere North Lancashire Division 1
2010-11[13] 14 Aldwinians Trafford MV Newton-le-Willows, Ashton-Under-Lyne North Lancashire Division 1
2011-12[14] 14 Littleborough Trafford MV Birchfield, Windermere North Lancashire Division 1
2012-13[15] 14 Tarleton Bolton Bury, North Manchester North Lancashire Division 1
2013-14[16] 14 De La Salle (Salford) Heaton Moor Hutton, Mossley Hill North Lancashire Division 1
2014-15[17] 11 Oldham Ashton-Under-Lyne St Edward's Old Boys, North Manchester North Lancashire Division 1
2015-16[18] 14 Trafford MV Littleborough No relegation Lancashire (North)
2016-17[19] 11 Tarleton Burnley No relegation Lancashire (North)
2017-18 11
Green backgrounds are promotion places.
  1. ↑ No relegation as division due to increase from 12 to 14 teams for the following season.

Promotion play-offs

Since the 2000–01 season there has been a play-off between the runners-up of the Cumbria League and Lancashire (North) for the third and final promotion place to North Lancashire/Cumbria. The team with the superior league record has home advantage in the tie. At the end of the 2016–17 season the Lancashire (North) teams have been the most successful with eleven wins to the Cumbria League teams four; and the home team has won promotion on twelve occasions compared to the away teams three.

Cumbria League v Lancashire (North) promotion play-off results
Season Home team Score Away team Venue Attendance
2000–01[20] Tyldesley (L) 47-26 Hawcoat Park (C)[b 1] St George's Park, Tyldesley, Manchester
2001–02[22] Bury (L) 20-3 Windermere (C) Bury Sports Club, Bury, Greater Manchester
2002–03[23] Didsbury Toc H (L) 17-29 Upper Eden (C)[b 2] Ford Lane, Didsbury, Manchester
2003–04[25] Egremont (C)[b 3] 27-19 Didsbury Toc H (L) Bleach Green, Egremont, Cumbria
2004–05[27] Burnage (L) 60-0 Moresby (C) Varley Park, Stockport, Greater Manchester
2005–06[28] Kirkby Lonsdale (C) 20-23 Didsbury Toc H (L) Raygarth, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria
2006–07[29] Tarleton (L) 28-7 Keswick (C) Carr Lane, Tarleton, Lancashire
2007–08[30] Netherhall (C) 0-20 Burnley (L) Netherhall Road, Maryport, Cumbria
2008–09[31] No promotion playoff[b 4]
2009–10[32] Didsbury Toc H (L) 42-10 Millom (C)[b 5] Ford Lane, Didsbury, Manchester
2010–11[33] Egremont (C) 19-18 Trafford MV (L) Bleach Green, Egremont, Cumbria
2011–12[34] Whitehaven (C) 33-22 Trafford MV (L) The Playground, Whitehaven, Cumbria
2012–13[35] Bolton (L) 27-7 Silloth (C) Avenue Street, Bolton, Greater Manchester
2013–14[36] No promotion playoff[b 6]
2014–15[37] Ashton-under-Lyne (L) 17-5 Workington (C) Gambrel Bank, Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester
2015–16[38] Littleborough (L) 37-3 Egremont (C) Rakewood Road, Littleborough, Rochdale, Greater Manchester
2016–17[39] Burnley (L) 94-0 Whitehaven (C) Holden Road, Burnley, Lancashire
2017–18
Green background is the promoted team. C = Cumbria League and L = Lancashire (North) (formerly North Lancashire 1)
  1. ↑ Despite finishing at the top of the 2000-01 Cumbrian League according to the RFU website, Hawcoat Park actually went into the playoff rather than runners up St Benedicts. Reasons for this are not clear, although St Benedicts did play one less game than Hawcoat Park and were level on points but with a weaker for/against record, so maybe an average points total was used to determine the champions.[21]
  2. ↑ Despite finished third in the 2002-03 Cumbrian League, Upper Eden went into the promotion playoff as champions Netherall were not promoted, with second placed Windermere going up instead.[24]
  3. ↑ Despite winning the 2003-04 Cumbrian League, Egremont had to take part in the promotion playoff usually reserved for league runners up.[26]
  4. ↑ Due to changes to English rugby union league system by the RFU there would be no promotion playoff at the end of 2008-09 season. Instead the champions and runners up from both leagues would be automatically promoted.
  5. ↑ Despite finishing the 2009-10 Cumbrian League in third place, [Millom RUFC
  6. ↑ Due to restructuring of the north-west leagues by the RFU there would be no promotion playoff at the end of 2013-14 season. Instead the champions and runners up from both leagues would be automatically promoted.

See also

References

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  2. ↑ "1999–00 Northern Division". England Rugby. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  3. ↑ "2000–01 Northern Division". England Rugby. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  4. ↑ "2001–02 Northern Division". England Rugby. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  5. ↑ "2002–03 Northern Division". England Rugby. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  6. ↑ "2003–04 Northern Division". England Rugby. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  7. ↑ "2004–05 Northern Division". England Rugby. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
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  9. ↑ "2006–07 Northern Division". England Rugby. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  10. ↑ "2007–08 Northern Division". England Rugby. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  11. ↑ "2008–09 Northern Division". England Rugby. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  12. ↑ "2009–10 Northern Division". England Rugby. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  13. ↑ "2010–11 Northern Division". England Rugby. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  14. ↑ "2011–12 Northern Division". England Rugby. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  15. ↑ "2012–13 Northern Division". England Rugby. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  16. ↑ "2013–14 Northern Division". England Rugby. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  17. ↑ "2014–15 Northern Division". England Rugby. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  18. ↑ "2016-17 Northern Division". England Rugby. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  19. ↑ "2016-17 Northern Division". England Rugby. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  20. ↑ "2000-01 North Playoffs". England Rugby. 2 June 2001.
  21. ↑ "2000-01 Northern Division". England Rugby. RFU. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  22. ↑ "2001-02 North Playoffs". England Rugby. 18 May 2002.
  23. ↑ "2002-03 North Playoffs". England Rugby. 26 April 2003.
  24. ↑ "2002-03 Northern Division". England Rugby. RFU. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  25. ↑ "2003-04 North Playoffs". England Rugby. 24 April 2004.
  26. ↑ "2003-04 Northern Division". England Rugby. RFU. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  27. ↑ "2004-05 North Playoffs". England Rugby. 28 May 2005.
  28. ↑ "2005-06 North Playoffs". England Rugby. 6 May 2006.
  29. ↑ "2006-07 North Playoffs". England Rugby. 28 April 2007.
  30. ↑ "2007-08 North Playoffs". England Rugby. 26 April 2008.
  31. ↑ "2008-09 North Playoffs". England Rugby. 25 April 2009.
  32. ↑ "2009-10 North Playoffs". England Rugby. 8 May 2010.
  33. ↑ "Play-off promotion victory for Egremont". News & Star. 3 May 2011.
  34. ↑ "2011-12 North Playoffs". England Rugby. 28 April 2012.
  35. ↑ "2012-13 North Playoffs". England Rugby. 27 April 2013.
  36. ↑ "2013-14 North Playoffs". England Rugby. 26 April 2014.
  37. ↑ "2014-15 North Playoffs". England Rugby. 25 April 2015.
  38. ↑ "2015-16 North Playoffs". England Rugby. 7 May 2016.
  39. ↑ "2016-17 North Playoffs". England Rugby. 29 April 2017.
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