Rugby Americas North Championship

Rugby Americas North Championship

Current season, competition or edition: 2017 Rugby Americas North Championship
Sport	Rugby union
Founded	2001
No. of teams	13
Continent	North America
Most recent champion(s)	Mexico (1st)
Most titles	Trinidad and Tobago (9)

The Rugby Americas North Championship, known before the 2016 edition as the NACRA Rugby Championship, is a championship for Tier 3 members of Rugby Americas North in men's 15-a-side rugby union.

The current format of the tournament has all the teams split between the north and south. North and south are then split into the Championship (higher division) and the Cup. The highest placed team in the cup plays the bottom team in the championship for promotion. The winner of the north championship plays the winner of the south championship in the final of the RAN Championship.^[1]

The scoring system is slightly different from regular rugby union tournaments, with a win worth 2 points instead of 4.

Mexico is the most recent champion, winning the 2016 tournament.

Champions

Champions by year:^[2]

Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Refs
1966	Guyana	round robin	Trinidad and Tobago
1967	Trinidad and Tobago	round robin
1969	Jamaica	round robin	Bahamas
1973	Trinidad and Tobago	round robin
1975	Jamaica	round robin	Barbados
1977	Bermuda	round robin
1979	Bermuda	round robin
1981	Bermuda	round robin
1983	Trinidad and Tobago	round robin
1985	Trinidad and Tobago	round robin
1996	Bermuda	29-8	Trinidad and Tobago
1997	Trinidad and Tobago	31-14	Cayman Islands
1998	Bermuda	round robin	Trinidad and Tobago
1999	Trinidad and Tobago  Cayman Islands	round robin
2001	Trinidad and Tobago	23–12	Bermuda	[3]
2005	Barbados	52–3	Bahamas	[4]
2008	Trinidad and Tobago	40–24	Guyana	[5]
2011	Bermuda	11–0	Guyana
2012	Bermuda	18–0	Guyana	[6]
2013	USA South	26–18	Trinidad and Tobago
2014	Guyana	30–27	USA South	[7]
2015	Trinidad and Tobago	30–16	Mexico	[8][9]
2016	Mexico	32-3	Guyana
2017	USA South	23-19	Guyana

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