To border League

The Border League is a competition of Rugby to XV opened with the clubs located in the province of the Borders at the south of the Scotland. It is one of the oldest competitions of Rugby of the world, having been launched in 1901. For a long time, the very preserving Scottish federation, the Scottish Rugby Union, considered this competition as sacrilege because it carried in it the germs of the evil, because it designated a winner and was likely to develop a competitive spirit canted which would be pretext with all excesses to gain like, which know? , the arrival of the money. Nothing of all that occurred and League became a formidable ground of expression for generations of players, in particular for the fronts, whose rough play is the trademark of the area, which made then the beautiful days of the team of Scotland - reason why, undoubtedly, the SRU really did not seek to be opposed to it.

Format and participants

Until 2000-01, the teams clashed in match return ticket and a classification was established. Since 2001, the clubs are divided into two hens and face their adversaries only once, that is to say four matches. The winners of each hen clash for the title finally.

To border League is held the championship of Scotland parallel to and includes/understands teams of the Première to the Fifth Division. Six clubs are the pillars of this championship: Official reception, Hawick, Jed-Forest, Kelso, Melrose and Selkirk. With the passing of years, certain clubs were admitted there, others were excluded from it. Most recent are Duns RFC and Berwick. Berwick RFC, invited in 2001, is however an English club, but it takes part in this Scottish competition as well as the football club of the Berwick Rangers, located on the English territory, but much nearer to Scotland, evolves/moves in the Scottish championship. The town of Berwick is besides geographically more in north of all those taking part Border League, except for Duns.

Clubs 2006-07

Ten teams currently clash distributed in two hens.

Prize list (to be supplemented)

See too

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