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21-754: The division was established in its current format in 2014, with the creation of three national leagues below the Premiership. For the 2023–24 season, the division was reduced from 12 to 10 teams. The winners are promoted to the Scottish Premiership , with the runners-up entering a play-off at a neutral venue against the 9th-placed team in the Premiership. The bottom two teams are relegated to Scottish National League Division Two . Promoted from 2022–23 National League Division 2 Relegated from 2022–23 Scottish Premiership The Super 6 clubs were also allowed to run 2XV sides in this league for

42-489: A 26-24 victory away to Hawick in May 2024. Winning their third premiership title as a result. Each of the 10 clubs play each other at home and away between August and January, resulting in 18 games played by each club. Four points are awarded for a win, two for a draw and zero for a loss. Bonus points are also on offer in each game – one for scoring four or more tries and the other for the losing club finishing within seven points of

63-459: A national league before England, Wales or Ireland. Heriot's FP became the first city club to win the championship, they had already attracted "outsiders"; their leading try-scorer was Bill Gammell , a Fettesian already capped for the Scotland national rugby union team while playing for Edinburgh Wanderers . League rugby drew the crowds, and the 20 years that followed its introduction were

84-704: A new club to instead solely concentrate on rugby: the Hawick Football Club, moving to new premises at the Volunteer Park, just beyond the cricket pitch. New colours were adopted, dark green jerseys and stockings with white shorts, and in 1886 Hawick was admitted to membership of the Scottish Football (later Rugby) Union , only the 19th club to be admitted, the only earlier Border clubs being Gala and Melrose RFC . In 1888 Hawick Football Club moved to its present home, Mansfield Park , at

105-524: A title each during that time period. Although the Super 6 was above the Premiership in the national hierarchy and its clubs were selected directly from the existing members, from 2021 until the final season, its format was a 'closed shop' with no movement of teams between the Super 6 and the Premiership. The 50th anniversary season of the competition was won by the Currie Chieftains, who recorded

126-560: Is an semi-pro rugby union side, currently playing in the Scottish Premiership and Border League . The club was founded in 1885 and are based at Mansfield Park at Hawick in the Scottish Borders . The premier club of Hawick was Hawick and Wilton RFC . This was formed by the Hawick and Wilton Cricket Club members as a sport to play in the winter. It ran the Hawick and Wilton Sevens; the fourth oldest rugby sevens tournament in

147-489: Is relegated to Scottish National League Division One and replaced by the winners of National League Division One. The 9th-placed club takes part in a play-off match at a neutral venue with the 2nd-placed club in National League Division One. Relegated to National 1 Promoted from National 1 Hawick RFC Assistant Coaches: Scott MacLeod , Allan Jacobsen Hawick Rugby Football Club

168-474: The Scottish Rugby Union organised the full member clubs into six leagues. This suited some of the 'open' clubs but many of the older former pupils clubs found it difficult to compete successfully and were forced into going 'open' themselves to try to recruit some of the better players. Those that didn't declined. Open clubs kept their old FP or Academical name, and still played on grounds owned by

189-658: The Tennents Premiership for sponsorship reasons) is the highest level of amateur league competition for Scottish rugby union clubs. First held in 1973, it is the top division of the Scottish League Championship . The most recent (2024) champions are the Currie Chieftains , who are also the youngest club to win the competition. The most successful club is Hawick , who have won the competition thirteen times. Ten clubs contest

210-443: The 1950s, all 15 of Hawick RFC were approached by rugby league scouts from Yorkshire. In this period, Hugh McLeod , George Stevenson , Adam Robson , and Derrick Grant alone won 100 international caps between them, while fifteen other Greens played for their country. The official Scottish championship began in season 1973–74 and since that time Hawick has won the championship on twelve occasions. The proud record of winning

231-446: The 2019–20 season (not shown on map). Winners of the second tier competition – includes National League Division Two (1973–1995), Premiership Division Two (1996–2012), National League (2013–2014) and National League Division One (2015–present) National League Division Two Premiership Division Two National League National League Division 1 Scottish Premiership (rugby) The Scottish Premiership (referred to as

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252-502: The best in the history of Scottish club rugby. In that period the title of champions rarely went out of the Borders : with Hawick , Gala and Melrose enjoying long periods of ascendancy. Recently, however, the Borders domination has faded and Glasgow Hawks won the title three times in successive years between 2003 and 2004 and 2005–06. Since the advent of the leagues, the Scottish Rugby Union and its member clubs have re-organised

273-590: The competition several times, usually to change the number of teams. The top Scottish clubs qualified to the British and Irish Cup from 2009 to 2014. From season 2019–20 a semi-professional championship in Scotland, known as the Super 6 , was introduced – its teams no longer took part in the Premiership competition, however this was changed when the Super 6 was discontinued after the 2023/24 season. The Super 6 format

294-544: The first Border League in 1901–02 and the first Scottish championship in 1973–74 was added to in 1995–96 when the club were also first winners of the Scottish Cup. Indeed, in season 2002–03, the Greens completed the treble, winning Scottish League championship, Scottish Cup and Border League championship. In 2009, the club was relegated to the second tier for the first time in their history. Hawick regained their place in

315-578: The league, with the bottom club relegated to the Scottish National League Division One and second-bottom club involved in a play-off. The top level of club rugby in Scotland are the two professional teams – Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh Rugby – that play in the United Rugby Championship . They assign their players to the clubs below in a Pro-Draft; so that they can still play when not used by

336-505: The other end of the town. The early seasons brought keenly contested games against Edinburgh Academicals , Gala , and Watsonians , and in 1896 Hawick won their first Scottish Unofficial Championship . Between 1945 and 1972, Hawick club firmly established among the leaders of Scottish rugby, winning the unofficial championship eight times, taking the Border League title fifteen times, and earning fame as sevens specialists. In

357-538: The professional sides. Up to season 1972–73, Scotland's rugby union clubs participated in what was known as the Scottish Unofficial Championship . It provided very unbalanced competition: some clubs played more fixtures than others and some fixture lists provided stiffer opposition than others. The resulting league table at the end of each season gave a very unbalanced and difficult-to-comprehend set of results. Starting in season 1973–74,

378-627: The schools. In the first 14 seasons of league rugby the Division I championship was won by Hawick on ten occasions. One consequence was soon apparent: fewer players were selected from English clubs to represent Scotland. For the first time since before the First World War , the domestic game was producing an adequate number of players of genuine international class. Though the SRU's administrators were often seen as backward looking, Scotland had

399-399: The winning club. From season 2014–15 an end of season play-off was introduced for the top four clubs in the table. These clubs take part in a knock-out competition, with first playing third and second playing fourth in a semi-final match at the home venue of the highest finishing clubs. The winners then face each other in the final to determine the Premiership champion. The 10th-placed club

420-542: The world (behind Melrose [1883]; Gala [April 1884] and Selkirk Cricket Club [May 1884]). For the members of Hawick and Wilton RFC however cricket came first and this led to the splinter club of Hawick RFC forming in 1885. Hawick and Wilton RFC continued on after Hawick RFC formed as rivals; and for a time both the Hawick and Wilton Sevens and the later Hawick Sevens co-existed. Hawick and Wilton RFC eventually folded in 1890 as its members decided to purely focus on cricket. 1885 saw some rugby players of Hawick and Wilton RFC found

441-413: Was intended to bridge the gap between the amateur grade and the professional United Rugby Championship teams. A new set of dominant clubs arose after the members of the Super 6 broke off from the premiership. Currie Chieftains , Marr and a rejuvenated Hawick team became regular finishers in the playoff spots on the table from between the 2019/20 season and the present one (2023/24). All 3 sides winning

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