1994–95 National Division 1

1994–95 National Division 1
1994–95 National Division 1
Countries	England
Date	10 September 1995 – 4 May 1995
Champions	Leicester (2nd title)
Runners-up	Bath
Relegated	Northampton
Matches played	90
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The 1994–95 National Division 1 (sponsored by Courage Brewery) was the eight season of the top tier of the English rugby union league system, the Courage Clubs Championship, currently known as Premiership Rugby. Bath were the defending champions and West Hartlepool and Sale were the promoted teams. This was the first Courage League season to be shown live on Sky Sports.

Countries

England

Date10 September 1995 – 4 May 1995

ChampionsLeicester (2nd title)

Runners-upBath

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Leicester were the eventual champions, beating Bath by four points, claiming their second league title. The battle to avoid relegation was extremely keenly fought, with Northampton being the sole relegated side to the 1995–96 National Division 2 after Gloucester managed to draw their rescheduled game against Bath, meaning that the Kingsholm side stayed up instead.^[1]

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Team	Stadium	Capacity	City/Area	Previous season
Bath	Recreation Ground	8,300 (1,000 seats)^[2]	Bath, Somerset	Champions
Bristol	Memorial Stadium	8,500 (1,200 seats)^[3]	Bristol, Avon	4th
Gloucester	Kingsholm	12,000	Gloucester, Gloucestershire	8th
Harlequins	The Stoop	9,000 (2,000 seats)^[4]	Twickenham, London	6th
Leicester	Welford Road	14,700 (9,200 seats)^[5]	Leicester, Leicestershire	2nd
Northampton	Franklin's Gardens	6,000 (2,000 seats)^[6]	Northampton, Northamptonshire	5th
Orrell	Edge Hall Road	5,300 (300 seats)^[7]	Orrell, Greater Manchester	7th
Sale	Heywood Road	4,000 (500 seats)^[8]	Sale, Greater Manchester	Promoted from National 2 (1st)
Wasps	Repton Avenue	3,200 (1,200 seats)^[9]^[10]	Sudbury, London	3rd
West Hartlepool	Brierton Lane	7,000^[11]	Hartlepool, County Durham	Promoted from National 2 (2nd)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Leicester	18	15	1	2	400	239	+161	31
2	Bath	18	12	3	3	373	245	+128	27
3	Wasps	18	13	0	5	469	313	+156	26
4	Sale	18	7	2	9	327	343	−16	16
5	Orrell	18	6	3	9	256	325	−69	15
6	Bristol	18	7	0	11	301	353	−52	14
7	Gloucester	18	6	1	11	269	336	−67	13
8	Harlequins	18	6	1	11	275	348	−73	13
9	West Hartlepool	18	6	1	11	312	412	−100	13
10	Northampton	18	6	0	12	267	335	−68	12

Home \ Away	BAT	BRI	GLO	HAR	LEI	NOR	ORR	SAL	WAS	WHA
Bath		18–9	19–19	22–11	20–20	26–6	32–13	13–18	12–9	53–17
Bristol	9–10		21–17	19–14	31–22	13–24	20–9	44–22	24–25	12–17
Gloucester	10–15	19–17		17–28	9–3	14–13	9–6	8–20	16–21	48–12
Harlequins	19–25	9–10	10–14		13–40	10–9	6–8	15–15	26–57	20–10
Leicester	31–21	17–3	16–6	22–8		28–15	29–19	37–20	21–6	33–16
Northampton	16–32	15–18	9–6	16–23	18–20		15–3	9–22	19–13	25–14
Orrell	6–6	20–16	43–14	10–28	0–6	13–10		22–19	10–16	22–22
Sale	3–19	21–9	16–14	19–20	10–20	41–6	8–8		12–17	22–7
Wasps	11–10	27–15	45–8	25–7	18–23	27–21	52–25	52–22		33–22
West Hartlepool	18–20	47–11	22–21	10–8	6–12	12–21	17–19	23–17	20–15

1994–95 National Division 1

Structure

Participating teams

Table

Results

Fixtures & Results

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 11 (rescheduled game)

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

Round 13 (rescheduled game)

See also

References

External links

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