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- The 2017 Bill Beaumont County Championship Division 2 was the 16th version of the annual English rugby union, County Championship organised by the RFU for the tier 2 English counties. This was the first season it would be officially known as Bill Beaumont Division 2 having previously been known as the County Championship Plate. Each county drew its players from rugby union clubs from the third tier and below of the English rugby union league system (typically National League 1, National League 2 North or National League 2 South). The counties were divided into two regional pools (north/south) with four teams in each and the winners of each pool meeting in the final at Twickenham Stadium. Due to changes to the County Championship format (more detail of this below) four new teams were added to the competition, with Hampshire (winners) and Staffordshire (runners up) coming up due to reaching the final of the 2016 County Championship Shield, while Warwickshire and Cumbria were also promoted by virtue of their performances in the competition during the past two seasons. The changes also meant that there were no teams relegated into the division. Leicestershire and Hampshire won their respective groups to qualify for the Twickenham final, with Leicestershire being the more impressive with three easy victories. The first half of the final was fairly close with Leicestershire going in 8-0 up, but in the second half they added a further four tries to win their first ever Division 2 competition by a final score of 39-7. It was a well deserved win for Leicestershire who were by the far the strongest county in Division 2 this season and it would be no surprise if they are in the top division in a couple of year's time. (en)
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- Cumbria (en)
- Hampshire (en)
- Leicestershire (en)
- Somerset (en)
- Staffordshire (en)
- Warwickshire (en)
- Durham County (en)
- North Midlands (en)
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- Locations of the 2017 Division 2 county teams (en)
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- Cumbria (en)
- Hampshire (en)
- Leicestershire (en)
- Somerset (en)
- Staffordshire (en)
- Warwickshire (en)
- Durham County (en)
- North Midlands (en)
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- Claire Hodnett (en)
- Gareth Holsgrove (en)
- Jack Lewars (en)
- Neil Chivers (en)
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- Twickenham Stadium, London (en)
- Gosport Park, Gosport (en)
- Heathbrook, Kingswinford (en)
- Webb Ellis Road, Rugby (en)
- Ashby Lane, Lutterworth (en)
- Bleach Green, Egremont (en)
- Cooke Fields, Lichfield (en)
- Hook's Lane, Bedhampton, Havant (en)
- Mayfield Park, Hartlepool (en)
- Old Bath Road, Bridgwater (en)
- Showground Way, Barleythorpe, Oakham (en)
- Trentham Fields, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent (en)
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- The 2017 Bill Beaumont County Championship Division 2 was the 16th version of the annual English rugby union, County Championship organised by the RFU for the tier 2 English counties. This was the first season it would be officially known as Bill Beaumont Division 2 having previously been known as the County Championship Plate. Each county drew its players from rugby union clubs from the third tier and below of the English rugby union league system (typically National League 1, National League 2 North or National League 2 South). The counties were divided into two regional pools (north/south) with four teams in each and the winners of each pool meeting in the final at Twickenham Stadium. (en)
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- 2017 Bill Beaumont County Championship Division 2 (en)
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