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Champion Colleges
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United Kingdom
College Year Groups
Years 12 - 13
Competitions
Boys, Girls

The Champion Colleges is a rugby league football competition administered by the University and College Rugby League (formerly the Student Rugby League).

It is open to teams in the 12-13 year groups at Sixth Forms and Further Education (FE) Colleges in the UK. The competition determines regional and national champions.

Regional stages take place in Yorkshire, the North West, Cumbria, Midlands, London and the South and Wales between February and March and the national stages running consecutively through to May.

History

The Student Rugby League was founded in 1967 when a team was created at Leeds University by Andrew Cudbertson, Jack Abernathy and Cec Thompson, other teams soon joined in areas of the United Kingdom which lay outside of the game's traditional heartlands. The first university game was between Leeds and Liverpool in 1968. A year later the Universities and Colleges Rugby League was formed after student pioneers fought hard to get the sport recognised in higher education.

The Champion Schools tournament began in 1981 and was re-launched in 2002 by the Rugby Football League in partnership with English Schools Rugby League. The strong growth of Champion Schools, led to the creation of the Champion Colleges competition for years 12–13.

As of 2008, 48 colleges and 800 students participated in the Champion Colleges Cup competition, with 420 schools and 25,000 pupils participating in the related Champion Schools tournament.

Involvement with the competition assisted Leeds Beckett University (then known as Leeds Metropolitan University) in their successful bid to become the UK Centre of Coaching Excellence as well as win the 2008 Coaching Environment of the Year Award.

National Final Result

See also

References

  1. "About Community Game: Student Rugby League". Rugby Football League. 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-01-02.
  2. "Community Board organisations". Rugby Football League. Archived from the original on 2017-06-29.
  3. ^ Denton, Steve; Brown, Sally (2009) , A Practical Guide to University and College Management: Beyond Bureaucracy (1st ed.), Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 270–271, ISBN 9781135283247
  4. ^ "Wakefield College retain Carnegie Champion Colleges Cup with victory over Hopwood Hall at Odsal". Wakefield Express. 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2018-05-08.

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