Llanelli won the third and final Welsh-Scottish League.
2001–2002 League Table
The top 5 Welsh teams plus Glasgow and Edinburgh qualified for next season's Heineken Cup. At the end of this season Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh Rugby left the Scottish-Welsh League; making the 2002–03 a nine team Welsh Premier Division. The bottom side Caerphilly thus avoided regulation.
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Results
With 11 teams in the league it was impossible to have an even round system where each team played one another in a weekend. (One team would always have to sit out.)
The fixture list was instead devised so that teams would fulfil their fixtures in weekend or mid-week slots.
Each team would play 20 rounds in total.
The first 4 or 5 rounds for each club were hosted jointly by the Celtic League (dependent on which Celtic League pool those teams were in).
Welsh-Scottish and Celtic League fixtures
These rounds counted both for the Welsh-Scottish League and for the Celtic League.
Pool A of the Celtic League had 8 teams, Pool B had 7 teams in total. Of that, Pool A had 6 Scottish-Welsh teams and Pool B had 5 Scottish-Welsh teams.
Thus Scottish and Welsh teams of Pool A had 5 matches against one another. Scottish and Welsh teams of Pool B had 4 matches against one another.
These matches were played first in allocated slots.
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After 7 slots, each team had now played 4 or 5 rounds (depending on whether they were in Celtic League Pool A or B).
The remaining slots and rounds played were purely for the Welsh-Scottish League.
Welsh-Scottish League fixtures
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