Warwickshire 1 was a tier 9 English Rugby Union league with teams from Warwickshire taking part. Promoted teams moved up to Midlands 4 West (South) and relegated sides dropped to Warwickshire 2. Warwickshire 1 was cancelled at the end of the 2005–06 season with the majority of teams transferred into the newly introduced Midlands 5 West (South).
Original teams
When league rugby began in 1987 this division contained the following teams:
Atherstone Broadstreet Coventry Welsh Dunlop GEC Coventry Keresley Old Coventrians Old Laurentians Old Wheatleyans Rugby St Andrews Trinity Guild
Warwickshire 1 honours
Warwickshire 1 (1987–1992)
The original Warwickshire 1 was a tier 8 league with promotion up to Staffordshire/Warwickshire and relegation to Warwickshire 2. At the end of the 1991–92 season the merging of all Staffordshire and Warwickshire leagues meant that Warwickshire 1 was discontinued for the years that these leagues were active.
Warwickshire 1SeasonNo of teamsChampionsRunners–upRelegated teamsReference 1987–88 11 Keresley Coventry Welsh Old Laurentians, Atherstone 1988–89 11 Coventry Welsh Trinity Guild Rugby St Andrews, GEC Coventry 1989–90 11 Broadstreet Trinity Guild Manor Park 1990–91 11 Kenilworth Old Laurentians Southam 1991–92 11 Old Laurentians Trinity Guild No relegation Green backgrounds are promotion places.
Warwickshire (1996–2000)
Restructuring of the Staffordshire/Warwickshire leagues ahead of the 1996–97 season saw the reintroduction of a single Warwickshire league, which along with its counterpart Staffordshire was a tier 9 league. Promotion was to Staffordshire/Warwickshire 1 and there was no relegation until the reintroduction of Warwickshire 2 at the end of the 1999–00 season.
WarwickshireSeasonNo of teamsChampionsRunners–upRelegated teamsReference 1996–97 9 Claverdon Ford No relegation 1997–98 10 Harbury Atherstone No relegation 1998–99 10 Atherstone Rugby St Andrews No relegation 1999–00 9 Rugby St Andrews Old Wheatleyans Multiple teams Green backgrounds are promotion places.
Warwickshire 1 (2000–2006)
The cancellation of Staffordshire/Warwickshire 1 would see Warwickshire become Warwickshire 1, remaining as a tier 9 league. Promotion was to Midlands 4 West (South) and relegation to Warwickshire 2 until that division was cancelled at the end of the 2003–04 season. At the end of the 2005–06 season Warwickshire 1 was cancelled and all teams transferred to the newly introduced Midlands 5 West (South) and Midlands 6 West (South-East) divisions.
Warwickshire 1SeasonNo of teamsChampionsRunners–upRelegated teamsReference 2000–01 10 Earlsdon Coventry Welsh Pinley, Claverdon 2001–02 10 Marconi Shipston-on-Stour Standard 2002–03 10 Trinity Guild Dunlop Claverdon, Old Wheatleyans 2003–04 8 Manor Park Coventry Welsh Stoke Old Boys, Pinley, Alcester 2004–05 9 Harbury Coventry Welsh Old Wheatleyans, Coventry Technical 2005–06 10 Spartans (Midlands) Dunlop No relegation Green backgrounds are promotion places.
Number of league titles
Harbury (2) Atherstone (1) Broadstreet (1) Claverdon (1) Coventry Welsh (1) Earlsdon (1) Kenilworth (1) Keresley (1) Manor Park (1) Marconi (1) Old Laurentians (1) Rugby St Andrews (1) Spartans (Midlands) (1) Trinity Guild (1)
See also Warwickshire 2 Warwickshire 3 Midlands RFU Warwickshire RFU English rugby union system Rugby union in England
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