2016–17 English Premiership (rugby union)

2016–17 Aviva Premiership
Countries	England
Date	3 September 2016 – 27 May 2017
Official website
www.premiershiprugby.com
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

The 2016–17 Aviva Premiership will be the 30th season of the top flight of English domestic rugby union competition, and the seventh to be sponsored by Aviva. The competition will be broadcast by BT Sport for the fourth successive season. Highlights of each weekend's games are shown on ITV4.

Teams

2016–17 Aviva Premiership Teams

As of 4 May 2016, the following teams will play in the Premiership: The 12th team will be the Green King IPA Championship champion or London Irish if Bedford Blues win the Championship as they are not eligible for promotion to the premiership.

Club	Coach	Captain	Stadium	Capacity	City/Area	Kit manufacturers
Bath	Mike Ford	Stuart Hooper	The Recreation Ground	13,500	Bath, Somerset	Canterbury
Exeter Chiefs	Rob Baxter	Jack Yeandle	Sandy Park	12,300	Exeter, Devon	Samurai
Gloucester	David Humphreys	Billy Twelvetrees	Kingsholm Stadium	16,500	Gloucester, Gloucestershire	KooGa
Harlequins	Conor O'Shea	Danny Care	Twickenham Stoop	14,816	Twickenham, Greater London	adidas
Leicester Tigers	Richard Cockerill	Ed Slater	Welford Road	25,800	Leicester, Leicestershire	Canterbury
Newcastle Falcons	John Wells	Will Welch	Kingston Park	10,200	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear	Gilbert
Northampton Saints	Jim Mallinder	Lee Dickson	Franklin's Gardens	15,500	Northampton, Northamptonshire	Burrda
Sale Sharks	Steve Diamond	Daniel Braid	AJ Bell Stadium	12,000	Salford, Greater Manchester	Samurai
Saracens	Mark McCall	Alistair Hargreaves	Allianz Park	10,000	Barnet, Greater London	Nike
Wasps	Dai Young	James Haskell Matt Mullan	Ricoh Arena	32,609	Coventry, West Midlands	Under Armour
Worcester Warriors	Dean Ryan	Gerrit-Jan van Velze	Sixways Stadium	12,024	Worcester, Worcestershire	KooGa

Pre-season

The 2016 edition of the Singha Premiership Rugby Sevens will held in July and August. Once again, the four Welsh Regions will contest a group, alongside the twelve Premiership clubs, which are split into three groups. The top two sides from each group will contest the series final at the Ricoh Arena on 6 August.

Regular season

Fixtures for the season will announced by Premiership Rugby in early July. As is the norm, round 1 is expected to include the London Double Header at Twickenham.

Play-offs

As with previous season, the top four teams will contest the semi-finals in a 1st v 4th, 2nd v 3rd format. The two remaining teams will then face off in the final held at Twickenham in late May.

Notes

References

External links

Official website

English Premiership

2015–16 teams	Bath Exeter Chiefs Gloucester Harlequins Leicester Tigers London Irish Newcastle Falcons Northampton Saints Sale Sharks Saracens Wasps Worcester Warriors

Former clubs	Bedford Bristol Coventry Leeds Carnegie (Leeds Tykes) Liverpool St Helens London Scottish London Welsh Moseley Nottingham Orrell Richmond Rosslyn Park Rotherham Titans Rugby Lions Waterloo West Hartlepool

Seasons	1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Rugby union in England

Governing body

National teams

Men's	England England Saxons 7's U-20 U-21 U-19 U-18 Schoolboys British and Irish Lions England Counties XV

Women's	Women's 7's

International Competitions

Competition divisions

European competitions

National competitions

London and South East
competitions

Midland competitions

Northern competitions

South West competitions

County competitions

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