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((Short description|Amateur league competition for Scottish rugby union clubs))
((EngvarB|date=December 2018))
((Use dmy dates|date=December 2018))
((more citations needed|date=March 2014))
((Infobox sports league
| title           = Tennent's Premiership
| logo            = 
| pixels          = 250px
| caption         = 
| sport           = [[Rugby union]]
| founded         = 1973
| teams           = 10
| level           = 1
| country         = ((SCO))
| champion        = [[Hawick RFC|Hawick]] (13th title)
| most_champs     = [[Hawick RFC|Hawick]] (13 titles)
| domestic_cup    = [[Scottish Cup (rugby union)|Scottish Cup]]
| relegation      = [[Scottish National League Division One|National League Division One]]
| website         = http://www.scottishrugby.org/
))

The '''Scottish Premiership''' (referred to as the '''Tennents Premiership''' for sponsorship reasons) is the highest level of amateur league competition for Scottish [[rugby union]] clubs. First held in 1973, it is the top division of the [[Scottish League Championship]]. The most recent (2023) champions are [[Hawick RFC|Hawick]] who are also the most successful club who have won the competition thirteen times.

Ten clubs contest the league, with the bottom club relegated to the [[Scottish National League Division One]] and second-bottom club involved in a play-off.

The top level of club rugby in Scotland are the two professional teams – [[Glasgow Warriors]] and [[Edinburgh Rugby]] – that play in the [[Pro14|United Rugby Championship]]. They assign their players to the clubs below in a Pro-Draft; so that they can still play when not used by the professional sides.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.theoffsideline.com/tenants-premeirship-pro-player-draft-unvieled/|title=Tennent's Premiership pro player draft for 2018-19 season unveiled|date=22 August 2018))</ref> From season 2019–20 a semi-professional championship in Scotland, known as the [[Super 6 (rugby union)|Super 6]], was introduced – its teams no longer taken part in the Premiership competition. The Super 6 format is intended to bridge the gap between the amateur grade and the professional United Rugby Championship teams.

((Location map+ |Scotland|width=400 |float=right |caption=Location of teams in '''2023-24 Scottish Premiership'''|places=
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))

==History==

Up to season 1972–73, Scotland's rugby union clubs participated in what was known as the [[Scottish Unofficial Championship]]. It provided very unbalanced competition: some clubs played more fixtures than others and some fixture lists provided stiffer opposition than others. The resulting league table at the end of each season gave a very unbalanced and difficult-to-comprehend set of results.

Starting in season 1973–74, the [[Scottish Rugby Union]] organised the full member clubs into six leagues. This suited some of the 'open' clubs but many of the older former pupils clubs found it difficult to compete successfully and were forced into going 'open' themselves to try to recruit some of the better players. Those that didn't declined. Open clubs kept their old FP or Academical name, and still played on grounds owned by the schools. In the first 14 seasons of league rugby the Division I championship was won by [[Hawick RFC|Hawick]] on ten occasions.

One consequence was soon apparent: fewer players were selected from English clubs to represent Scotland. For the first time since before the [[First World War]], the domestic game was producing an adequate number of players of genuine international class.((citation needed|date=March 2014)) Though the SRU's administrators were often seen as backward looking,((citation needed|date=March 2014)) Scotland had a national league before England, [[Wales]] or Ireland.

[[Heriot's FP]] became the first city club to win the championship, they had already attracted "outsiders"; their leading try-scorer was [[Bill Gammell]], a [[Fettes College|Fettesian]] already capped for the [[Scotland national rugby union team]] while playing for [[Edinburgh Wanderers]]. League rugby drew the crowds, and the 20 years that followed its introduction were the best in the history of Scottish club rugby.((citation needed|date=March 2014)) In that period the title of champions rarely went out of [[the Borders]]: with [[Hawick RFC|Hawick]], [[Gala RFC|Gala]] and [[Melrose RFC|Melrose]] enjoying long periods of ascendancy. Recently, however, the Borders domination has faded and [[Glasgow Hawks]] won the title three times in successive years between 2003 and 2004 and 2005–06.

Since the advent of the leagues, the [[Scottish Rugby Union]] and its member clubs have re-organised the competition several times, usually to change the number of teams.

The top Scottish clubs qualified to the [[British and Irish Cup]] from 2009 to 2014.

==Competition format==
Each of the 10 clubs play each other at home and away between August and January, resulting in 18 games played by each club. Four points are awarded for a win, two for a draw and zero for a loss. Bonus points are also on offer in each game – one for scoring four or more tries and the other for the losing club finishing within seven points of the winning club.<ref name=natcomprules>((cite web|title=NATIONAL COMPETITION RULES 2015 – 2016 (the "Rules")|url=http://www.scottishrugby.org/sites/default/files/editor/docs/2015-2016_ncr_men27s_competition_regulations_0.pdf|access-date=20 August 2015))</ref>

===Play-off===
From season 2014–15 an end of season play-off was introduced for the top four clubs in the table. These clubs take part in a knock-out competition, with first playing third and second playing fourth in a semi-final match at the home venue of the highest finishing clubs. The winners then face each other in the final to determine the Premiership champion.

===Promotion and Relegation===
The 10th-placed club is relegated to [[Scottish National League Division One]] and replaced by the winners of National League Division One. The 9th-placed club takes part in a play-off match at a neutral venue with the 2nd-placed club in National League Division One. Although the [[Super 6 (rugby union)|Super 6]] established in 2019 is above the Premiership in the national hierarchy and its clubs were selected directly from the existing members, as of 2021 its format was a 'closed shop' with no movement of teams between the Super 6 and the Premiership.

==2022-23 Clubs==

'''Relegated to National 1'''
*[[Glasgow Hutchesons Aloysians RFC|Glasgow Hutchesons Aloysians]] (10th)

'''Promoted from National 1'''
*[[Kelso RFC|Kelso]]

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!width=25%|Team
!width=25%|Stadium
!width=18%|Capacity
!width=25%|City/Area
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|[[Heriot’s Rugby Club|Heriot’s]] 
|[[Goldenacre Sports Ground]]
| 3,000
|[[Edinburgh]]
|-
|[[Currie RFC|Currie]]
|[[Malleny Park]]
|2,000
|[[Balerno]], Edinburgh
|-
|[[Edinburgh Academical Football Club|Edinburgh Academicals]]
|[[Raeburn Place]]
|5,000
|[[Edinburgh]]
|-
|[[Glasgow Hawks RFC|Glasgow Hawks]]
|[[Balgray playing fields|Balgray]]
|3,000
|[[Glasgow]]
|-
|[[Hawick RFC|Hawick]]
|[[Mansfield Park, Hawick|Mansfield Park]]
|5,000
|[[Hawick]], [[Scottish Borders]]
|-
|[[Jed-Forest RFC|Jed-Forest]]
|[[Riverside Park, Jedburgh|Riverside Park]]
|3,500
|[[Jedburgh]], Scottish Borders
|-
|[[Kelso RFC|Kelso]]
|Poynder Park
|3,000
|[[Kelso, Scottish Borders|Kelso]], [[Scottish Borders]]
|-
|[[Marr RFC|Marr]]
|Fullerton Park
|4,000
|[[Troon]], [[Ayrshire]]
|-
|[[Musselburgh RFC|Musselburgh]]
|Stoneyhill
|3,000
|[[Musselburgh]], [[East Lothian]]
|-
|[[Selkirk RFC|Selkirk]]
|[[Philiphaugh Stadium]]
| 6,000
|[[Selkirk, Scottish Borders|Selkirk]], Scottish Borders
|-
|}

==Past winners==
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#<li value=1974>[[Hawick RFC|Hawick]]
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#[[Stirling County RFU|Stirling County]]
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#[[Melrose RFC|Melrose]]
#[[Ayr RFC|Ayr]]
#Season Null and Void
#Cancelled
#[[Marr RFC|Marr]]
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==References==
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((SRU premiership))
((Rugby union in Scotland))
((Top-level rugby union club competitions))

[[Category:Rugby union leagues in Scotland|2]]
[[Category:1973 establishments in Scotland]]
[[Category:Second level rugby union leagues in Europe|Scotland]]
[[Category:Sports leagues established in 1973]]

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