Bill Beaumont County Championship Division 2
The Bill Beaumont County Championship Division 2 is an annual rugby union competition in England between teams representing English counties. It was formed in 2002 as the County Championship Shield - changing to Plate by 2010 and then to Bill Beaumont Division 2 by 2017.
Division 2 is split into three regional groups with each team alternating between 2 home games and 1 away game in one championship cycle, and 1 home game and 2 away games in the next, with the top teams and the best placed runner up playing in a Semi-final, with the winners meeting in a final held at Twickenham Stadium along with other county divisional finals. Since the covid pandemic and a decline in counties entering, Promotion and Relegation have been replaced by counties opting into a preferred division, with a Level cap preventing uneven games. Division 2's Level cap is level 5 of the English rugby union system, meaning counties can only select from Regional 1 and below.
Past winners
Number of wins
- Northumberland
- Cheshire
- Kent
- Leicestershire
- Warwickshire
- Durham County
- East Midlands
- Hertfordshire
- North Midlands
- Surrey
- Somerset
- Dorset & Wilts
- Oxfordshire