2015–16 División de Honor de Rugby explained

2015–16 División de Honor
Countries:	Spain
Date:	19 September 2015 – 1 May 2016 (regular season) 15 May 2016 – 28 May 2016 (championship playoff)
Champions:	El Salvador
Runnersup:	Valladolid
Relegated:	Pozuelo
Matches:	137
Tries:	791
Top Point Scorer:	Samuel Katz, 317
Top Try Scorer:	Anthony Matoto, 24
Prevseason:	2014–15
Nextseason:	2016–17

The 2015–16 División de Honor was the 49th season of the top flight of the Spanish domestic rugby union competition since its inception in 1953. Regular season began on 19 September 2015 and finished on 1 May 2016.

The playoffs began in May, with the Final taking place on 28 May.

El Salvador won its eighth División de Honor title after defeating local arch-rivals Valladolid in the Final 24–23, held at Estadio Pepe Rojo on 28 May. Pozuelo was the team relegated to División de Honor B de Rugby.

Competition format

The regular season runs through 22 match days. Upon completion the regular season, it is the turn of championship playoffs. The breakdown is as follows;

Teams in 1st & 2nd at regular season standings receive a bye to semifinal.
Teams at 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th position plays for the two vacant places in quarter-finals.
Team in 11th position plays the relegation playoff.
Team in 12th position is relegated.

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Each win means 4 points to winning team.
A draw means 2 points for each team.
1 bonus point for a team that achieves 4 tries in a match.
A defeat by 7 or less points means 1 bonus point for defeated team.

Teams

Team	Stadium	Capacity	City
Alcobendas	Las Terrazas	500	Alcobendas
Barcelona	La Teixonera	500	Barcelona
Cisneros	Estadio Complutense	12,400	Madrid
El Salvador	Pepe Rojo	5,000	Valladolid
Gernika_RT	Urbieta zelaia	1,000	Gernika
Getxo Artea R.T.	Fadura	1,000	Guecho
Hernani	Landare Toki	500	Hernani, Gipuzkoa
Independiente	San Román	1,500	Santander, Cantabria
Ordizia	Altamira	500^[1]	Ordizia, Gipuzkoa
Pozuelo	Valle de las Cañas	300	Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid
Santboiana	Baldiri Aleu	4,000	Sant Boi de Llobregat
Valladolid	Pepe Rojo	5,000	Valladolid

Results

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Alcobendas		29-7	27-36	24-16	42-18	42-7	34-17	37-24	44-56	22-23	14-44	10-43
Barcelona	23-16		24-41	15-15	28-24	40-20	24-15	7-47	22-34	10-6	38-44	21-30
Cisneros	7-20	41-23		17-27	32-29	53-31	51-17	16-24	49-31	30-3	36-18	22-22
El Salvador	27-17	45-10	29-21		38-15	47-18	57-0	30-23	43-14	52-17	42-39	40-19
Gernika RT	16-13	55-12	16-14	21-37		20-22	27-21	24-30	22-32	19-17	33-32	17-21
Getxo	14-19	18-25	27-32	12-51	34-22		31-12	17-28	14-50	28-39	31-15	5-27
Hernani	30-25	26-20	34-27	13-40	42-20	15-29		20-34	22-20	22-18	0-32	0-41
Independiente	26-34	34-34	21-16	36-34	17-19	35-21	31-12		50-14	42-30	49-20	16-39
Ordizia	27-28	15-19	13-16	18-24	20-13	25-27	29-46	6-29		42-33	10-37	16-18
Pozuelo	10-21	5-29	19-22	8-40	34-19	21-33	30-25	24-41	56-36		31-13	10-29
Santboiana	28-24	34-13	17-21	61-24	40-10	49-24	48-22	24-13	56-12	56-7		26-32
Valladolid	38-21	45-12	33-6	20-5	41-13	28-14	75-12	20-13	46-20	64-14	44-15

Table

	Team	Games				Points			Tries				Pts
	Team	P	W	D	L								Pts
1	Valladolid	22	20	1	1	775	328	+447	105	38	67	16	98
2	El Salvador	22	17	1	4	763	438	+325	97	54	43	13	83
3	Independiente	22	14	1	7	663	498	+165	81	57	24	14	72
4	Santboiana	22	13	0	9	748	530	+218	100	65	35	17	69
5	Cisneros	22	13	1	8	606	505	+101	82	61	21	14	68
6	Alcobendas	22	11	0	11	563	537	+26	75	64	11	14	58
7	FC Barcelona	22	8	2	12	456	639	-183	54	92	-38	6	42
8	Getxo Artea RT	22	7	0	15	477	695	-298	64	95	-31	12	40
9	Ordizia R.E.	22	6	0	16	540	714	-174	73	96	-23	16	40
10	Hernani CRE	22	7	0	15	423	743	-320	60	110	-50	10	38
11	Gernika R.T	22	7	0	15	472	619	-147	58	78	-20	9	37
12	CRC Pozuelo	22	6	0	16	455	695	-240	58	97	-39	11	35
Source: División de Honor Table (accessed 4 May 2016)

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Championship playoffs

Semifinals

Final

Relegation playoff

The relegation playoff was played over two legs by Bizkaia Gernika, the team finishing 11th in División de Honor, and CAU Valencia, the losing team from División de Honor B promotion playoff final. Bizkaia Gernika won 129–25 on aggregate and remained in División de Honor for 2016–17 season.

2nd leg

Scorers statistics

Top try scorers

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Top points scorers

External links

Official site

Notes and References

Web site: Estadio Altamira . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101021103512/http://www.ordiziarugby.com/content/view/45/79/lang,es/ . 21 October 2010 . 13 September 2010 . Spanish.
Web site: regular season stats . 2016-05-04 . 2015-05-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150528231407/http://www.ferugby.es/comp_nacional.php?nombre_categoria=Division%20de%20Honor&titulo=Estadisticas . dead .