BUSA_Football_League

BUCS Football League

BUCS Football League

Football league


The BUCS Football League is the association football league system of British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS). It is the largest sport in UK higher education, with over 450 men's and women's teams competing in 100 leagues.[1]

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Competition format

The league follows the standard BUCS double pyramid, with two Premier divisions (North and South) sitting above five regions (Scottish, Northern, Midlands, Western and South Eastern). There are five divisions, one for each region, in the top regional tier (Tier 1), but at lower tiers the regions may be sub-divided into A, B, etc. divisions on a geographical basis. There are eight levels (Premier to Tier 7) in the men's pyramid and five (Premier to Tier 4) in the women's pyramid.[2]

Divisions each consist of six teams, with the exception of the bottom division in each region. Teams in divisions with six or fewer teams play each other twice, home and away, while teams in divisions with seven or more teams play once, either home or away.[2] All teams from the two Premier divisions enter the knockout Championship, teams in Tier 1 enter the Trophy, and teams in Tier 2 and below enter the Conference Cup. The bottom team from each Premier division and the top first teams from Tier 1 enter a promotion/relegation playoff at the end of the season; promotion and relegation between the regional tiers is automatic.[3]

Former winners

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Note: for consistency, current names are used throughout the table, e.g. Leeds Beckett rather than Leeds Met and Cardiff Met rather than UWIC.


References

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  2. "BUCS 2016-17 Provisional Leagues Document". BUCS. 6 July 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
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  7. "Loughborough athletes dominate BUCS indoor finals". Loughborough University. 16 March 2010. Retrieved 5 November 2016. Elsewhere in the BUCS Championships, Loughborough's men's football 1st XI beat Bournemouth University to win the championship after coming back from a goal down in the last ten minutes with strikes from Raul Alexis and Matt Aldred.
  8. "BUCS Football Season 2009-10 Round-Up". BUCS. 29 March 2010. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  9. "2008-2009 Season". BUCS. Archived from the original on 6 March 2010. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  10. "BUCS Sports Review 2007–2008" (PDF). BUCS. p. 10. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  11. "Loughborough Make it Three in a Row". BUSA. 5 May 2006. Archived from the original on 20 May 2006.
  12. "Women's Football Championship Clinched by Loughborough". BUSA. 4 May 2006. Archived from the original on 20 May 2006.
  13. "News Headlines 01/05/2005 - 31/05/2005". BUSA. Archived from the original on 29 December 2005.

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