2024–25 National League 2 North

2024–25 National League 2 North
Countries	England
Date	7 September 2024 – 26 April 2025
Champions	Leeds (1st title)
Runners-up	Sheffield
Relegated	Harrogate[a]
Matches played	182
Attendance	72,312 (average 397 per match)
Highest attendance	2,125 – Sheffield v Sheffield Tigers, 20 December 2024
Lowest attendance	100 (2) – Harrogate v Sheffield, 1 February 2025, Harrogate v Fylde, 15 February 2025
Tries scored	1491 (average 8.2 per match)
Top point scorer	331 – Lewis Minikin (Hull Ionians)
Top try scorer	27 – Christian Hooper (Sheffield)

The 2024–25 National League 2 North was the 37th season of the fourth-tier (north) of the English domestic rugby union competitions; one of three at this level. The others are National League 2 East and National League 2 West.

Leeds Tykes finished the season as champions on 5 April with two games to go, following their away victory against Sheffield Tigers whilst nearest challengers Sheffield lost at Lymm.^[1] Leeds would be promoted back into the 2025–26 National League 1 after an absence of two seasons. While the title battle had been relatively close for the majority of the season, with three sides in close contention, in the end it was fairly comfortable for Tykes who finished 8 points clear of runners up Sheffield and 21 points ahead of 3rd placed Lymm.

The relegation battle was extremely keenly fought with four teams facing the drop by the final game. In the end it was Harrogate who were the unlucky side, despite a 48 – 35 victory against relegation rivals, Billingham, due to Billingham getting a try bonus and Preston Grasshoppers and Hull winning their respective games. Harrogate would finish with 52 points equal with Billingham but would go down as they had less wins - 6 to Billingham's 9.

Billingham were extra fortunate as normally they would have been relegated due to finishing second from bottom, but reorganisation of the RFU Championship expanding to 14 teams for the 2025–26 season, meant that the best ranked 13th placed team in National 2 would stay up, and Billingham did this comfortably with 52 points keeping them up at the expense of Bournville (National 2 West - 41 points) Colchester (National 2 East - 34 points).

The league consists of fourteen teams and each play the others on a home and away basis, to make a total of 26 matches each. The champions are promoted to National League 1 and the last two teams are relegated to Regional 1 North East or Regional 1 North West; depending on their location.

The results of the matches contribute points to the league as follows:

• 4 points are awarded for a win
• 2 points are awarded for a draw
• 0 points are awarded for a loss, however
• 1 losing (bonus) point is awarded to a team that loses a match by 7 points or fewer
• 1 additional (bonus) point is awarded to a team scoring 4 tries or more in a match.

Earlier in the season it had been indicated that the RFU Championship was due to increase from 12 to 14 teams for 2025–26. This was finally confirmed by the RFU with most of the season completed, and the subsequent league restructuring meant that one team per league level would have a reprieve from relegation, meaning that the best ranked 13th place team in National League 2 East, National League 2 North or National League 2 West would stay up at the end of 2024–25.^[2]

table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	TB	LB	Pts	Qualification
1	Leeds Tykes (C)	26	24	0	2	880	498	+382	22	1	119	Promotion place
2	Sheffield	26	22	0	4	933	523	+410	21	2	111
3	Lymm	26	19	0	7	915	737	+178	22	0	98
4	Fylde	26	15	0	11	777	661	+116	17	6	83
5	Tynedale	26	12	3	11	741	787	−46	17	5	76
6	Wharfedale	26	13	0	13	680	712	−32	16	2	70
7	Hull Ionians	26	10	0	16	762	811	−49	14	9	63
8	Sheffield Tigers	26	9	1	16	651	677	−26	14	11	63
9	Chester	26	11	0	15	758	835	−77	13	5	62
10	Otley	26	10	1	15	696	791	−95	11	6	59
11	Hull	26	10	0	16	663	849	−186	12	3	55
12	Preston Grasshoppers	26	8	1	17	689	856	−167	14	6	54
13	Billingham	26	9	1	16	615	808	−193	12	2	52
14	Harrogate (R)	26	6	1	19	652	867	−215	16	10	52	Relegation place

Fixtures for the season were published by the RFU on 31 May 2025.^[14]

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• Postponed due to snow. Game to be rescheduled for 30 November 2024.^[25]

• Postponed due to recent bad weather (snow, followed by wind and rain). Game to be rescheduled for 30 November 2024.^[26]

• Postponed due to waterlogged pitch. Game to be rescheduled for 30 November 2024.^[27]

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• Game rescheduled from 23 November 2024.

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• Game abandoned at half time with Billingham leading 5-0, due to adverse weather conditions.^[30] Game to be rescheduled for 1st February 2025.

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• Postponed due to frozen pitch.^[34] Game to be rescheduled for 1 February 2025.

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• Leeds Tykes are champions.

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• Harrogate are relegated following other results.

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Club	Home Games	Total	Average	Highest	Lowest	% Capacity
Billingham	13	5,598	431	794	310	29%
Chester	13	3,962	305	500	200	15%
Fylde	13	10,923	840	1,490	432	9%
Harrogate	13	2,775	213	600	100	11%
Hull	13	3,189	245	457	124	16%
Hull Ionians	13	4,398	338	805	212	23%
Leeds Tykes	13	6,633	510	1,064	220	30%
Lymm	13	3,835	295	445	154	28%
Otley	13	4,717	363	600	126	7%
Preston Grasshoppers	13	5,088	391	1,203	207	8%
Sheffield	13	6,285	483	2,125	168	15%
Sheffield Tigers	13	2,679	206	334	150	21%
Tynedale	13	5,601	431	550	220	22%
Wharfedale	13	6,629	510	684	300	25%

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