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2001–02 National Division Two
Countries	England
Champions	Orrell
Runners-up	Plymouth Albion (also promoted)
Relegated	Preston Grasshoppers, Waterloo, Rosslyn Park
Attendance	85,620 (average 504 per match)
Highest attendance	2,100 Plymouth Albion at home to Fylde on 5 January 2002
Lowest attendance	85 Preston Grasshoppers at home to Newbury Blues on 2 March 2002
Top point scorer	Phil Jones Orrell 343 points
Top try scorer	Dan Ward-Smith Plymouth Albion 23 tries
← 2000-012002-03 →

The 2001–02 National Division Two was the second version (fifteenth overall) of the third division of the English domestic rugby union competition using the name National Division Two. New teams to the division included Orrell and Waterloo who were relegated from the 2000–01 National Division One while Stourbridge (champions) and Sedgley Park (playoffs) came up from the 2000–01 National Division Three North and Plymouth Albion as champions of the 2000-01 National Division Three South. The league points system was 2 points for a win and 1 point for a draw.

The title race was extremely tight and went to the last game with Orrell winning their rescheduled game away to Nottingham to draw dead level with Plymouth Albion at the top of the table and take the title by virtue of a better points difference – the fact Orrell had won both of their games against Plymouth was largely responsible for their victory. Both sides would be promoted to the 2002–03 National Division One with Orrell making an instant return following their relegation at the start of the season while Plymouth would make it a second promotion in a row. As well as gaining promotion the Devon-based side would also be easily the most popular side in the division with over 19,000 fans in total attending throughout the season. At the opposite end of the table Preston Grasshoppers and Waterloo would be the first sides to be relegated, followed by Rosslyn Park who battled to the end but never had quite enough to overtake relegation rivals Stourbridge and Kendal. Preston and Waterloo would drop down to the 2002–03 National Division Three North while Rosslyn Park went down to the 2002–03 National Division Three South, with Waterloo suffering their second consecutive relegation. It was quite a turn around for Rosslyn Park who went within a whisker to being promoted the previous season only to be relegated this season.

Participating teams and locations

Final league table

Results

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

• Postponed. Game rescheduled to 29 December 2001.

• Postponed. Game rescheduled to 29 December 2001.

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

• Postponed. Game rescheduled to 16 February 2002.

Round 14

• Postponed. Game rescheduled to 2 March 2002.

Round 10 (rescheduled games)

• Game rescheduled from 24 November 2001.

• Game rescheduled from 24 November 2001.

Round 15

• Postponed. Game rescheduled to 16 February 2002.

• Postponed. Game rescheduled to 16 February 2002.

• Postponed. Game rescheduled to 20 April 2002.

• Postponed. Game rescheduled to 16 February 2002.

• Postponed. Game rescheduled to 16 February 2002.

• Postponed. Game rescheduled to 16 February 2002.

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

• Postponed. Game rescheduled to 2 March 2002.

Round 19

Round 20

• Postponed. Game rescheduled to 2 March 2002.

Rounds 13 & 15 (rescheduled games)

• Game rescheduled from 5 January 2002.

• Game rescheduled from 5 January 2002.

• Game rescheduled from 15 December 2001.

• Game rescheduled from 5 January 2002.

• Game rescheduled from 5 January 2002.

• Game rescheduled from 5 January 2002.

Round 21

Rounds 14, 18 & 20 (rescheduled games)

• Game rescheduled from 22 December 2001.

• Game rescheduled from 9 February 2002.

• Game rescheduled from 26 January 2002.

Round 22

Round 23

Round 24

Round 25

Round 26

Round 15 (rescheduled game)

• Game rescheduled from 5 January 2002.

Total season attendances

1. Note that 12 home attendances are missing (see below) - so the total attendance will not be 100% accurate. The average attendance has also been taken into account with the missing games not included.
2. Missing home attendances v Wharfedale on 9 February 2002 & Waterloo on 9 March 2002.
3. Missing home attendances v Preston on 27 October 2001 & Newbury on 19 January 2002.
4. Missing home attendance v Plymouth on 27 October 2001.
5. Missing home attendance v Kendal on 8 December 2001.
6. Missing home attendance v Rosslyn Park on 9 February 2002.
7. Missing home attendance v Kendal on 6 October 2001.
8. Missing home attendance v Nottingham on 8 December 2001.
9. Missing home attendance v Plymouth on 9 March 2002.
10. Missing home attendance v Rosslyn Park on 8 December 2001.
11. Missing home attendance v Plymouth in December 2001.

Individual statistics

• Note that points scorers includes tries as well as conversions, penalties and drop goals.

Top points scorers Rank Player Team Appearances Points 1 Phil Jones Orrell 26 343 2 Jonathon Gregory Esher 26 311 3 Ben Harvey Stourbridge 25 298 4 Lee Cholewa Harrogate 26 284 5 Jonathon Davies Wharfedale 26 278 6 Mike Scott Kendal 26 271 7 Colin Stephens Sedgley Park 21 244 8 Tom Barlow Plymouth 26 211 9 Chris Glynn Preston Grasshoppers 25 210 10 Russell Southam Nottingham 17 203

Top try scorers Rank Player Team Appearances Tries 1 Dan Ward-Smith Plymouth Albion 26 23 2 Neil Kerfoot Orrell 23 19 Andy Craig Orrell 25 19 3 John Dudley Harrogate 25 16 Freeman Payne Waterloo 26 16 4 Phil Jones Orrell 26 15 Andrew Hodgson Wharfedale 25 15 5 Wes Davies Orrell 15 13 6 Ross Bullough Sedgley Park 15 12 Rob Moon Sedgley Park 17 12

Season records

See also

• English Rugby Union Leagues
• English rugby union system
• Rugby union in England

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