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• September 1, 2024 – Registration opens, all players practicing rugby must be properly registered.
• April 1, 2025 – Registration Deadline – Deadline to register as a player to be eligible for playoffs. (The player must still meet the other player eligibility requirements or obtain a waiver from the Senior Club Council Eligibility Committee).
• April 5, 2025 – RRRC Semifinals
• April 12, 2025 – RRRC Championships
• May 3-4, 2025 – Gulf Coast Superregional Tournament (Round of 8)
• May 16-18, 2025 – USA Rugby Finals Weekend

The 2024-25 Men’s Division 1 in the Red River Premiership will feature home and away matches between six clubs. The top two MD1 sides at the end of the regular season will play each other for the Red River Premiership Championship on Saturday, April 26, 2025. Should a tie in the point standings exist at the end of the regular season competition, the advancing teams will be determined by the existing Red River Tiebreaker Policy.

Playoffs & Seeding

The winner of the Red River Premiership Championship, will advance to the USA Men’s Division 1 Semifinal on the National Finals Weekend (May 16, 2024).

The Women’s Premiership consists of six clubs split into Division 1 and Division 2. Teams play home and away games within their division, avoiding lower-division sides from multi-side clubs, and also compete in crossover matches between divisions. This format will span multiple years, with home and away games alternating annually for crossovers.

Divisional Alignments

• Houston sHARCs (D1)
• Austin Valkyries (D1)
• Dallas Harlequins (D1)
• Little Rock (D2)
• Houston sHARCs 2 (D2)
• San Antonio Riveters (D2)

Playoffs & Seeding

At the end of the league season, the top two D1 teams will compete in a Championship final on April 12, 2025, at the RRRC Championships. The top two D2 teams will follow the same format.

The team crowned as the Red River Conference Women’s D1 Champion will move forward to the USA Rugby National Playoffs (Semi-finals) on May 16, 2025. The team crowned as the Red River Conference Women’s D2 Champion will advance to the Gulf Coast Super Regional on May 3-4, 2025.

The Men’s D2 division includes ten teams where clubs will play each of the other clubs, either Home or Away resulting in a nine game season. The top four teams will move on to the playoffs.

Playoffs & Seeding

The semi-final matches will be the week before the TRU / Red River Championship weekend on Saturday, pitting the #1 vs #4, and #2 vs #3. The higher ranked teams (#1 and #2) will host the semi-final match on their preferred fields. The winners of those two matches will advance to the Red River Men’s D2 final at the TRU / Red River Championship weekend. The winner of the Red River Conference will advance to the USA Rugby National Playoffs, as the Red River Men’s D2 Champion.

If the Men’s D2 Red River Champion wins both matches in the Gulf Coast Super Regionals, they will advance to the USA Rugby Men’s D2 Semifinal match on the National Finals Weekend.

The Men’s D3 Competition is divided into North, Central, South, and D1-C (D1 sides with D3 sides) subdivisions. Teams will play home and away matches against others in their subdivision. Since D1-C has 4 clubs, compared to 5 in the other subdivisions, D1-C teams will play interdivisional matches against teams from the other subdivisions based on their seeding from the 2023/2024 season, creating a 9-match league schedule for most teams.

For example, the Austin Blacks (D1-C #1 seed from 2023/2024) will face Shreveport RFC (D3 South #1 seed), San Antonio (D3 Central #1 seed), and Little Rock (D3 North #1 seed). This format applies to the #2, #3, and #4 seeds as well. D3 Central’s 5th seed, McAllen, will play HURT 2 in interdivisional play, while Tulsa (another new 5th seed) will not have an interdivisional match this year.

Playoffs & Seeding

The top team from each subdivision will advance to the Red River/TRU Semifinal Round on April 5, 2025. The two semifinal winners will then move on to the Red River Championship on April 12, 2025.

Semifinal Format – 4

• Teams Four subdivision winners will compete in the Semifinal Round, with the higher-seeded teams hosting.
• Subdivision winners will be determined by standings points within each subdivision, with tiebreakers applied if necessary. For D3 North, where Tulsa has one fewer match, the winner will be determined by a weighted average of standing points (Standings Points earned ÷ Maximum Possible Standings Points), with tiebreakers applied if needed.
• Seeding for the semifinals will also be based on weighted average standings points.
• The #1 seed will host the #4 seed, and the #2 seed will host the #3 seed on April 5, 2025.

The two semifinal winners will advance to the Red River Championship on April 12, 2025. The Red River Champion will then compete in the Gulf Coast Super Regional on May 3-4, 2025. If the Men’s D3 Red River Champion wins both Round of 8 matches, they will advance to the National Finals Weekend from May 17-19, 2025.

Women’s D3 clubs will play the other clubs of their conference both home and away. Points will be awarded per league match and recorded in RX in order to rank clubs for playoffs.

Playoffs & Seeding

The Men’s D4 competition continues to exists only in the North. With an emphasis on development of the game, Division 4 is subject to relaxed eligibility and competition rules. For full eligibility regulations, review the TRU Men’s D4 and Women’s D3 Division Regulations.