2012–13 División de Honor de Rugby

Competition format

Teams

Regular season standings

Championship playoffs

Relegation playoff

References

External links

Bracket

Quarter-finals

1st leg

2nd leg

Semifinals

Final

2012–13 División de Honor
Countries	Spain
Champions	Valladolid
Runners-up	Santboiana
Relegated	La Vila
Matches played	137
Top point scorer	Eduardo Sorribes, 190
Top try scorer	Clinton Sills, 20

The 2012–13 División de Honor is the 46th season of the top flight of the Spanish domestic rugby union competition since its inception in 1953. Regular season began in September 2012 and finished on April 28, 2013.

The playoffs began on 19 May and the Final took place on 2 June.

Defending champions, Valladolid, successfully defended its previous season title after defeating Santboiana 27–25 in the championship final. La Vila was the relegated team to División de Honor B.

The regular season runs through 18 matchdays. 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.

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.

Valladolid /
El Salvador

Ordizia

Gernika

La Vila

Ciencias

Getxo

Vigo

Atl. Madrid

Santboiana

Complutense Cisneros

Hernani

2012–13 División de Honor teams

Team	Stadium	Capacity	City/Area
Atlético Madrid	Valle de las Cañas	300	Pozuelo de Alarcón
Bizkaia Gernika	Urbieta	2,500	Guernica, Biscay
Ciencias Sevilla	La Cartuja	1,932	Seville
Complutense Cisneros	Central de la Ciudad Universitaria	12,400	Madrid
El Salvador	Pepe Rojo	5,000	Valladolid
Getxo Artea	Fadura	500	Getxo
Hernani	Landare Toki	500	Hernani, Gipuzkoa
La Vila	El Pantano	1,550	Villajoyosa, Alicante
Ordizia	Altamira	500[1]	Ordizia, Gipuzkoa
Santboiana	Baldiri Aleu	4,000	Sant Boi de Llobregat
Universidade Vigo	Lagoas-Marcosende	3,000	Vigo
Valladolid	Pepe Rojo	5,000	Valladolid

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Bon	Pts
1	Valladolid	22	17	0	5	680	412	268	17	85
2	Santboiana	22	16	2	4	638	407	231	13	81
3	Bizkaia Gernika	22	15	0	7	673	445	228	15	75
4	El Salvador	22	13	1	8	530	390	140	14	68
5	Ordizia	22	12	2	8	584	536	48	13	65
6	Atlético Madrid	22	12	2	8	491	495	−4	8	60
7	Ciencias	22	8	0	14	557	555	2	18	50
8	Getxo Artea	22	9	0	13	474	520	−46	14	50
9	Complutense Cisneros	22	9	0	13	544	636	−92	14	50
10	Universidade Vigo	22	8	1	13	480	601	−121	10	44
11	Hernani	22	6	0	16	354	568	−214	8	32
12	La Vila	22	3	0	19	383	823	−440	5	17

Source: Federación Española de Rugby

	Qualified for championship playoff semi-finals
	Qualified for championship playoff quarter-finals
	Relegation playoff
	Relegated

Quarter-finals			Semi-finals			Final

			1	Valladolid	22
4	El Salvador	34	4	El Salvador	18
5	Ordizia	26				1	Valladolid	27
						2	Santboiana	25
			2	Santboiana	28
3	Bizkaia Gernika	15	6	Atlético Madrid	17
6	Atlético Madrid	29

2012–13 División de Honor winners
Valladolid Fourth title

May 18, 2013	Bizkaia Gernika	15–29	Atlético Madrid	Urbieta, Gernika
17:00 (UTC+2)	Try: Urionabarrenetxea 40' García-Parrado 48' c Con: Olaeta (1/2) Pen: Olaeta (1/1) 33'	Report	Try: Cloppet 2' c Rey 27' c Brasca 56' c Martín 65' Con: Nacho Heredia (3/4) Pen: Nacho Heredia (1/1)	Referee: Félix Villegas (Castile and León)

May 19, 2013	El Salvador	34–26	Ordizia	Pepe Rojo, Valladolid
12:30 (UTC+2)	Try: Carter 38' c Díaz 41' de la Llana 62' Mamea 71' c Carter 74' c Con: Carrizo (3/5) Pen: Carrizo (1/1) 6'	Report	Try: Marshall 22' c Darkintis 80' c Con: Kroll (2/2) Pen: Kroll (4/4) 3', 26', 54', 60'	Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Sergi Figueruelo (Catalonia)

May 25, 2013	Valladolid	22–18	El Salvador	Pepe Rojo, Valladolid
18:00 (UTC+2)	Try: Rolls 18' Álex Gutiérrez 36' c Gavidi 79' c Con: Griffiths (2/3) Pen: Griffiths (1/1) 55'	Report	Try: Carter 6' c Pearce 26' c Con: Carrizo (2/2) Pen: Carrizo (2/2) 33', 48'	Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Pedro Montoya (Basque Country)

May 26, 2013	Santboiana	28–17	Atlético Madrid	Baldiri Aleu, Sant Boi de Llobregat
12:00 (UTC+2)	Try: ? 28' c Puig 37' c Kiri Kiri ?' c Con: Lauret (2/2) Pen: Lauret (2/2) 26', 66' Canning (1/1) 76'	Report	Try: Canosa 58' c ? 78' c Con: Nacho Heredia (2/2) Pen: Nacho Heredia (1/2) 40'	Referee: Igotz Gallastegi (Basque Country)

June 2, 2013	Valladolid	27–25	Santboiana	Pepe Rojo, Valladolid
12:00 (UTC+2)	Try: Try penal 31' c Gavidi 75' c Perico 82' c Con: Griffiths (3/3) Pen: Griffiths (2/2) 13', 54'	Report	Try: Baker 12' c Kiri Kiri 24' Lyons 63' c Con: Lauret (2/3) Pen: Lauret (2/2) 10', 17'	Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Igotz Gallastegi (Basque Country)

The relegation playoff was contested over two legs by Hernani, who finished 11th in División de Honor, and neighbours Alcobendas, the losing team from División de Honor B promotion playoff final. Vigo won the tie, winning 36-25 on aggregate.

May 12, 2013	Alcobendas	11–31	Hernani	Las Terrazas, Alcobendas
12:30 (UTC+2)	Try: Mateu 66' Pen: Ati (2/2) 41', 45'	Report	Try: Apezetxea 14' Etxeberria 22' c Garmendia 73' c Con: Genua (2/3) Pen: Genua (4/4) 20', 40', 63', 80'	Referee: Alhambra Nievas (Andalusia)

May 19, 2013	Hernani	5–14	Alcobendas	Landare Toki, Hernani
12:00 (UTC+2)	Try: Esnal 28'	Report	Try: Anastasi 6' c Fertu 70' c Con: Ati (2/2)	Referee: Jorge Molpeceres (Catalonia)

Hernani remained in División de Honor. Sanitas Alcobendas remained in División de Honor B.

"Estadio Altamira" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 21 October 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2010.

Relegation/promotion playoff

Hernani

Alcobendas

Official site

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[1] "Estadio Altamira" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 21 October 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2010.