2011–12 División de Honor de Rugby

2011–12 División de Honor
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Countries	Spain
Champions	VRAC Quesos Entrepinares
Runners-up	AMPO Ordizia
Relegated	Sanitas Alcobendas
Matches played	90
Tries scored	600 (average 6.667 per match)
Top point scorer	Daniel Waenga, 221
Top try scorer	Julen Goia, 17
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The 2011–12 División de Honor was the 34th season of the top flight of the Spanish domestic rugby union competitions since 1970. It began in autumn 2011 and finished on May 12 with the Final. The defending champions are CR La Vila, while Iveco Universidade Vigo and Getxo Artea RT are the teams promoted from División de Honor B.

Competition format

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 9th position plays the relegation playoff.
• Team in 10th position is relegated.

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• 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.

Teams

Valladolid
El Salvador

Ordizia

Gernika

La Vila

Cajasol Ciencas

Getxo

IVECO Vigo

Alcobendas

Santboiana

2011–12 División de Honor teams

Team	Stadium	Capacity	City/Area
VRAC Quesos Entrepinares	Pepe Rojo	5,000	Valladolid
AMPO Ordizia	Altamira	500	Ordizia, Gipuzkoa
Bizkaia Gernika	Urbieta	2,500	Guernica, Biscay
La Vila	El Pantano	1,550	Villajoyosa, Alicante
Cajasol Ciencias	Olímpico La Cartuja	5,000	Seville
Getxo Artea	Fadura	500	Getxo
Cetransa El Salvador	Pepe Rojo	5,000	Valladolid
IVECO Universidade Vigo	Lagoas-Marcosende	3,000	Vigo
Sanitas Alcobendas	Las Terrazas	500	Alcobendas, Community of Madrid
Santboiana SEAT	Baldiri Aleu	4,000	Sant Boi de Llobregat

Regular season standings

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Dif	TF	TA	Bonus	Pts
1	VRAC Quesos Entrepinares	18	15	0	3	589	374	215	74	44	11	71
2	AMPO Ordizia	18	13	1	4	543	384	159	66	46	11	65
3	Santboiana Seat	18	13	0	5	536	348	188	67	42	12	64
4	La Vila	18	10	2	6	450	442	8	54	48	9	53
5	Bizkaia Gernika	18	9	0	9	431	388	43	47	59	11	47
6	Getxo Artea	18	9	2	7	406	409	−3	56	47	7	47
7	Cetransa El Salvador	18	9	0	9	469	472	−3	62	62	9	45
8	Cajasol Ciencias	18	5	0	13	353	503	−150	49	65	11	31
9	Universidade de Vigo Iveco	18	2	0	16	353	543	−190	49	75	14	22
10	Sanitas Alcobendas	18	2	1	15	325	592	−267	44	80	8	18

Source: Federación Española de Rugby

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

Championship playoffs

Bracket

	Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Final
						1	VRAC Quesos Entrepinares	55
	3	Santboiana Seat	14			6	Bizkaia Gernika	25
	6	Bizkaia Gernika	18								1	VRAC Quesos Entrepinares	27
											2	AMPO Ordizia	10
						2	AMPO Ordizia	38
	4	La Vila	3			5	Getxo Artea	22
	5	Getxo Artea	33

2011–12 División de Honor winners
VRAC Quesos Entrepinares Third title

Quarter-finals

April 29, 2012	Santboiana SEAT	14 – 18	Bizkaia Gernika	Baldiri Aleu, Sant Boi de Llobregat
12:00 UTC+2	Try: Severino, 75' Pen: Palau, 4', 31', 62'	Report	Try: Olaeta, 13' Montagut, 34' Con: Swartbooi, 34' Pen: Swartbooi, 17', 80'	Referee: Jorge Molpeceres

April 29, 2012	La Vila	3 – 33	Getxo Artea	Municipal, Villajoyosa
12:30 UTC+2	Pen: Sorribes, 31'	Report	Try: Aboitiz, 71' Booiman, 74' Bentall, 80' Con: Linklater, 71', 80' Pen: Linklater, 6', 10', 21', 75'	Referee: Félix Villegas

Semifinals

May 5, 2012	VRAC Quesos Entrepinares	55 – 25	Getxo Artea	Pepe Rojo, Valladolid
18:00 UTC+2	Try: Newton, 4', 48' Rolls, 11' Montorfano, 19' Waenga, 29', 79' Nacho Gutiérrez, 69' Juan Carlos Pico, 71' Con: Waenga, 4', 11', 19', 48', 69' Juan Carlos Pico, 79' Pen: Waenga, 64'	Report	Try: Rodríguez, 40' Brooks, 54' Aboitz, 66' Con: Linklater, 54', 66' Pen: Linklater, 22', 25'	Referee: Sergio Figueruelo

May 6, 2012	AMPO Ordizia	38 – 22	Bizkaia Gernika	Altamira, Ordizia
12:30 UTC+2	Try: Goia, 3' Huxford, 8', 10', 32', 76' Kroll, 16' Con: Kroll, 8', 16' Simpson, 32', 76'	Report	Try: Ross, 21' Swartbooi, 23' García Parrado, 66' Con: Swartbooi, 21', 23' Pen: Swartbooi, 46'	Referee: Félix Villegas

Final

May 12, 2012	VRAC Quesos Entrepinares	27 – 10	AMPO Ordizia	Pepe Rojo, Valladolid
18:00 UTC+2	Try: Waenga, 24', 55' Nacho Gutiérrez, 32' Molina, 64' Álex Gutiérrez, 78' Con: Waenga, 32'	Report	Try: Huxford, 50' Con: Kroll, 50' Pen: Kroll, 5'	Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Steve Lee

Relegation playoff

	Relegation/promotion playoff
	3rd	Hernani	19	8
	10th	Sanitas Alcobendas	18	6

1st leg

April 22, 2012	Hernani	19 – 18	Sanitas Alcobendas	Landare Toki, Hernani
12:30 UTC+2	Try: Otaño, 55' Con: Genua, 55' Pen: Genua, 14', 35', 44', 49'	Report	Try: Montoliu, 4' Bermejo, 65' Con: Ati, 4', 65' Pen: Ati, 18', 28'

2nd leg

April 29, 2012	Sanitas Alcobendas	6 – 8	Hernani	Las Terrazas, Alcobendas
12:30 UTC+2	Pen: Ati, 18', 26'	Report	Try: Genua, 37' Pen: Genua, 9'

• Hernani promoted to División de Honor. Sanitas Alcobendas relegated to División de Honor B.

Scorers statistics [1]

By try points

Player	Try points	Team
Julen Goia	80	AMPO Ordizia
Josh Hamilton	75	IVECO Universidade Vigo
Ryan Le Roux	70	Santboiana Seat
Marcos Poggi	55	La Vila
Pablo Feijoo	50	Cetransa El Salvador
Glen Rolls	50	VRAC Quesos Entrepinares
Aníbal Bonan	45	VRAC Quesos Entrepinares
Jon Magunazelaia	40	Bizkaia Gernika
Santiago Fernández	40	Sanitas Alcobendas
Daniel Kroll	40	AMPO Ordizia

By total points

Player	Points	Team
Daniel Waenga	221	VRAC Quesos Entrepinares
Daniel Kroll	215	AMPO Ordizia
Isaac Thompson	187	Santboiana Seat
Brad Linklater	165	Getxo Artea
Josh Hamilton	163	IVECO Universidade Vigo
Pedro Rodríguez	147	Cetransa El Salvador
Marvin Swartbooi	147	Bizkaia Gernika
Santiago Fernández	126	Sanitas Alcobendas
Eduardo Sorribes	90	La Vila
Julen Goia	85	AMPO Ordizia

See also

• División de Honor B de Rugby

External links

• Official site