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  1. Championship season to start in March

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    The 2020-21 Championship season will commence on 6 March following loan assurances to clubs over the government's Winter Sports Survival Package.

    Eleven of the 12 clubs - except for London Scottish - have elected to invest in Covid testing to allow the season to start.

    Scottish will be allowed to compete again at second-tier level in 2021-22.

    Five-times Premiership champions Saracens, relegated over financial wrongdoing, start at Cornish Pirates, while Coventry are at home to Bedford Blues.

    The 11 teams will each play 10 matches, either home or away, before the top two contest a two-leg play-off final to determine who goes up to the Premiership for 2021-22, "subject to meeting the current minimum standards criteria".

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