Leeds Tykes returned to the Guinness Premiership at the first attempt finishing five points clear of second placed Earth Titans.

Full back Leigh Hinton was the top points score for the club and in the division with 302 points. He became the second Leeds player to top 300 league points in a season after Sateki Tuipulotu who scored 322 back in 1997-98.

Richard Welding ended the season as the leading try scorer with 15, the best return by a Leeds player since Graham Mackay scored 19 in 2000/01 season when they won the same National One league title. 

They started the season with a defeat at home to London Welsh but 13 wins in their next 14 matches saw they go top of the table. In the New Year they put together a 10 match winning run to keep ahead of the chasing sides and clichéd the title at Otley on the 7th April with a 42-12 win.   

Earth Titans finished in second place a two place improvement on the previous season which is the worst place to finish in the division. They will have the satisfaction of doing the double over the Champions.

South African fly half Gareth Steenson finished as the leading points scorer with 265 points which equalled the club record set by Ramirez Pez back in 2002/03. He did break the record of conversions in a season with 79, 19 more than Pez’s previous record.   

Winger Brian Tuohy led the way in the try scoring stakes with 16 in his first season at the club.

Three home defeats against Cornish Pirates, Exeter Chiefs and Doncaster Knights proved costly for the Titans. 

Doncaster Knights in their second season of National One rugby improved dramatically by seven places to finish in third place. Mark Woodrow was the leading points scorer with 197 points in his debut season for the club. Flanker Jason Forster finished as the leading try scorer with 25, second in the division, to set a new club record by one beating the record of another flanker Derek Eves and winger Chris Conway from back in 2001/02.

From the end of October till the turn of the year they put together a great 10 match wining run and topped the table on a couple of occasions.

They used just 31 players (plus 7 as replacements only) all season with scrum half Ben Jones making 28 starts on his debut season for the club.

Exeter Chiefs finished in fourth place after a great second half to the season. 

After just five wins and a draw in their opening 12 matches the Chiefs lost just twice in their next 18 league matches including a run of nine successive wins to climb the table dramatically.

Tony Yapp with 280 points topped the points scorers for a fifth consecutive season with his third highest season total. He took his Chiefs career total to 1392 and extended his record for conversions to 304.

Winger Jason Luff topped the try scoring list with 16 which equalled the club record set by Richard Baxter in the 2001/02 season. 

Winger Alistair Murdoch equalled the club record of four tries in a match in the win against Sedgley Park on the final day of the season.

Cornish Pirates slipped down to fifth place after finishing third the season before.

The Prates made a good start to the season with 11 wins in their opening 14 matches but finished the season poorly with one win in a six match run which saw them drop down the table.

Argentine Alberto Di Bernardo finished top of the points scorers list with 293 points, the three best total for the Pirates in league rugby behind Nat Saumi who has twice topped the 300 mark with 374 and 336. He set a new total for penalties in a season with 56, 17 more than Nat Saumi scored in a season twice before.

Winger Rhodri McAtee was leading try scorer with 16 tries the best total for five years since Victor Olongo ran in 19 in 2002/03.

Plymouth Albion finished in sixth place as they dropped a place from the previous season.

Dutch International Wihan Neethling was the clubs leading points scorer with 162 points despite missing a large part of the season with injury.

Their French winger Nicholas Sestaret set a new record for tries in a season for Plymouth Albion and in a Division One season with 28. That was five more than Dan Ward Smith’s and Lee Robinson’s record dating back to 2001/02 and 2003/04 respectively scored for Albion and two more than the Divisions record set by Duncan Roke in 2002/03.  He also set a new record for tries in a match with five against Moseley at the end of March at Brickfields.

Flanker Danny Thomas now holds the record for league appearances for the club with 174 ten more than Richard Thompson’s previous record. 

Bedford Blues finished in seventh place in National One after seven wins in their last ten matches of the season dropping five places in the league table.

After a bright start to the season they went on a run of five defeats in eight matches which saw them drop down the table. James Pritchard topped the scoring for a third season at Goldington Road but the first time in four seasons. He now tops the all time scoring list for the Blues with 894 points passing Andy Finnie’s record of 867.

He also topped the try scoring list with 12 tries which equalled his best from 2002/03. He now also holds the all time club record for conversions with 151.

Prop Matt Volland became the first Blues forward to rack up over 100 league appearances and ended the season on 105 (26).

Pertemps Bees finished in eighth place three points clear of Nottingham and a six place improvement on the previous season when they finished bottom of the table but were saved form relegation with the league being re organised.

Jonathan Higgins in his first season art the club was the leading points scorer with 140 after a summer move form Coventry.

Fijian Akapusi Qera was the leading try scorer with 16 and after some outstanding performance was snapped up by Gloucester for the Premiership for the coming season.

Winger Matthew Nuthall had a great first season for the club with 14 and 108 points from his 29 league appearances.      

Nottingham drop two places on last season as they look forward to a fourth successive season in National One. They made a poor start to the season with just one win in their first seven matches of the season.

Fly half Tom Barlow led the way with 230 points this highest total for four seasons at the club.

In that total were a club record 61 conversions, 25 more than the previous record set by Russell Southam back in 2000/01.

The leading try scorer was winger Rohan Nirmalendran with nine, the lowest total to lead the list since Russell Southam managed six in 2001/02 

Coventry slipped four places in the National One league table and some eight points behind Nottingham.   

Ben Russell in his first season at the club was the leading points scorer with 217 out of the clubs 593.

George Dixon was the leading try scorer for the club with nine tries in his debut season for the club.

Winger Kurt Johnson added to his club all time try scoring record with eight more and now has 92 tries since making his debut in 1999. He also extended his club record for appearances by a back and now has 164 (10).

Newbury finished 11th for the second successive season in National One since they were promoted to the division. Mid season they went on a poor run with just one win in eight matches.

Tim Walsh, a summer signing for Pertemps Bees, was the leading scorer for the club with 217 points.

The title of leading try scorer went to two players as Full back Mal Roberts and winger Martin Nutt finished with 13 each. 

Roberts took over as the clubs leading points scorer as he passed Nick Grecian’s long standing record of 563 and finished the season on 592.

He also passed winger Tom Holloway’s record for appearances by a back of 131 finishing the season on 140 (27).

They conceded a record 57 points at home to Earth Titans in the final game of the season four more than the previous record set by Bracknell in April 2001.  

London Welsh finished 12th in National One for a third consecutive season. During the middle of the season they suffered a club record equalling record nine successive defeats. 

Full back Sam Ulph ended his first season at the Welsh as the leading points scorer with 225, the best return in a season since Craig Raymond scored 264 points in 1997-98.

Ulph also ended the season as the leading try scorer with six along with hooker Chris Ritchie in his final season at Old Deer Park.

Sedgley Park made a dreadful start to the season but still managed to turn it round and climb up the table to finish 13th and 21 points clear of the relegation zone.

It was the second season running they had finished 13th after finishing 11th in their first season in National One.

They started the season with nine successive defeats which was a new club record.

Former England A International Phil Jones topped the scoring list for the club with 274 for the second season running and took his career total to 493.

Jones also topped the try scoring list with 12 tries.  

Jones is now the all time record holder for penalty goals with 83 in the last two seasons.

Second row Tim Fourie now has the record for most appearances by a forward with 159 (9).

Early in the season they suffered their worst ever defeat in terms of both biggest home defeat and highest score against going down 48-6 to Doncaster.

Moseley finished in 14th place six points clear of the relegation zone and survived for a second season of National One rugby after winning National Two the previous season.

Fly half Ollie Thomas was instrumental in their survival with an impressive 285 points, his second best return in a season for the club. That took his club all time record passed the 1,000 mark as he end the season on 1,007.  He extended his club record for conversions, penalty goal and drop goals to 155, 204 and 10 respectively.

In the win over Nottingham late in the season he set a new club record of 28 points in a match.

Nathan Bressington was the leading try scorer for a third successive season as he increased his all time record for the club to 44 in three seasons.

Otley finished 15th and were relegated after seven successive seasons in the division. They dropped into the bottom two just a week before the end of the season as Moseley overhauled them.

During the season they suffered two eight match losing streaks which was a new club record for successive defeats. 

Fly half Simon Binns topped the points scoring list for the sixth consecutive season with just 108 points his lowest ever return in those six seasons.

Danny Smith in his debut season for the club was the leading try scorer with 11 tries.   

Waterloo finished bottom of the table and were relegated on their return to National One after a six season gap. They managed just three wins all season but two of them were strange results beating the Cornish Pirates at Blundellsands and Exeter Chiefs away form home.

Full back Dan Loader was the leading scorer with just 60 points in his debut season at the club.

Centre Freeman Payne ended the season as the leading try scorer with nine tries and extended his all time club record to 83.

Tony Handley extended his club record points total to 918 and his appearance record to 239 (8) early in the season before turning out for Birkenhead Park in North One.