Current season or competition: 2024-25 Counties 3 Berks/Bucks & Oxon | |
| Sport | Rugby union |
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| Instituted | 2004; 22 years ago (2004) |
| Country |  England |
| Most titles | Bracknell III(3 titles) |
| Website | englandrugby.com |
Counties 3 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (formerly Berks, Bucks and Oxon Division 1) is an Englishrugby union league featuring teams fromBerkshire,Buckinghamshire andOxfordshire.
The division was created in 2004-05 as part of a complete overhaul of the Berks/Bucks & Oxon league, with a large number of 2nd, 3rd and 4th teams entering at various levels, and was divided into north and south regions, with the original Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 division becoming theBerks/Bucks & Oxon Premier and Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 becoming, in effect, division 2 of the system. Rather confusingly promoted 1st teams would go up into the Berks/Bucks & Oxon Premier while 2nd, 3rd and 4th teams would move intoBerks/Bucks & Oxon Premier A.
The league would be restructured further in 2011-12 with the re-introduction of a new tier 2 competition - theBerks/Bucks & Oxon Championship and the cancellation ofBerks/Bucks & Oxon Premier A. This meant that Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 (now merged into one league instead of two regional ones) would be for lower teams and below only with no chance of promotion to a higher league (although relegation was still possible).
Following theRFU Adult Competition Review the structure changed once more with reserve teams and first teams competing in the same leagues, the competition administered centrally rather than by county constituent bodies and a North / South divisional split. Promotion is toCounties 2 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (North) orCounties 2 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (South) depending on location. Relegation is toCounties 4 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (North) orCounties 4 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (South) again depending on location.
Departing wereBanbury II (champions) and Risborough (runners-up) promoted toCounties 2 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (North) andCounties 2 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (South) respectively. Also leaving were Wallingford II on a level transfer to the South division.
|  Locations of the 2025-26 Counties 3 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (North) teams in Oxfordshire & Gloucestershire
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Departing wereHenley III (champions),Bracknell III (runners-up) andReading II (4th) all promoted toCounties 2 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (South).
| Locations of the 2025-26 Counties 3 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (South) teams in Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Locations of the 2025-26 Counties 3 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (South) teams in Berkshire
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Departing were Faringdon, promoted toCounties 2 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (North). Abingdon II (8th) andBanbury III (10th) were relegated toCounties 4 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (North).
Aylesbury II (2nd in 2023-24) were initially placed in the league but withdrew, their place taken by Oxford II.
| Locations of the 2024-25 Counties 3 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (North) teams in Oxfordshire & Gloucestershire Locations of the 2024-25 Counties 3 Berks/Bucks & Oxon teams (North) in Buckinghamshire
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Departing wereAmersham & Chiltern II (champions) andMarlow II (3rd) promoted toCounties 2 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (South).Henley III finished as runners-up but could not be promoted into a league already featuringHenley II. Tadley II (10th) were relegated toCounties 4 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (South).
| Locations of the 2024-25 Counties 3 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (South) teams in Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Locations of the 2024-25 Counties 3 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (South) teams in Berkshire
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Departing wereOxford Harlequins III, promoted toCounties 2 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (North). Grove II (9th) and Didcot II (10th) were relegated.
| Locations of the 2023-24 Counties 3 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (North) teams in Oxfordshire & Gloucestershire Locations of the 2023-24 Counties 3 Berks/Bucks & Oxon teams (North) in Buckinghamshire
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Departing were Crowthorne promoted toCounties 2 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (South) having finished as runners-up to championsRams IV who did not return for the campaign and returned to their local merit league. Also leaving wereReading Abbey II (8th) andHigh Wycombe II (9th), both relegated.
| Locations of the 2023-24 Counties 3 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (South) teams in Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Locations of the 2023-24 Counties 3 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (South) teams in Berkshire
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This was the first season following theRFU Adult Competition Review.
| Locations of the 2022-23 Counties 3 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (North) teams in Oxfordshire Locations of the 2022-23 Counties 3 Berks/Bucks & Oxon teams (North) in Buckinghamshire
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| Locations of the 2022-23 Counties 3 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (South) teams in Buckinghamshire Locations of the 2022-23 Counties 3 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (South) teams in Berkshire
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Contested (2020-21 aside) but not as an RFU administered league.
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| Season | No of Teams | Champions | Runners–up | Relegated Teams | League Name | |||||||||
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| 2004-05[2] | 10 | Witney II[n 1] | Aylesbury II,Olney 2nd XV (also promoted) | Bicester II,Winslow | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 North | |||||||||
| 2005-06[3] | 10 | Chinnor III[n 2] | Aylesbury Athletic | Banbury II,Bletchley II | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 North | |||||||||
| 2006-07[4] | 11 | Bletchley II[n 3] | Aylesbury Athletic | Bicester II | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 North | |||||||||
| 2007-08[5] | 11 | Milton Keynes 2nd XV[n 4] | Amersham & Chiltern II[n 5] | Gosford All Blacks II | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 North | |||||||||
| 2008-09[6] | 10 | Bicester II[n 6] | Aylesbury Athletic | Buckingham III,Bletchley II | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 North | |||||||||
| 2009-10[7] | 10 | Amersham & Chiltern III | Oxford Harlequins III | Chinnor IV,Banbury II | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 North | |||||||||
| 2010-11[8] | 10 | Beaconsfield II[n 7] | Risborough[n 8] | No relegation | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 North[n 9] | |||||||||
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| Season | No of Teams | Champions | Runners–up | Relegated Teams | League Name | |||||||||
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| 2004-05[9] | 10 | Newbury Stags[n 1] | Swindon College Old Boys | Aldermaston | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 South | |||||||||
| 2005-06[10] | 12 | Crowthorne[n 2] | Abingdon | Newbury IV,Phoenix II | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 South | |||||||||
| 2006-07[11] | 11 | Bracknell III[n 3] | Farnham Royal[n 4] | Aldermaston | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 South | |||||||||
| 2007-08[12] | 11 | Wallingford II[n 5] | Maidenhead III | Slough II | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 South | |||||||||
| 2008-09[13] | 10 | Maidenhead III[n 6] | Thatcham[n 7] | Didcot | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 South | |||||||||
| 2009-10[14] | 11 | Henley III[n 8] | Hungerford[n 9] | Aldermaston,Berkshire Shire Hall | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 South | |||||||||
| 2010-11[15] | 11 | Bracknell III[n 10] | Tadley II[n 11] | No relegation | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 South[n 12] | |||||||||
| Green backgrounds are promotion places. | ||||||||||||||
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| Season | No of Teams | Champions | Runners–up | Relegated Teams | League Name | |||||||||
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| 2011-12[16] | 11 | Witney II | Henley III | Wallingford II,Reading Abbey II | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 | |||||||||
| 2012-13[17] | 11 | Bracknell III | Windsor II | High Wycombe II | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 | |||||||||
| 2013-14[18] | 11 | Amersham & Chiltern II | Windsor II | Marlow II,Beaconsfield II | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 | |||||||||
| 2014-15[19] | 11 | Bracknell II | Witney II | Buckingham II,Windsor II | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 | |||||||||
| 2015-16[20] | 11 | Bracknell II | Chinnor III | Oxford Harlequins II,Henley III | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 | |||||||||
| 2016-17[21] | 11 | Chinnor III | Maidenhead II | Thatcham II,Reading II | Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 | |||||||||
| 2017-18 | 11 | |||||||||||||
| Green backgrounds are promotion places. | ||||||||||||||
