The league champions were Bracknell who won the title by five points and gained promotion to the 2001–02 National Division One.

[3] At the other end of the table West Hartlepool, Lydney and Camberley would be the unfortunate teams to be relegated.

[3] West Hartlepool were easily the worse team in the division, failing to win a single game all season and suffering their second successive relegation in a row (part of a slide that would see them drop out of the national league system into regional rugby) while Lydney went down having only played 22 games due to fixture congestion/cancellations – although even if the Gloucestershire-based side won these remaining fixtures it would not have been enough to keep them up.

have used scores from the England Rugby website to ensure that they are accurate with reports from Statbunker primarily used to show scorers, attendances and referees were relevant.

Statbunker scores are consistent with rest of sources from 16 December 2000 onwards.