East Midlands 2 was a tier 10 English Rugby Union league with teams from Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and parts of Cambridgeshire taking part.

Promoted teams moved up to East Midlands 1 and relegated teams dropped to East Midlands 3 until that division was cancelled at the end of the 1991–92 season.

Restructuring of the East Midlands leagues at the end of the 2003–04 campaign meant that East Midlands 2 was discontinued and the majority of teams transferred into the new East Midlands/South Leicestershire 2 division.

When league rugby began in 1987, this division contained the following teams: The original East Midlands 2 was a tier 9 league.

After a gap of seven years East Midlands 2 was reintroduced ahead of the 2000–01 season as a tier 10 league.