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The 2012 County Championship season, known as the LV= County Championship for sponsorship reasons,^[1] was the 113th cricket County Championship season. Warwickshire won their seventh County Championship title. It was contested through two divisions: Division One and Division Two. Each team plays all the others in their division both home and away. The top two teams from Division Two (Derbyshire and Yorkshire) were promoted to the first division for the 2013 season, while the bottom two sides from Division One (Worcestershire and defending champions Lancashire) were relegated.

Derbyshire

Durham

Essex

Glamorgan

Gloucestershire

Hampshire

Kent

Lancashire

Leicestershire

Middlesex

Northampton

Nottinghamshire

Somerset

Surrey

Sussex

Warwickshire

Worcestershire

Yorkshire

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Home grounds of each County

Teams

Division One

  Team promoted from Division Two

Team	Primary home ground	Other grounds	Coach	Captain	Overseas player(s)
Durham	Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street	—	Geoff Cook	Phil Mustard (Apr-Jul) Paul Collingwood (Jul-Sep)	—
Lancashire	Old Trafford, Manchester	Aigburth, Liverpool	Peter Moores	Glen Chapple	Ashwell Prince
Middlesex	Lord's, London	Uxbridge Cricket Club Ground, Uxbridge	Richard Scott	Neil Dexter (Apr) Chris Rogers (Apr-Sep)	Chris Rogers
Nottinghamshire	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	—	Mick Newell	Chris Read	Adam Voges (May-Sep)
Somerset	County Ground, Taunton	—	Andy Hurry	Marcus Trescothick	Vernon Philander (Apr-May) Abdur Rehman (Aug-Sep)
Surrey	The Oval, London	Woodbridge Road, Guildford	Chris Adams	Rory Hamilton-Brown (Apr-Aug) Gareth Batty (Aug-Sep)	Jacques Rudolph (Apr-May) Murali Kartik (Jun-Sep)
Sussex	County Ground, Hove	Arundel Castle Cricket Club Ground, Arundel Cricket Field Road Ground, Horsham	Mark Robinson	Michael Yardy (Apr-Jul) Ed Joyce (Jul-Sep)	Steve Magoffin
Warwickshire	Edgbaston, Birmingham	—	Ashley Giles	Jim Troughton	Jeetan Patel
Worcestershire	County Ground, New Road, Worcester	—	Steve Rhodes	Daryl Mitchell	Michael Klinger (Apr-May) Phillip Hughes (May-Sep)

Division Two

  Team relegated from Division One

Team	Primary home ground	Other grounds	Coach	Captain	Overseas player(s)
Derbyshire	County Ground, Derby	Queen's Park, Chesterfield	Karl Krikken	Wayne Madsen	Martin Guptill (Apr-Jun) Usman Khawaja (Jun-Sep)
Essex	County Ground, Chelmsford	Castle Park Cricket Ground, Colchester	Paul Grayson	James Foster	Alviro Petersen (Apr-Jun) Harbhajan Singh (Jul-Aug)
Glamorgan	SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff	Penrhyn Avenue, Rhos-on-Sea St Helen's, Swansea	Matthew Mott	Mark Wallace	Moisés Henriques (Apr-May) Marcus North (May-Aug)
Gloucestershire	County Ground, Bristol	College Ground, Cheltenham	John Bracewell	Alex Gidman	Kane Williamson (Apr-Jun) Ed Cowan (Jul/Sep) Rob Nicol (Aug)
Hampshire	The Rose Bowl, Southampton	—	Giles White	Jimmy Adams	Simon Katich
Kent	St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury	Nevill Ground, Tunbridge Wells	Jimmy Adams	Robert Key	Brendan Nash
Leicestershire	Grace Road, Leicester	—	Phil Whitticase	Matthew Hoggard	Ramnaresh Sarwan
Northamptonshire	County Ground, Northampton	—	David Ripley	Andrew Hall	Chaminda Vaas
Yorkshire	Headingley, Leeds	North Marine Road Ground, Scarborough	Jason Gillespie	Andrew Gale	Mitchell Starc

Standings

• Pld = Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, D = Draws, T = Ties, A = Abandonments, Bat = Batting points, Bowl = Bowling points, Ded = Deducted points, Pts = Points.

Teams receive 16 points for a win and 3 for a draw. Bonus points (a maximum of 5 batting points and 3 bowling points) may be scored during the first 110 overs of each team's first innings.^[2]