2014 Championship 1

2014 Championship 1
LeagueChampionship 1
Duration20 matches
Teams9
2014 Season
ChampionsHunslet Hawks
League LeadersYork City Knights

The 2014 Championship 1, known as the Kingstone Press Championship 1 for sponsorship reasons, was a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in England, the third tier of the sport in the country.

One team will be promoted from Championship 1, due to the restructure of Super League and the Championship, The top five sides will contest the play-offs the winner will be promoted. There is no relegation from this league as it is the lowest tier of professional rugby league.

The only cup competition the teams will compete in is the 2014 Challenge Cup after the Northern Rail Cup was scrapped for 2014.

2014 structure

The competition features the seven teams that did not win promotion at the end of 2012 Championship 1: Gateshead Thunder, Gloucestershire All Golds, Hemel Stags, London Skolars, Oldham, Oxford Rugby League and South Wales Scorpions. The two new teams to the division for 2014 are Hunslet Hawks and York City Knights, who were relegated from the RFL Championship.

Team & current season 2013 Position Stadium Capacity Location
Gateshead Thunder 7th Thunderdome 11,800 Gateshead, Tyne and Wear
Gloucestershire All Golds 9th Prince of Wales Stadium 480 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Hemel Stags 5th Pennine Way 2,000 Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Hunslet Hawks 13th (Championship) South Leeds Stadium 4,000 Hunslet, West Yorkshire
London Skolars 4th New River Stadium (March to May)
Queen Elizabeth II Stadium (May to August) 		5,000
2,500 		Haringey, London
Enfield, London
Oldham 2nd Whitebank Stadium 1,500 (temporary capacity) Limeside, Oldham, Greater Manchester
Oxford RLFC 6th Iffley Road 500 Oxford, Oxfordshire
South Wales Scorpions 8th Llynfi Road 6,000 Maesteg, Bridgend, Wales
York City Knights 14th (Championship) Huntington Stadium 3,428 York, North Yorkshire

Season table

2014 Championship 1
Pos Team Pld W L D PF PA PD Bns Pts
1 York City Knights 19 16 3 0 700 339 +361 3 51
2 Hunslet Hawks 19 14 5 0 666 243 +423 4 46
3 Oldham 19 14 4 1 607 433 +174 1 45
4 Gateshead Thunder 20 11 9 0 615 576 +39 3 36
5 Hemel Stags 19 8 10 1 460 499 -39 5 31
6 Gloucestershire All Golds 19 8 11 0 422 548 -126 5 29
7 London Skolars 19 5 14 0 443 609 -166 8 23
8 Oxford RLFC 19 7 12 0 471 657 -186 1 22
9 South Wales Scorpions 19 2 17 0 298 778 -480 4 10
  Teams qualifying for promotion
  Teams qualifying for play-offs


This table is correct as of 01 September 2014. Source: rugbyleaguechampionships.co.uk and BBC Sport.

Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference.

Competition points: For win = 3; For draw = 2; For loss by 12 points or fewer = 1[1].
(P) - Promoted, (Pl) - Qualified for Playoffs

Season results

Main article: 2014 Championship 1 season results

The regular league season sees the 9 teams play each other twice (one home, one away) over 18 matches.[2] At the end of the season, five teams will contest a playoff for a place in the new Championship structure. Five clubs will be relegated to the Championship 1 from the Championship.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Points System". Rugby League Championships. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  2. ^ "Competition Structure". Rugby League Championships. Archived from the original on 4 February 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  3. ^ Rimmer, Ralph. "Five clubs to be relegated from the Rugby League Championship _ Sky Sports".