Kinstone Press Championship 2013 | |
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League | Championship |
Duration | 26 Rounds (Followed by 4 round playoffs) |
Teams | 14 |
Highest attendance | 3,890 Featherstone Rovers v Sheffield Eagles (28 August 2013) |
Lowest attendance | 375 Hunslet Hawks v Whitehaven (10 March 2013) |
Average attendance | 1,199 |
Attendance | 187,103 |
Broadcast partners | ![]() |
2013 Season | |
Grand Final winners | ![]() |
League Leaders Shield | ![]() |
Runners-up | ![]() |
Top point-scorer(s) | ![]() |
Top try-scorer(s) | ![]() |
Promotion and relegation | |
Relegated to Championship 1 | ![]() ![]() |
The 2013 Rugby Football League Championship, which will be known as Kingstone Press Championship due to sponsorship by Kingstone Press Cider, is a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in the UK, one tier below the first tier Super League. The 2013 season is the first season to consist of a 14-team division. This was achieved by scrapping relegation for the 2012 season and having four teams promoted from the Championship 1. [2]
Relegation to Championship 1 is restored for the 2013 but as in previous years, there is no automatic promotion from this league to Super League, which uses a licensing system renewed every three years. Qualifying for the Grand Final or winning the Northern Rail Cup is a prerequisite for Championship clubs to be able to apply for a licence in the next round of applications for the 2015–17 seasons.
All of the teams in the 2013 Co-operative Championship will also compete in the 2013 Challenge Cup where they will enter in the third round. All of the teams will also compete in the 2013 National League Cup which starts before the Co-operative Championship with the finals held mid season.
This year's competition features the same 10 teams as it did in 2012 plus the top four teams from the 2012 Championship 1 season, which are Barrow Raiders, Doncaster, Whitehaven and Workington Town.
Legend | |
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Reigning champions | |
Defending Northern Rail Cup Champions | |
Promoted |
Team & Current Season | Stadium | Capacity | Location | |
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![]() | Craven Park | 7,600 | Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria | |
![]() | loverugbyleague.com Stadium | 6,000 | Batley, West Yorkshire | |
![]() | Tetley's Stadium | 3,500 | Dewsbury, West Yorkshire | |
![]() | Keepmoat Stadium | 15,231 | Doncaster, South Yorkshire | |
![]() | Bigfellas Stadium | 6,750 | Featherstone, West Yorkshire | |
![]() | The Shay Stadium | 6,561 | Halifax, West Yorkshire | |
![]() | South Leeds Stadium | 4,000 | Leeds, West Yorkshire | |
![]() | Cougar Park | 7,800 | Keighley, West Yorkshire | |
![]() | Leigh Sports Village | 12,700 | Leigh, Greater Manchester | |
![]() | Bramall Lane | 32,702 | Sheffield, South Yorkshire | |
![]() | Leigh Sports Village | 12,700 | Leigh, Greater Manchester | |
![]() | Recreation Ground | 7,500 | Whitehaven, Cumbria | |
![]() | Derwent Park | 10,000 | Workington, Cumbria | |
![]() | Huntington Stadium | 3,428 | York, North Yorkshire |
2013 RFL Championship | ||||||||||
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# | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Bns | Pts |
1 | ![]() | 26 | 22 | 0 | 4 | 940 | 362 | +578 | 4 | 70 |
2 | ![]() | 26 | 22 | 0 | 4 | 806 | 474 | +332 | 1 | 67 |
3 | ![]() | 26 | 19 | 2 | 5 | 817 | 476 | +341 | 1 | 62 |
4 | ![]() | 26 | 18 | 0 | 8 | 752 | 495 | +257 | 4 | 58 |
5 | ![]() | 26 | 16 | 1 | 9 | 670 | 394 | +276 | 7 | 57 |
6 | ![]() | 26 | 12 | 1 | 13 | 593 | 594 | -1 | 6 | 43 |
7 | ![]() | 26 | 12 | 0 | 14 | 492 | 620 | -128 | 6 | 42 |
8 | ![]() | 26 | 11 | 0 | 15 | 483 | 681 | -198 | 6 | 39 |
9 | ![]() | 26 | 11 | 0 | 15 | 485 | 774 | -289 | 4 | 37 |
10 | ![]() | 26 | 9 | 0 | 17 | 516 | 738 | -222 | 7 | 34 |
11 | ![]() | 26 | 8 | 0 | 18 | 492 | 719 | -227 | 9 | 33 |
12 | ![]() | 26 | 8 | 0 | 18 | 482 | 792 | -310 | 9 | 33 |
13 | ![]() | 26 | 6 | 0 | 20 | 529 | 704 | -175 | 12 | 30 |
14 | ![]() | 26 | 6 | 0 | 20 | 493 | 727 | -234 | 8 | 26 |
Teams qualifying for the Play-offs | |
Teams in relegation position |
Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference.
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