2014 Championship 1

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2014 Championship 1
League Championship 1
Duration20 matches
Teams9
2014 Season
Champions Hunslet Hawks
League Leaders York 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.

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

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

2014 structure

The competition featured 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 were Hunslet Hawks and York City Knights, who were relegated from the RFL Championship.

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

Season table

2014 Championship 1
PosTeamPldWLDPFPAPDBPPtsQualification
1 Yorkcolours.svg York City Knights 201730738367+371354Qualified for play-offs
2 Hunsletcolours.svg Hunslet Hawks 201550716249+467449Qualified for promotion
3 Oldhamcolours.svg Oldham 201541675457+218148Qualified for play-offs
4 Gthundercolours.svg Gateshead Thunder 201190615576+39336
5 Hemelcolours.png Hemel Stags 208102482521−39533
6 Gloucestershirecolours.png Gloucestershire All Golds 208120446616−170529
7 Skolscolours.svg London Skolars 205150471647−176924
8 Oxfordcolours.png Oxford RLFC 207121493679−186124
9 Scorpions.png South Wales Scorpions 202180304828−524410
Source: rugbyleaguechampionships.co.uk and Rugby League Project.
Rules for 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]

Season results

The regular league season was played over 24 rounds. Each of the nine teams played each other twice (one home, one away), played four additional matches, and had four byes. [2] At the end of the season, five teams contested a playoff for a place in the new Championship structure. Five clubs were relegated to the Championship 1 from the Championship. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Points System". Rugby League Championships. Archived from the original on 30 March 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "Competition Structure". Rugby League Championships. Archived from the original on 8 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "Five clubs to be relegated from the Rugby League Championship". Sky Sports. Archived from the original on 11 February 2014.
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