2014 RFL Championship season results

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This is a list of the 2014 RFL Championship season results. The Championship is the second-tier rugby league competition in the United Kingdom. The 2014 season started on 16 February and ends on 5 October with the Grand Final at a venue to be announced. [1] 2014 is the second and final season to consist of a 14-team division, with the league being reduced to 12 teams in 2015 as part of the Rugby Football League's reform of the leagues.

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The 2014 season consists of two stages. The regular season was played over 26 round-robin fixtures, in which each of the fourteen teams involved in the competition played each other once at home and once away. In the Championship, a win was worth three points in the table, a draw worth two points apiece, and a loss by less than 12 points during the game earned one bonus point. Defeats by more than 12 points yielded no points.

The Championship will be decided through the second stage of the season, the play-offs, which has been re-structured following the expansion. The play-offs now adopts the 8-team play-off, similar to what is used in the Super League with the top eight teams in the table contest to play in the Grand Final, the winners of which will be crowned champions. A decision whether to use the club-call system, as used in Super League, will be taken during the regular season. [2]

Regular season

Round 1

HomeScoreAwayMatch Information
Date and TimeVenueRefereeAttendance
NWCrucolours.png North Wales Crusaders 34 – 16 Barrowcolours.svg Barrow Raiders 16 February, 14:30 GMT Racecourse Ground Gareth Hewer1,118
Ramscolours.svg Dewsbury Rams 11 – 10 Fevcolours.svg Featherstone Rovers 16 February, 15:00 GMT Tetley's Stadium Chris Leatherbarrow2,096
Faxcolours.svg Halifax 28 – 18 Swintoncolours.svg Swinton Lions 16 February, 15:00 GMT The Shay Joe Cobb1,750
Cougscolours.svg Keighley Cougars 36 – 14 Haven colours.svg Whitehaven 16 February, 15:00 GMT Cougar Park George Stokes1,061
Leigh colours.svg Leigh Centurions 52 – 12 Batley colours.svg Batley Bulldogs 16 February, 15:00 GMT Leigh Sports Village Matt Thomason
Sheffeagles colours.svg Sheffield Eagles P – P Rochdale colours.svg Rochdale Hornets TBA A Owlerton Stadium
Workingtoncolours.svg Workington Town 12 – 22 Doncaster colours.svg Doncaster 16 February, 15:00 GMT Derwent Park Jamie Bloem895
Source: [3] [4]

Round 2

HomeScoreAwayMatch Information
Date and TimeVenueRefereeAttendance
Barrowcolours.svg Barrow Raiders 8 – 52 Leigh colours.svg Leigh Centurions 23 February, 14:00 GMT Craven Park C Leatherbarrow1,252
Batley colours.svg Batley Bulldogs – Cougscolours.svg Keighley Cougars 23 February, 14:00 GMT Mount Pleasant
Doncaster colours.svg Doncaster 30 – 12 Cougscolours.svg Keighley Cougars 23 February, 15:00 GMT Keepmoat Stadium G Hewer647
Fevcolours.svg Featherstone Rovers 28 – 20 Faxcolours.svg Halifax 23 February, 15:00 GMT Bigfellas Stadium M Thomason2,583
Hunsletcolours.svg Rochdale Hornets 12 – 42 Ramscolours.svg Dewsbury Rams 23 February, 15:00 GMT Spotland Stadium J Bloem817
Swintoncolours.svg Swinton Lions 16 – 30 Sheffeagles colours.svg Workington Town 23 February, 15:00 GMT Leigh Sports Village W Turley548
Haven colours.svg Whitehaven – NWCrucolours.png North Wales Crusaders 27 April, 15:00 GMT Recreation Ground
Source: [5] [6]

Notes

A. ^ Game postponed due to waterlogged pitch [7]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Championships Competition Structure". Rugby League Championship. Archived from the original on 4 February 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
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  4. ↑ "Results". Rugby League Championship. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
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  7. ↑ "EAGLES VS HORNETS - POSTPONED". Sheffield Eagles. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
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