2015 Championship 1 | |
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League | Championship 1 |
Duration | 22 matches |
Teams | 14 |
Highest attendance | 4,066![]() ![]() |
Lowest attendance | 115 ![]() ![]() |
2015 Season | |
Champions | ![]() |
Promotion Playoff Winner | ![]() |
The 2015 Championship 1, known as the Kingstone Press League 1 for sponsorship reasons, was a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in England, the third tier of the sport in the country.
The 2015 Championship 1 will feature fourteen teams, who will all play each other once; Each team will then play nine other teams again, based on a geographical basis, totaling 22 games. Two teams will be promoted from Championship 1, due to the restructure of Super League, Championship and Championship 1. After the 22 regular season games, the top two sides will face each other and the winner will be automatically be promoted to the Kingstone Press Championship as champions, while the loser and the teams finishing 3rd, 4th and 5th will contest the play-offs and the winner will also be promoted. There is no relegation from this league as it is the lowest tier of professional rugby league.
The competition features the eight teams that did not win promotion in 2014: Gloucestershire All Golds, Hemel Stags, London Skolars, Newcastle Thunder, Oldham R.L.F.C., Oxford RLFC, South Wales Scorpions and York City Knights. It will also feature five teams relegated from the RFL Championship: Barrow Raiders, Keighley Cougars, North Wales Crusaders, Rochdale Hornets and Swinton Lions. Coventry Bears were also accepted into the division, creating a fourteen-team division.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | PF | PA | PD | Pts | |
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1 | ![]() | 22 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 840 | 362 | +478 | 38 | |
2 | ![]() | 22 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 759 | 400 | +359 | 36 | |
3 | ![]() | 22 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 899 | 402 | +497 | 33 | |
4 | ![]() | 22 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 816 | 382 | +434 | 32 | |
5 | ![]() | 22 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 677 | 391 | +286 | 29 | |
6 | ![]() | 22 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 731 | 459 | +272 | 28 | |
7 | ![]() | 22 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 661 | 423 | +238 | 28 | |
8 | ![]() | 22 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 555 | 552 | +3 | 22 | |
9 | ![]() | 22 | 8 | 14 | 0 | 562 | 677 | -115 | 16 | |
10 | ![]() | 22 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 453 | 948 | -495 | 14 | |
11 | ![]() | 22 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 388 | 671 | -283 | 10 | |
12 | ![]() | 22 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 430 | 755 | -325 | 10 | |
13 | ![]() | 22 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 422 | 903 | -481 | 8 | |
14 | ![]() | 22 | 1 | 21 | 0 | 274 | 1122 | -848 | 2 |
Teams who won promotion. | |
Teams qualifying for play-offs. |
This table is correct as of 14 September 2015 (season complete). Source: rugbyleaguechampionships.co.uk and BBC Sport.
Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: For win = 2; For draw = 1
(C) - Champions (and promoted), (P) - Promoted.# | Home | Score | Away | Match Information | |||||
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Date and Time (Local) | Venue | Referee | Attendance | ||||||
League One Grand Final | |||||||||
F | Oldham | 31 – 20 | Keighley Cougars | 20 September, 15:00 BST | Whitebank Stadium, Oldham | Mike Woodhead | 1,405 |
# | Home | Score | Away | Match Information | |||||
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Date and Time (Local) | Venue | Referee | Attendance | ||||||
League One Promotion Play Off Semi-finals | |||||||||
SF1 | Keighley Cougars | 32 – 6 | North Wales Crusaders | 27 September, 15:00 BST | Cougar Park, Keighley | Stuart Ansell | 1,103 | ||
SF2 | Swinton Lions | 18 – 17 (AET) | York City Knights | 27 September, 15:00 BST | Park Lane, Swinton | Chris Campbell | |||
League One Promotion Play Off Final | |||||||||
F | Keighley Cougars | 28 – 29 | Swinton Lions | 4 October, 14:00 BST | Select Security Stadium, Widnes | Chris Kendall | 4,179 |
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