1993–94 Rugby Football League season

1993–94 Rugby Football League season
Stones Bitter Championship
Number of teams 16
1993–94 Season
Champions Wigan
Premiership winners Wigan
Man of Steel Jonathan Davies
Promotion and relegation
Promoted from Second Division Workington Town
Doncaster
Relegated to Second Division Hull Kingston Rovers
Featherstone Rovers
Second Division
Champions Workington Town
< 1992–93 Seasons 1994–95 >

The 1993–94 Rugby Football League season was the 99th ever season of professional rugby league football in Britain. Sixteen teams competed from August, 1993 until May, 1994 for a number of titles, primarily the Stones Bitter Championship.

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Season summary

The 1994 Man of Steel Award for player of the season went to Warrington's Jonathan Davies.

This season saw the highest ever away victory in the league when Keighley Cougars beat Highfield 104-4 at the Rochdale Hornets ground on 23 April.

This was the first season since the 1905–06 inaugural season of the Lancashire Cup and Yorkshire Cup, except for the break for World War I and World War II (Lancashire Cup only), that the Lancashire Cup and Yorkshire Cup competitions had not taken place.

Stones Bitter Championship

Wigan, Bradford Northern and Warrington all finished the season on top of the ladder with 46 points, but Wigan's superior points differential saw them crowned League Champions for the third consecuive time. This earned them the right to travel to Australia at the close of the season and contest the 1994 World Club Challenge. Wigan defeated the Brisbane Broncos and confirmed their position as the dominant rugby league club of the year.

After finishing in second last and last place respectively, Hull Kingston Rovers and Leigh were demoted to the Second Division.

Championship Final Standings

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 Wigan 30 23 0 7 780 403 +377 46
2 Bradford Northern 30 23 0 7 784 555 +229 46
3 Warrington 30 23 0 7 628 430 +198 46
4 Castleford 30 19 1 10 787 466 +321 39
5 Halifax 30 17 2 11 682 581 +101 36
6 Sheffield Eagles 30 16 2 12 704 671 +33 34
7 Leeds 30 15 2 13 673 680 -7 32
8 St Helens 30 15 1 14 704 537 +167 31
9 Hull F.C. 30 14 2 14 536 530 +6 30
10 Widnes 30 14 0 16 523 642 -119 28
11 Featherstone Rovers 30 13 1 16 651 681 -30 27
12 Salford 30 11 0 19 554 650 -96 22
13 Oldham 30 10 1 19 552 651 -99 21
14 Wakefield Trinity 30 9 1 20 458 708 -250 19
15 Hull Kingston Rovers 30 9 0 21 493 782 -289 18
16 Leigh 30 2 1 27 370 912 -542 5
Champions Relegated

Second Division Final Standings[1]

Second Division

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 Workington Town 30 22 2 6 760 331 +329 46
2 Doncaster 30 22 1 7 729 486 +243 45
3 London Crusaders 30 21 2 7 842 522 +320 44
4 Batley 30 21 1 8 707 426 +281 43
5 Huddersfield 30 20 0 10 661 518 +143 40
6 Keighley 30 19 1 10 856 472 +384 39
7 Dewsbury 30 18 1 11 766 448 +318 37
8 Rochdale Hornets 30 18 0 12 704 532 +6 36
9 Ryedale-York 30 17 1 12 662 516 +146 35
10 Whitehaven RLFC 30 14 4 12 571 473 +98 32
11 Barrow 30 13 1 16 581 743 -162 27
12 Swinton 30 11 0 19 528 681 -153 22
13 Carlisle RLFC 30 9 0 21 540 878 -338 18
45 Hunslet 30 3 1 26 445 814 -369 7
15 Bramley 30 3 0 27 376 957 -581 6
16 Highfield 30 1 1 28 267 1234 -967 3
Promoted

Challenge Cup

The Silk Cut Challenge Cup final was played between Wigan and Leeds on a Saturday afternoon, 30 April, 1994 at Wembley Stadium, before a crowd of 78,348. Bonnie Tyler lead the community singing at the match.[2] Wigan's Martin Offiah opened the scoring with a ninety-plus metre try.

Referee: David Campbell (Widnes).

Wigan 26

  1. Gary Connolly
  2. Va'aiga Tuigamala
  3. Dean Bell (c)
  4. Barrie Jon Mather
  5. Martin Offiah (2 tries)
  6. Frano Botica (5 goals)
  7. Shaun Edwards
  8. Kelvin Skerrett
  9. Martin Dermott
  10. Andy Platt
  11. Denis Betts
  12. Andy Farrell (1 try)
  13. Phil Clarke

Coach: John Dorahy

Leeds 16:

  1. Alan Tait
  2. Jim Fallon (1 try)
  3. Kevin Iro
  4. Craig Innes
  5. Francis Cummins (1 try)
  6. Graham Holroyd (2 goals)
  7. Garry Schofield (1 try)
  8. Neil Harmon
  9. James Lowes
  10. Harvey Howard
  11. Gary Mercer
  12. Richard Eyres
  13. Ellery Hanley (c)

Coach: Doug Laughton

Lance Todd Trophy winner: Martin Offiah (Wigan)

References

  1. ^ Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996. London: Headline Book Publishing. 1995. p. 303. ISBN 0747278172. 
  2. ^ Baker, Andrew (1995-08-20). "100 years of rugby league: From the great divide to the Super era". Independent, The (independent.co.uk). http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/100-years-of-rugby-league-from-the-great-divide-to-the-super-era-1597130.html. Retrieved 2009-09-25. 

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