1993–94 Rugby Football League season

Stones Bitter Championship

Duration

30 Rounds

Number of teams

Broadcast partners

1993–94 Season

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.

Season summary

Stones Bitter League Champions: Wigan
Silk Cut Challenge Cup Winners: Wigan (26-16 v Leeds)
Stones Bitter Premiership Trophy Winners: Wigan (24-20 v Castleford)
- Harry Sunderland Trophy: Sam Panapa
Regal Trophy Winners: Castleford (33-2 v Wigan)
2nd Division Champions: Workington Town

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 fifth 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	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	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	30	9	0	21	540	878	-338	18
14	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

Main article: 1994 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, and went on to win the game 26–16.

References

↑ Raymond Fletcher; David Howes (1995). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996. London: Headline Book Publishing. p. 303. ISBN 0-7472-7817-2.
↑ Baker, Andrew (1995-08-20). "100 years of rugby league: From the great divide to the Super era". Independent, The (independent.co.uk). Retrieved 2009-09-25.

Sources

1993-94 Rugby Football League season at rlhalloffame.org.uk
1993-94 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.com
Wigan's record Cup run at news.bbc.co.uk
Great Britain Competitions 1993-1994 at hunterlink.net.au
Championship 1993/94 at rugbyleagueproject.org

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1993–94 Rugby Football League season

Season summary

Stones Bitter Championship

Championship Final Standings

Second Division Final Standings[1]

Challenge Cup

References

Sources

Second Division Final Standings^[1]