2015 Championship 1

2015 Championship 1
League Championship 1
Duration 22 matches
Number of teams 14
2015 Season
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The 2015 Championship 1, known as the Kingstone Press League 1 for sponsorship reasons, will be 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.

2015 structure

The competition features the eight teams that did not win promotion in 2014: Gloucestershire All Golds, Hemel Stags, London Skolars, Newcastle Thunder, Oldham Roughyeds, 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.

Team & current season 2014 Position Stadium Capacity Location
Barrow Raiders 14th (Championship) Craven Park 7,600 Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
Coventry Bears N/A Butts Park Arena 4,000 Coventry, West Midlands
Gloucestershire All Golds 6th Prince of Wales Stadium 480 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Hemel Stags 5th Pennine Way 2,000 Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Keighley Cougars 8th (Championship) Cougar Park 7,800 Keighley, West Yorkshire
London Skolars 7th New River Stadium 5,000 Haringey, London
Newcastle Thunder 4th Kingston Park 10,200 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
North Wales Crusaders 11th (Championship) Racecourse Ground 10,500 (15,500 with The Kop open) Wrexham, Wales
Oldham Roughyeds 3rd Whitebank Stadium 1,500 (temporary capacity) Limeside, Oldham, Greater Manchester
Oxford RLFC 8th Iffley Road 500 Oxford, Oxfordshire
Rochdale Hornets 12th (Championship) Spotland 10,249 Rochdale, Greater Manchester
South Wales Scorpions 9th Llynfi Road 6,000 Maesteg, Bridgend, Wales
Swinton Lions 13th (Championship) Leigh Sports Village 12,700 Leigh, Greater Manchester
York City Knights 1st Huntington Stadium 3,428 York, North Yorkshire

Season table

    		Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
    1 Oldham Roughyeds 4 4 0 0 159 44 +115 8
    2 Keighley Cougars 4 4 0 0 141 70 +71 8
    3 Newcastle Thunder 4 3 0 1 90 91 -1 6
    4 Barrow Raiders 4 2 0 2 170 94 +76 4
    5 Rochdale Hornets 4 2 0 2 117 69 +48 4
    6 York City Knights 3 2 0 1 98 58 +40 4
    7 Coventry Bears 4 2 0 2 104 106 -2 4
    8 Gloucestershire All Golds 4 2 0 2 108 114 -6 4
    9 Swinton Lions 3 1 1 1 86 82 +4 3
    10 Oxford RLFC 3 1 0 2 61 104 -43 2
    11 Hemel Stags 4 1 0 3 98 149 -51 2
    12 London Skolars 4 1 0 3 58 130 -72 2
    13 North Wales Crusaders 3 0 1 2 54 61 -7 1
    14 South Wales Scorpions 4 0 0 4 30 202 -172 0
      Teams in position to qualify for promotion as champions
      Teams in position to qualify for play-offs

    This table is correct as of 26 April 2015. 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

    (P) - Promoted, (Pl) - Qualified for Playoffs

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