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. 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.
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.
Regular season
Round 1
HomeScoreAwayMatch InformationDate and TimeVenueRefereeAttendance North Wales Crusaders34 – 16 Barrow Raiders16 February, 14:30 GMTRacecourse GroundGareth Hewer1,118 Dewsbury Rams11 – 10 Featherstone Rovers16 February, 15:00 GMTTetley's StadiumChris Leatherbarrow2,096 Halifax28 – 18 Swinton Lions16 February, 15:00 GMTThe ShayJoe Cobb1,750 Keighley Cougars36 – 14 Whitehaven16 February, 15:00 GMTCougar ParkGeorge Stokes1,061 Leigh Centurions52 – 12 Batley Bulldogs16 February, 15:00 GMTLeigh Sports VillageMatt Thomason Sheffield EaglesP – P Rochdale HornetsTBAOwlerton Stadium Workington Town12 – 22 Doncaster16 February, 15:00 GMTDerwent ParkJamie Bloem895 Source:
Round 2
HomeScoreAwayMatch InformationDate and TimeVenueRefereeAttendance Barrow Raiders8 – 52 Leigh Centurions23 February, 14:00 GMTCraven ParkC Leatherbarrow1,252 Batley Bulldogs36 – 16 Workington Town23 February, 14:00 GMTMount Pleasant Doncaster30 – 12 Keighley Cougars23 February, 15:00 GMTKeepmoat StadiumG Hewer647 Featherstone Rovers28 – 20 Halifax23 February, 15:00 GMTBigfellas StadiumM Thomason2,583 Rochdale Hornets12 – 42 Dewsbury Rams23 February, 15:00 GMTSpotland StadiumJ Bloem817 Swinton Lions16 – 30 Workington Town23 February, 15:00 GMTLeigh Sports VillageW Turley548 Whitehaven0 – 34 North Wales Crusaders27 April, 15:00 GMTRecreation Ground Source:
Notes A. Game postponed due to waterlogged pitch
References
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