2010 Championship 1
2010 Championship 1 | |
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League | Championship 1 |
Duration | 20 games each |
Teams | 11 |
Attendance | 2,896 |
Broadcast partners | SKY Sports |
2010 Season | |
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The 2010 Championship 1 was a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in the United Kingdom, the third tier of the sport in the country. The winner of this league, Hunslet Hawks, were promoted to the Co-operative Championship along with play-off winners, York City Knights. There was no relegation from this league as it is the lowest tier of professional rugby league in the UK.
All of the teams competed in the 2010 Challenge Cup but South Wales did not compete in the 2010 National League Cup.[1]
2010 structure
[edit]The competition features mainly the same teams as it did in 2009. The exceptions being that the Dewsbury Rams and the Keighley Cougars were both promoted to compete in the 2010 RFL Championship. Originally, Doncaster and the Leigh Centurions were supposed to be relegated. However, Gateshead Thunder breached the insolvency laws which meant that it was they, instead of Leigh, who were relegated.[2]
The competition was going to contain 10 teams but one more was added when the Super League team the Crusaders left their home base at Bridgend and moved to Wrexham. This resulted in a new club being formed in Neath, South Wales, called the South Wales Scorpions who will play at the Gnoll.
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Team | 2009 Season | Stadium | Capacity | City/Area |
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5th | Woodlands Memorial Ground | N/A | Lytham St Annes, Lancashire |
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11th (Championship) |
Keepmoat Stadium | 15,231 | Doncaster, South Yorkshire |
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7th (Championship) |
Thunderdome | 11,800 | Gateshead, Tyne and Wear |
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6th | South Leeds Stadium | N/A | Leeds, West Yorkshire |
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10th | New River Stadium | 5,000 | Haringey, London |
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4th | Park Lane (Season Start to May) Whitebank Stadium (May onwards) |
N/A 1050 |
Whitefield, Greater Manchester Oldham, Greater Manchester |
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8th | Spotland Stadium | 10,249 | Rochdale, Greater Manchester |
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N/A | The Gnoll | 6,000 | Neath, West Glamorgan, Wales |
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7th | Park Lane | N/A | Swinton, Greater Manchester |
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9th | Derwent Park | 10,000 | Workington, Cumbria |
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3rd | Huntington Stadium | 3,428 | York, North Yorkshire |
Table
[edit]Position | Club | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Pts for | Pts agst | Pts Diff | B.P. | Points |
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1 | ![]() |
20 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 828 | 305 | 523 | 1 | 55 |
2 | ![]() |
20 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 694 | 438 | 256 | 1 | 52 |
3 | ![]() |
20 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 617 | 524 | 83 | 3 | 39 |
4 | ![]() |
20 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 805 | 370 | 435 | 3 | 38[a] |
5 | ![]() |
20 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 630 | 498 | 132 | 7 | 37 |
6 | ![]() |
20 | 9 | 0 | 11 | 576 | 468 | 108 | 7 | 34 |
7 | ![]() |
20 | 8 | 1 | 11 | 494 | 498 | −4 | 7 | 33 |
8 | ![]() |
20 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 570 | 581 | −11 | 4 | 33 |
9 | ![]() |
20 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 518 | 588 | −70 | 4 | 28 |
10 | ![]() |
20 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 444 | 900 | −456 | 4 | 10 |
11 | ![]() |
20 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 236 | 1232 | −996 | 1 | -2[b] |
2010 Playoffs
[edit]Elimination play-offs | Qualifying/Elimination semifinal | Elimination final | Grand Final | |||||||||||||||
12 September 2010 | 26 September 2010, Halliwell Jones Stadium | |||||||||||||||||
1 | ![]() | 41 | ![]() | 4 | ||||||||||||||
2 | ![]() | 32 | 19 September 2010 | ![]() | 25 | |||||||||||||
5 September 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||
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3 | ![]() | 36 | ||||||||||||||||
12 September 2010 | ![]() | 18 | ||||||||||||||||
6 | ![]() | 26 | ||||||||||||||||
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5 September 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||
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4 | ![]() | 60 | ||||||||||||||||
5 | ![]() | 26 | ||||||||||||||||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Hadfield, Dave (8 December 2009). "New Welsh club formed as Crusaders move north". London: The Independent. Archived from the original on 13 December 2009. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
- ^ "RFL accepts Thunder business plan". BBC Sport. 11 November 2009. Retrieved 26 September 2010.