1993–94 Rugby Football League season

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.

1993–94 Rugby Football League season
LeagueStones Bitter Championship
Duration30 Rounds
Teams16
Broadcast partners Sky Sports
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
Leigh
Second Division
Champions Workington Town

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 County Cup and Yorkshire County 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.

Championship
LeagueRFL Championship
Duration30 Matches
Teams16
Champions Wigan Warriors
Promotion and relegation
Relegated to Second Division Hull Kingston Rovers
Leigh

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 consecutive 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.

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 Wigan 302307780403+377461993–94 Champions
2 Bradford Northern 302307784555+22946
3 Warrington 302307628430+19846
4 Castleford 3019110787466+32139
5 Halifax 3017211682581+10136
6 Sheffield Eagles 3016212704671+3334
7 Leeds 3015213673680-732
8 St. Helens 3015114704537+16731
9 Hull 3014214536530+630
10 Widnes 3014016523642-11928
11 Featherstone Rovers 3013116651681-3027
12 Salford 3011019554650-9622
13 Oldham 3010119552651-9921
14 Wakefield Trinity 309120458708-25019
15 Hull Kingston Rovers 309021493782-28918Relegation to 1994–95 Second Division
16 Leigh 302127370912-5425

Second Division
LeagueSecond Division
Duration30 Matches
Teams16
Champions Workington Town
Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 Workington Town 302226760331+32946
2 Doncaster 302217729486+24345
3 London Crusaders 302127842522+32044
4 Batley 302118707426+28143
5 Huddersfield 3020010661518+14340
6 Keighley 3019110856472+38439
7 Dewsbury 3018111766448+31837
8 Rochdale Hornets 3018012704532+636
9 Ryedale-York 3017112662516+14635
10 Whitehaven 3014412571473+9832
11 Barrow 3013116581743-16227
12 Swinton 3011019528681-15322
13Carlisle 309021540878-33818
14 Hunslet 303126445814-3697
15Bramley 303027376957-5816
16Highfield 3011282671234-9673
Promoted

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Challenge Cup
Main article: 1993–94 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.

League Cup
Main article: 1993–94 League Cup (rugby league)

Premiership
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References
  1. Raymond Fletcher; David Howes (1995). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996. London: Headline Book Publishing. p. 303. ISBN 0-7472-7817-2.
  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.

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