Duration 26 Rounds Premiership winners St Helens Period 1992 – 1993 | Broadcast partners Sky Sports Man of Steel Andy Platt Number of teams 14 | |
Promoted from Second Division Featherstone Rovers
Oldham Relegated to Second Division No Relegations league expanded to 16 Champions Wigan Warriors, Featherstone Rovers, Keighley Cougars People also search for 1991–92 Rugby Football League season | ||
The 1992–93 Rugby Football League season was the 98th ever season of professional rugby league football in Britain. Sixteen teams competed from August, 1992 until May, 1993 for the Stones Bitter Championship, Premiership Trophy and Silk Cut Challenge Cup.
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Season summary
The 1993 Man of Steel Award for player of the season went to Wigan's Andy Platt.
Wigan beat St. Helens 5–4 to win the 1992 Lancashire Cup, and Wakefield Trinity beat Sheffield Eagles 29–16 to win the Yorkshire Cup, to date this was final season of the Lancashire Cup and Yorkshire Cup competitions that, except for the break for World War I and World War II (Lancashire Cup only), had taken place annually since their inaugural 1905–06 season.
Championship Final Standings
Second Division Final Standings
Third Division Final Standings
Challenge Cup
The 1993 Silk Cut Challenge Cup Final was played by Wigan and Widnes on 2:30 on a warm and sunny Saturday afternoon, 1 May 1993 at Wembley Stadium, London in front of 77,684. By coming on as a substitute in this game at 17 years and 11 months of age, Andy Farrell become the youngest player to win a Challenge Cup final. The winner of the Lance Todd Trophy was Wigan's Dean Bell.