League Championship 1 Teams 9 League Leaders York City Knights | Duration 20 matches Champions Hunslet Hawks | |
The 2014 Championship 1, known as the Kingstone Press Championship 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.
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One team will be promoted from Championship 1, due to the restructure of Super League and the Championship, The top five sides will contest the play-offs the winner will be promoted. There is no relegation from this league as it is the lowest tier of professional rugby league.
The only cup competition the teams will compete in is the 2014 Challenge Cup after the Northern Rail Cup was scrapped for 2014.
2014 structure
The competition features the seven teams that did not win promotion in 2012: Gateshead Thunder, Gloucestershire All Golds, Hemel Stags, London Skolars, Oldham Roughyeds, Oxford RLFC and South Wales Scorpions. The two new teams to the division for 2014 are Hunslet Hawks and York City Knights, who were relegated from the RFL Championship.
Season results
The regular league season sees the 9 teams play each other twice (one home, one away) over 18 matches. At the end of the season, five teams will contest a playoff for a place in the new Championship structure. Five clubs will be relegated to the Championship 1 from the Championship.