1992–93 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.

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 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.

2015 RFL Championship

The 2015 Rugby Football League Championship, which will be known as Kingstone Press Championship due to sponsorship by Kingstone Press Cider, will be a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in the UK, one tier below the first tier Super League. The 2015 season is the first season to consist of a new structure combining the championship and super league divisions three quarters of the way through the season.

The 2015 Championship will feature twelve teams, who will all play each other twice in the regular season, once at home, and once away, totalling 22 games. The 2015 season will also see for the first time the "Summer Bash Weekend", which will be played at Bloomfield Road, Blackpool. This is a 23rd round of fixtures which replicates the Magic Weekend concept, for the Championship sides. After these 23 rounds in both the Championship and the Super League, the two divisions of twelve are split into three divisions of eight. The "Super 8's".

Following the split into the Super 8's, the top four teams in the Championship 2015 will join the bottom four teams of the Super League 2015 in "The Qualifiers". This group will see each team play each other once each, totalling seven extra games, with points reset to zero for the qualifiers. After 7 extra rounds the top 3 teams will earn a place in the Super League competition for 2016, thus either retaining or earning a place in the top competition. The teams finishing 4th and 5th in the qualifiers will play off in an extra fixture, at the home of 4th, for the final place in the 2016 Super League competition. The loser of this fixture, along with teams finishing 6th, 7th, and 8th in the qualifiers will either remain or be relegated and will play in the Championship in the 2016 season.

2014 RFL Championship

The 2014 Rugby Football League Championship, which will be known as Kingstone Press Championship due to sponsorship by Kingstone Press Cider, will be a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in the UK, one tier below the first tier Super League. The 2014 season is the second and final season to consist of a 14-team division following the expansion of the league in 2013.

Relegation to Championship 1 is in place for the 2014 season, along with the play-offs with the format for the play-offs remaining the same with no promotion to the Super League. With two Super League teams relegated in 2014 and the Championship reduced to 12 teams in 2015, as part of the reform of the leagues, five teams will be relegated at the end of the regular season with one team promoted from Championship 1.

All of the teams in the 2014 Championship will also compete in the 2014 Challenge Cup where they will enter in the third round.

Teams

This year's competition features the 12 of the 14 teams from 2013 plus the Champions and Play-off winner of the 2013 Championship 1 season, which are North Wales Crusaders and Rochdale Hornets. Hunslet Hawks and York City Knights, who finished in the bottom two in 2013 were relegated into Championship 1.