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1996 RFL Division One

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RFL Division One
LeagueRugby Football League Division One
Duration20 Rounds
Teams11
1996 Season
Divisional Premiership winners Salford Reds
Champions Salford Reds
Tom Bergin Trophy Cliff Eccles

The 1996 Division One Championship season was the second tier of British rugby league during the 1996 season, and was also the first season of rugby league to be played in the summer.[1] The competition featured all eleven teams from the 1995–96 Rugby Football League season.

Championship

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The league was won by Salford Reds for a second successive season, winning promotion to the Super League. The club also won the Divisional Premiership final against Keighley Cougars, with Cliff Eccles winning the Tom Bergin Trophy.

Rochdale Hornets and Batley Bulldogs were both relegated to Division Two.

League table

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Team Pld W D L PF PA Pts
1 Salford Reds 20 18 0 2 733 298 36
2 Keighley Cougars 20 14 2 4 558 333 30
3 Hull Sharks 20 14 0 6 565 392 28
4 Featherstone Rovers 20 12 2 6 557 371 26
5 Huddersfield 20 12 0 8 557 308 24
6 Wakefield Trinity 20 10 1 9 485 455 21
7 Widnes 20 9 1 10 413 447 19
8 Dewsbury 20 6 1 13 264 618 13
9 Whitehaven 20 5 1 14 328 546 11
10 Rochdale Hornets 20 2 2 16 348 602 6
11 Batley 20 2 2 16 230 668 6
Champions Relegated

Premiership

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8 September 1996
Salford Reds 19 – 6 Keighley Cougars
Try: Naylor, Blakeley
Goal: Blakeley (3)
Drop goal: Blakeley
Try: Cantillon
Goal: Irving
Old Trafford, Manchester
Referee: Stuart Cummings
Player of the Match: Cliff Eccles

Statistics

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The following are the top points scorers in Division One during the 1996 season. Statistics are for league matches only.[2]

Most points

Player Team Tries Goals DGs Points
Martin Pearson Featherstone Rovers 14 81 1 219
Steve Blakeley Salford Reds 9 84 0 204
Brad Davis Wakefield Trinity 15 62 3 187
Mark Hewitt Hull Sharks 1 67 0 138
Christian Tyrer Widnes 6 54 3 135
Keith Dixon Keighley Cougars 5 46 0 112
Barry Eaton Dewsbury 2 42 1 93
Greg Austin Huddersfield Giants 10 25 0 90
Jason Critchley Keighley Cougars 21 0 0 84
Fata Sini Salford Reds 15 10 0 80

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Dave Hadfield (1995-12-20). "Rugby's pounds 87m deal gives Murdoch transfer veto". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
  2. ^ Fletcher, Raymond; Howes, David (27 March 1997). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1997. London: Headline. pp. 184–5. ISBN 978-0-7472-7764-4.
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