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2014 RFL Championship season results

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This is a list of the 2014 RFL Championship season results. The Championship is the second-tier rugby league competition in the United Kingdom. The 2014 season started on 16 February and ends on 5 October with the Grand Final at a venue to be announced.[1] 2014 is the second and final season to consist of a 14-team division, with the league being reduced to 12 teams in 2015 as part of the Rugby Football League's reform of the leagues.

The 2014 season consists of two stages. The regular season was played over 26 round-robin fixtures, in which each of the fourteen teams involved in the competition played each other once at home and once away. In the Championship, a win was worth three points in the table, a draw worth two points apiece, and a loss by less than 12 points during the game earned one bonus point. Defeats by more than 12 points yielded no points.

The Championship will be decided through the second stage of the season, the play-offs, which has been re-structured following the expansion. The play-offs now adopts the 8-team play-off, similar to what is used in the Super League with the top eight teams in the table contest to play in the Grand Final, the winners of which will be crowned champions. A decision whether to use the club-call system, as used in Super League, will be taken during the regular season.[2]

Regular season

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Round 1

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Home Score Away Match Information
Date and Time Venue Referee Attendance
North Wales Crusaders 34 – 16 Barrow Raiders 16 February, 14:30 GMT Racecourse Ground Gareth Hewer 1,118
Dewsbury Rams 11 – 10 Featherstone Rovers 16 February, 15:00 GMT Tetley's Stadium Chris Leatherbarrow 2,096
Halifax 28 – 18 Swinton Lions 16 February, 15:00 GMT The Shay Joe Cobb 1,750
Keighley Cougars 36 – 14 Whitehaven 16 February, 15:00 GMT Cougar Park George Stokes 1,061
Leigh Centurions 52 – 12 Batley Bulldogs 16 February, 15:00 GMT Leigh Sports Village Matt Thomason
Sheffield Eagles P – P Rochdale Hornets TBAA Owlerton Stadium
Workington Town 12 – 22 Doncaster 16 February, 15:00 GMT Derwent Park Jamie Bloem 895
Source:[3][4]

Round 2

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Home Score Away Match Information
Date and Time Venue Referee Attendance
Barrow Raiders 8 – 52 Leigh Centurions 23 February, 14:00 GMT Craven Park C Leatherbarrow 1,252
Batley Bulldogs Keighley Cougars 23 February, 14:00 GMT Mount Pleasant
Doncaster 30 – 12 Keighley Cougars 23 February, 15:00 GMT Keepmoat Stadium G Hewer 647
Featherstone Rovers 28 – 20 Halifax 23 February, 15:00 GMT Bigfellas Stadium M Thomason 2,583
Rochdale Hornets 12 – 42 Dewsbury Rams 23 February, 15:00 GMT Spotland Stadium J Bloem 817
Swinton Lions 16 – 30 Workington Town 23 February, 15:00 GMT Leigh Sports Village W Turley 548
Whitehaven North Wales Crusaders 27 April, 15:00 GMT Recreation Ground
Source:[5][6]

Notes

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A.^ Game postponed due to waterlogged pitch [7]

References

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  1. ^ "2014 Kingstone Press Championship fixtures in full". Rugby League Planet. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
  2. ^ "Championships Competition Structure". Rugby League Championship. Archived from the original on 4 February 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  3. ^ "Results - Championship - Rugby League - BBC Sport". BBC Sport. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  4. ^ "Results". Rugby League Championship. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  5. ^ "BBC Sport - Rugby League - Co-operative Championship fixtures". BBC Sport. 23 March 2007. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  6. ^ "Fixtures". Rugby League Championship. Archived from the original on 4 February 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  7. ^ "EAGLES VS HORNETS - POSTPONED". Sheffield Eagles. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
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