1992–93 Rugby Football League season

1992–93 Rugby Football League season
Stones Bitter Championship
Duration 26 Rounds
Number of teams 14
Broadcast partners United Kingdom Sky Sports
1992–93 Season
Champions Wigan
Premiership winners St Helens
Man of Steel Andy Platt
Promotion and relegation
Promoted from Second Division Featherstone Rovers
Oldham
Relegated to Second Division No Relegations league expanded to 16
Second Division
Champions Featherstone Rovers
Third Division
Champions Keighley Cougars
Third Division discontinued
Joined Second Division Keighley Cougars
Workington Town
Dewsbury
Ryedale-York
Whitehaven
Batley
Doncaster
Hunslet
Highfield
Barrow
Relegated to
National Conference League
Chorley Borough
Blackpool Gladiators
Nottingham City
< 1991–92 Seasons 1993–94 >

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 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.

League Tables

Championship Final Standings

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 Wigan 262015744327+41741
2 St Helens 262015632345+28741
3 Bradford Northern 2615011553434+9930
4 Widnes 2615011549446+10330
5 Leeds 2614210595522+7330
6 Castleford 2614111544401+14329
7 Halifax 2613013557505+5226
8 Warrington 2612113487450+3725
9 Hull 2610115381535-15421
10 Sheffield Eagles 2610115405627-22221
11 Leigh 269215410630-22020
12 Wakefield Trinity 268216405535-13018
13 Salford 269017498725-22718
14Hull Kingston Rovers 267019321599-27814
Champions

Second Division Final Standings[1]

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1Featherstone Rovers 28241399635264449
2Oldham 28201775350325041
3Huddersfield 28150135655481730
4Rochdale Hornets 28140146226071528
5London Crusaders 2812214534562-2826
6Swinton 2810018409636-22730
7Carlisle 286319454721-26715
8Bramley 287120328732-40413
Promoted Reformed Second Division

Third Division Final Standings[1]

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1Keighley Cougars 24210391728862942
2Workington Town 24190583523759838
3Dewsbury 24180671829142736
4Ryedale-York 24170774733541234
5Whitehaven 24160869632836832
6Batley 24160850826824032
7Doncaster 24140105644699528
8Hunslet 24140105544985628
9Highfield 246018310915-60512
10Barrow 245019476625-14910
11Chorley Borough 245019317781-46410
12Blackpool Gladiators 244020302958-6568
13Nottingham City 2410231811132-9512
Reformed Second Division

Challenge Cup

Main article: 1993 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.[2] The winner of the Lance Todd Trophy was Wigan's Dean Bell.

References

  1. 1 2 Raymond Fletcher; David Howes (1995). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996. London: Headline Book Publishing. p. 303. ISBN 0-7472-7817-2.
  2. "Farrell switches codes". Telegraph.co.uk. UK: Telegraph Media Group Limited. 2005-03-23. Retrieved 2010-06-30.

Sources

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