Английская Википедия:2015 RFL Championship
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox rugby football league season
The 2015 Rugby Football League Championship, known as the Kingstone Press Championship for sponsorship reasons, was a professional rugby league football competition played in the UK, one tier below the Super League.
The 2015 Championship featured twelve teams, who played each other twice in the regular season, once at home and once away, totaling 22 games. The 2015 season also saw for the first time the Summer Bash Weekend, which was played at Bloomfield Road, Blackpool and created an additional round of fixtures. After 23 rounds in both the Championship and the Super League, the two divisions of twelve were split into the Rugby League Super 8s.
Leigh Centurions were the league leaders after 23 rounds and were thus deemed Champions for the 2015 season, while Hunslet Hawks and Doncaster were relegated following the culmination of the Super 8s.
Teams
The competition featured 12 teams, as opposed to the 14 seen in the previous year. The teams consisted of nine of the 14 teams from 2014, the Play-off winner of the 2014 Championship 1 season, which was Hunslet Hawks, and the two sides relegated from 2014 Super League, Bradford Bulls and London Broncos. Keighley Cougars, North Wales Crusaders, Rochdale Hornets, Swinton Lions, and Barrow Raiders who finished in the bottom five in 2015 were relegated into League One for 2015.
| Legend | |
|---|---|
| Reigning champions | |
| Promoted | |
| Relegated | |
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Season standings
The regular league season saw the 12 teams play each other twice (one home, one away) over 24 matches. The top four teams at the end of the regular season qualified for "The Qualifiers", while the other eight teams contested the "Championship Shield".
| Position | Club | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Pts for | Pts agst | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Leigh Centurions (C) | 23 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 972 | 343 | 43 |
| 2 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Bradford Bulls | 23 | 18 | 1 | 4 | 828 | 387 | 37 |
| 3 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Sheffield Eagles | 23 | 17 | 0 | 6 | 586 | 451 | 34 |
| 4 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Halifax | 23 | 16 | 0 | 7 | 646 | 377 | 32 |
| 5 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Featherstone Rovers | 23 | 13 | 0 | 10 | 633 | 565 | 26 |
| 6 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Dewsbury Rams | 23 | 12 | 1 | 10 | 490 | 461 | 25 |
| 7 | Шаблон:Leagueicon London Broncos | 23 | 12 | 0 | 11 | 538 | 510 | 24 |
| 8 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Workington Town | 23 | 7 | 1 | 15 | 379 | 671 | 15 |
| 9 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Batley Bulldogs | 23 | 7 | 0 | 16 | 421 | 539 | 14 |
| 10 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Whitehaven | 23 | 7 | 0 | 16 | 418 | 671 | 14 |
| 11 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Hunslet Hawks | 23 | 5 | 0 | 18 | 362 | 769 | 10 |
| 12 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Doncaster | 23 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 282 | 851 | 2 |
| Teams qualifying for "The Qualifiers". | |
| Teams qualifying for "The Championship Shield". |
- The Qualifiers
Шаблон:Main The Qualifiers Super 8's saw the bottom 4 teams from Super League table join the top 4 teams from the Championship. The points totals are reset to 0 and each team plays 7 games each, playing every other team once. After 7 games each the teams finishing 1st, 2nd, and 3rd will gain qualification to the 2016 Super League season. The teams finishing 4th and 5th will play in the "Million Pound Game" at the home of the 4th place team which will earn the winner a place in the 2016 Super League; the loser, along with teams finishing 6th, 7th and 8th, will be relegated to the Championship.
| Position | Club | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Pts for | Pts agst | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Hull Kingston Rovers | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 234 | 118 | 14 |
| 2 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Widnes Vikings | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 232 | 70 | 10 |
| 3 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Salford Red Devils | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 239 | 203 | 10 |
| 4 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Wakefield Trinity Wildcats | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 153 | 170 | 6 |
| 5 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Bradford Bulls | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 167 | 240 | 6 |
| 6 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Halifax | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 162 | 186 | 4 |
| 7 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Sheffield Eagles | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 152 | 267 | 4 |
| 8 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Leigh Centurions | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 146 | 231 | 2 |
| Teams qualifying for Super League 2016. | |
| Teams qualifying for the "Million Pound Game" to earn a 2016 Super League Place | |
| Teams relegated to the Championship for 2016 |
| # | Home | Score | Away | Match Information | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date and Time (Local) | Venue | Referee | Attendance | ||||||
| Million Pound Game | |||||||||
| F | Шаблон:Leagueicon Wakefield Trinity Wildcats | 24 – 16 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Bradford Bulls | 3 October, 14:50 BST | Belle Vue | R. Silverwood | 7,246 | ||
- Therefore, Wakefield are the final team to secure a spot in Super League XXI.
- Championship Shield
Шаблон:Main The third of the three "Super 8" groups saw teams finishing 5th to 12th in the regular Championship table. Like the Super League 8's, these teams retained their original points and played 7 extra games, with the teams finishing in the top 4 places after these extra games contesting playoffs similar to Super League, with 1st v 4th and 2nd vs 3rd, with the winners contesting the Championship Shield Grand Final. The two teams finishing at the bottom of this Super 8s group (7th and 8th) were relegated to the League 1 2016 season, and replaced by the two 2015 League One promoted sides.
| Position | Club | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Pts for | Pts agst | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Featherstone Rovers (Q) | 30 | 19 | 0 | 11 | 809 | 701 | 38 |
| 2 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Dewsbury Rams (Q) | 30 | 17 | 1 | 12 | 686 | 624 | 35 |
| 3 | Шаблон:Leagueicon London Broncos (Q) | 30 | 15 | 0 | 15 | 756 | 674 | 30 |
| 4 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Workington Town (Q) | 30 | 11 | 1 | 18 | 587 | 782 | 23 |
| 5 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Batley Bulldogs | 30 | 10 | 0 | 20 | 645 | 707 | 20 |
| 6 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Whitehaven | 30 | 10 | 0 | 20 | 618 | 921 | 20 |
| 7 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Hunslet Hawks (R) | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 518 | 957 | 16 |
| 8 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Doncaster (R) | 30 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 401 | 1128 | 4 |
(Q) Qualified for the semi-final (R) Relegated to League 1
| Teams qualifying for the Championship Shield 2015 Semi-Finals. | |
| Teams relegated to 2016 League One. |
| # | Home | Score | Away | Match Information | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date and Time (Local) | Venue | Referee | Attendance | ||||||
| CHAMPIONSHIP SHIELD SEMI-FINALS | |||||||||
| SF1 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Featherstone Rovers | 52 – 14 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Workington Town | 27 September, 15:00 | Post Office Road, Featherstone | 1,233 | |||
| SF1 | Шаблон:Leagueicon Dewsbury Rams | 18 – 34 | Шаблон:Leagueicon London Broncos | 27 September, 15:00. | Tetley's Stadium, Dewsbury | 940 | |||
| CHAMPIONSHIP SHIELD GRAND FINAL | |||||||||
| F | Шаблон:Leagueicon Featherstone Rovers | 34 – 6 | Шаблон:Leagueicon London Broncos | Sunday 4 October, 4:30pm | Select Security Stadium | Chris Campbell | 4,179 | ||
See also
- Championship
- 2014 Championship 1
- British rugby league system
- Super League
- Rugby League Conference
- Northern Ford Premiership
- National League Cup
- Rugby League Reserve Team Championship
References
External links
Шаблон:2015 in Rugby League Шаблон:RFL Championship Шаблон:British Rugby League links
