2014 RFL Championship season results

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

Round 1

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

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

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

References

External links

• Official Website