2009 Championship 1
2009 Championship 1 is a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in the United Kingdom, the third tier of the sport in the country. The winner of this league will be promoted to the Co-operative Championship. There is no relegation from this league as it is the lowest tier of professional rugby league in the UK.
2009 Structure
| Championship 1 |
| Team |
2008 Season |
Stadium |
Capacity |
City/Area |
 Blackpool Panthers |
9th |
Woodlands Memorial Ground |
9,000 |
Lytham St Annes, Lancashire |
 Dewsbury Rams |
11th
(NL1) |
Crown Flatt |
5,100 |
Dewsbury, West Yorkshire |
 Hunslet Hawks |
12th |
South Leeds Stadium |
4,000 |
Leeds, West Yorkshire |
 Keighley Cougars |
5th |
Cougar Park |
7,800 |
Keighley, West Yorkshire |
 London Skolars |
11th |
New River Stadium |
5,000 |
Haringey, London |
 Oldham Roughyeds |
3rd |
Boundary Park |
10,368 |
Oldham, Greater Manchester |
 Rochdale Hornets |
7th |
Spotland Stadium |
10,249 |
Rochdale, Greater Manchester |
 Swinton Lions |
10th |
Park Lane |
3,000 |
Swinton, Greater Manchester |
 Workington Town |
8th |
Derwent Park |
10,000 |
Workington, Cumbria |
 York City Knights |
6th |
Huntington Stadium |
3,428 |
York, North Yorkshire |
The Dewsbury Rams were easily the best team throughout the regular season. They won all their games and finished on top of the table, 12 points ahead of the second placed Keighley Cougars. The Rochdale Hornets were stripped of six competition points for going into administration and had to be reformed by local fans .
The first round of playoffs saw both the Hunslet Hawks and the Oldham Roughyeds advance to play each other in a knockout game the very next week.
Table
a: Rochdale were docked 6 points.
Play-offs
Championship 1 uses a top 6 play-off system.
Grand Final
2009 Attendances
| |
Team |
Played |
Highest |
Lowest |
Total |
Average |
| 1 | Dewsbury Rams |
9 | 2,103 | 912 | 11,381 | 1,265 |
| 2 | York City Knights |
10 | 3,106 | 629 | 11,469 | 1,147 |
| 3 | Keighley Cougars |
10 | 1,726 | 534 | 9,898 | 989 |
| 4 | Oldham Roughyeds |
11 | 1,419 | 745 | 10,710 | 974 |
| 5 | Rochdale Hornets |
9 | 1,249 | 480 | 6,139 | 682 |
| 6 | Hunslet Hawks |
9 | 1019 | 412 | 5,747 | 639 |
| 7 | Blackpool Panthers |
8 | 975 | 280 | 4,139 | 517 |
| 8 | Swinton Lions |
9 | 705 | 369 | 4,610 | 512 |
| 9 | Workington Town |
6 | 693 | 353 | 3070 | 512 |
| 10 | London Skolars |
9 | 1,156 | 215 | 4003 | 445 |
| | Total | 90 | 11,398 | 215 | 82,564 | 907 |
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– Crowd figures could not be found for all games.
– The final will be played at a neutral venue and thus will not be included in the averages of any team.
See also
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