1992–93 Rugby Football League season

Stones Bitter Championship

Duration

26 Rounds

Number of teams

Broadcast partners

1992–93 Season

Wigan

Promotion and relegation

Promoted from Second Division

Featherstone Rovers

Oldham

Relegated to Second Division

No Relegations league expanded to 16

Champions

Champions

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

Stones Bitter League Champions: Wigan
Silk Cut Challenge Cup Winners: Wigan (20-14 v Widnes)
Stones Bitter Premiership Trophy Winners: St. Helens (10-4 v Wigan)
- Harry Sunderland Trophy: Chris Joynt
Regal Trophy Winners: Wigan (15-8 v Bradford Northern)
2nd Division Champions: Featherstone Rovers

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 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	26	20	1	5	744	327	+417	41
2	St Helens	26	20	1	5	632	345	+287	41
3	Bradford Northern	26	15	0	11	553	434	+99	30
4	Widnes	26	15	0	11	549	446	+103	30
5	Leeds	26	14	2	10	595	522	+73	30
6	Castleford	26	14	1	11	544	401	+143	29
7	Halifax	26	13	0	13	557	505	+52	26
8	Warrington	26	12	1	13	487	450	+37	25
9	Hull	26	10	1	15	381	535	-154	21
10	Sheffield Eagles	26	10	1	15	405	627	-222	21
11	Leigh	26	9	2	15	410	630	-220	20
12	Wakefield Trinity	26	8	2	16	405	535	-130	18
13	Salford	26	9	0	17	498	725	-227	18
14	Hull Kingston Rovers	26	7	0	19	321	599	-278	14

Champions

Second Division Final Standings^[1]

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Featherstone Rovers	28	24	1	3	996	352	644	49
2	Oldham	28	20	1	7	753	503	250	41
3	Huddersfield	28	15	0	13	565	548	17	30
4	Rochdale Hornets	28	14	0	14	622	607	15	28
5	London Crusaders	28	12	2	14	534	562	-28	26
6	Swinton	28	10	0	18	409	636	-227	30
7	Carlisle	28	6	3	19	454	721	-267	15
8	Bramley	28	7	1	20	328	732	-404	13

Promoted	Reformed Second Division

Third Division Final Standings^[1]

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Keighley Cougars	24	21	3	917	288	629	42
2	Workington Town	24	19	5	835	237	598	38
3	Dewsbury	24	18	6	718	291	427	36
4	Ryedale-York	24	17	7	747	335	412	34
5	Whitehaven	24	16	8	696	328	368	32
6	Batley	24	16	8	508	268	240	32
7	Doncaster	24	14	10	564	469	95	28
8	Hunslet	24	14	10	554	498	56	28
9	Highfield	24	6	18	310	915	-605	12
10	Barrow	24	5	19	476	625	-149	10
11	Chorley Borough	24	5	19	317	781	-464	10
12	Blackpool Gladiators	24	4	20	302	958	-656	8
13	Nottingham City	24	1	23	181	1132	-951	2

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

Sources

1992-93 Rugby Football League season at rlhalloffame.org.uk
1992-93 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.com
Wigan's record Cup run at news.bbc.co.uk
Great Britain Competitions 1992-1993 at hunterlink.net.au
Championship 1992/93 at rugbyleagueproject.org

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Est. 1872 in Wigan, England

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1992–93 Rugby Football League season

Season summary

League Tables

Championship Final Standings

Second Division Final Standings[1]

Third Division Final Standings[1]

Challenge Cup

References

Sources

Second Division Final Standings^[1]

Third Division Final Standings^[1]