1997 RFL Division One

RFL Division One

Rugby Football League Division One
Duration	20 Rounds
Number of teams	11
1997 Season
Divisional Premiership winners	Huddersfield Giants
Champions	Hull Sharks
Player of the year	Craig Weston
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The 1997 Division One Championship season was the second tier of British rugby league during the 1997 season. The competition featured eleven teams, with Hull Sharks winning the league, and Huddersfield Giants winning the Divisional Premiership.

Championship

The league was won by Hull Sharks, winning promotion to the Super League along with runners-up Huddersfield Giants. Huddersfield also won the Divisional Premiership final against Hull, with Craig Weston winning the Tom Bergin Trophy.

Widnes Vikings and Workington Town were both relegated to Division Two.

League table

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts
1	Hull Sharks	20	18	1	1	617	228	37
2	Huddersfield Giants	20	16	0	4	630	320	32
3	Keighley Cougars	20	11	1	8	428	332	23
4	Whitehaven Warriors	20	11	1	8	436	398	23
5	Wakefield Trinity	20	9	1	10	393	419	19
6	Dewsbury Rams	20	9	0	11	341	455	18
7	Featherstone Rovers	20	8	1	11	408	395	17
8	Hull Kingston Rovers	20	8	1	11	440	481	17
9	Swinton Lions	20	7	0	13	355	488	14
10	Widnes Vikings	20	6	0	14	282	579	12
11	Workington Town	20	4	0	16	320	555	8

Champions

Promoted

Relegated

Premiership

28 September 1997

Huddersfield Giants	18 – 0	Hull Sharks
Try: Davys, Bunyan, Cheetham Goal: Cook (3)	Report

Old Trafford, Manchester Referee/s: John Connolly (Wigan) Man of the Match: Craig Weston

See also

• 1997 Challenge Cup

References

External links

• "Season 1997". Virtual Rugby League Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 28 August 2008.
• 1997 season at wigan.rlfans.com