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The 2024 RFL Championship, (officially known as the Betfred Championship for sponsorship reasons), was a professional rugby league club competition. The second tier of the British rugby league system comprises 14 clubs – 13 from England and one from France.
The fixture list for the 2024 RFL Championship was issued on 3 December 2023. [1] The regular season comprised 26 rounds to be followed by the play-offs. All times, including matches played in France, are UK local time (UTC±00:00 until 31 March 2024, UTC+01:00 thereafter).
Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts Qualification 1 Wakefield Trinity: 26 25 0 1 1010 262 +748 50 Semi-finals 2 Toulouse Olympique: 26 18 1 7 782 384 +398 37 3
The Rugby Football League Championship, (known as the Betfred Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the second highest division of rugby league in Britain (with one team in the league also being based in France) after the Super League. [2] Introduced in 2003 as National League One, it replaced the existing Second Division.
The league had increased in size from 2024 with 11 teams competing, up from nine in 2024. At the end of the 2024 season Dewsbury Rams, Swinton Lions and Whitehaven were relegated from the Championship replacing Oldham and Hunslet who won promotion. Goole Vikings were admitted to the league, the first new team since Cornwall in 2022.
In March 2024 the RFL completed the review and announced that the first steps will be taken to equalise the number of teams in the Championship and League One at 12 each by the start of the 2026 season. At the end of 2024 the Championship would reduce in size to 13 for 2025 while League One would increase to 10 in 2025.
Following a review of the league structure below Super League, the RFL announced that by the start of the 2026 season, the Championship and League 1 would be equalised in size at 12 teams each. In March 2024 the RFL completed the review and announced that the first steps will be taken to equalise the number of teams in the Championship and ...
The 2024 RFL Women's Championship (also known as the Betfred Women's Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the eighth season of the RFL Women's Championship and the first of its restructure and expansion to include teams from across the country. The competition was split into three regional leagues: Northern, Midlands, and Southern.