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1992–93 Rugby Football League season

1992–93 Rugby Football League season
League Stones Bitter Championship
Duration 26 Rounds
Teams 14
Broadcast partners United Kingdom Sky Sports
1992–93 Season
Champions Wigancolours.svg Wigan
Premiership winners Saintscolours.svg St. Helens
Man of Steel Wigancolours.svg Andy Platt
Promotion and relegation
Promoted from Second Division Fevcolours.svg Featherstone Rovers
Oldhamcolours.svg Oldham
Relegated to Second Division No Relegations league expanded to 16
Second Division
Champions Fevcolours.svg Featherstone Rovers
Third Division
Champions Cougscolours.svg Keighley Cougars
Third Division discontinued
Joined Second Division Cougscolours.svg Keighley Cougars
Workingtoncolours.svg Workington Town
Ramscolours.svg Dewsbury
Ryedale-York
Haven colours.svg Whitehaven
Batley colours.svg Batley
Doncaster colours.svg Doncaster
Hunsletcolours.svg Hunslet
Highfield
Barrowcolours.svg Barrow
Relegated to
National Conference League
Blackpoolcolours.svg Chorley Borough
Blackpool Gladiators
Nottingham City
Seasons

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.

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 1992 Lancashire Cup, and Wakefield Trinity beat Sheffield Eagles 29–16 to win the Yorkshire County 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.

Second Division Final Standings

Third Division Final Standings

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. The winner of the Lance Todd Trophy was Wigan's Dean Bell.


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