1992–93 Rugby Football League season | |
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League | Stones Bitter Championship |
Duration | 26 Rounds |
Teams | 14 |
Broadcast partners | Sky Sports |
1992–93 Season | |
Champions | Wigan |
Premiership winners | St. Helens |
Man of Steel | Andy Platt |
Promotion and relegation | |
Promoted from Second Division |
Featherstone Rovers Oldham |
Relegated to Second Division | No Relegations league expanded to 16 |
Second Division | |
Champions | Featherstone Rovers |
Third Division | |
Champions | Keighley Cougars |
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 |
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.