1994–95 Rugby Football League season | |
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League | Stones Bitter Championship |
Duration | 30 Rounds |
Teams | 16 |
Broadcast partners | Sky Sports |
1994–95 Season | |
Champions | Wigan |
Premiership winners | Wigan |
Man of Steel | Denis Betts |
Top point-scorer(s) | Frano Botica (408) |
Top try-scorer(s) | Martin Offiah (53) |
Selected for promotion to Championship | |
Elevated from Second Division | London Broncos |
Promotion and relegation | |
Relegated to new First Division Relegated to new Second Division |
Featherstone Rovers Salford Wakefield Trinity Widnes Hull Doncaster |
Second Division | |
Champions | Keighley |
Promotion and relegation | |
Relegated to new Second Division |
Hull Kingston Rovers Leigh Swinton Bramley Carlisle Barrow Highfield |
League | RFL Championship |
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Duration | 30 Matches |
Teams | 16 |
Champions | Wigan Warriors |
Promotion and relegation | |
Relegated to First Division: Second Division: |
Featherstone Rovers Salford Wakefield Trinity Widnes Hull Doncaster |
League | Second Division |
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Duration | 30 Matches |
Teams | 16 |
Champions | Keighley |
Elected to Championship | London Broncos |
Hull Kingston Rovers
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The 1994–95 Rugby Football League season was the 100th ever season of professional rugby league football in Britain. Sixteen teams competed from August 1994 until May 1995 for a number of titles, primarily the Stones Bitter Championship.
The summer Super League concept was agreed to commence in 1996.
The record for most points scored by one team in a match was broken by Huddersfield when they clocked up 142 against Blackpool Gladiators' 4 in a Regal Trophy match on 26 November 1994. This is also the record for widest margin.
The 1995 Man of Steel Award for the player of the season went to Wigan's Denis Betts. Wigan also set a new record for most points in all matches in one season with 1,735 from 45 matches as follows:
The following rule changes were introduced this season by the referees' coaching director, Greg McCallum:
Leeds' Gary Mercer (dangerous throw), Sheffield Eagles' Paul Broadbent and Doncaster's Gordon Lynch (tripping) became the first players cited under the reporting system to be found to have a case to answer.