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1994–95 Rugby Football League season

1994–95 Rugby Football League season
League Stones Bitter Championship
Duration 30 Rounds
Teams 16
Broadcast partners United Kingdom Sky Sports
1994–95 Season
Champions Wigancolours.svg Wigan
Premiership winners Wigancolours.svg Wigan
Man of Steel Wigancolours.svg Denis Betts
Top point-scorer(s) Wigancolours.svg Frano Botica (408)
Top try-scorer(s) Wigancolours.svg 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
Fevcolours.svg Featherstone Rovers
Redscolours.svg Salford
Wcatscolours.svg Wakefield Trinity
Widnes colours.svg Widnes
Hullcolours.svg Hull

Doncaster colours.svg Doncaster
Second Division
Champions Cougscolours.svg Keighley
Promotion and relegation
Relegated to new Second Division

HKRcolours.svg Hull Kingston Rovers
Ryedale-York

Hunsletcolours.svg Hunslet
Leigh colours.svg Leigh
Swintoncolours.svg Swinton
Bramley
Carlisle
Barrowcolours.svg Barrow
Highfield
Seasons
League RFL Championship
Duration 30 Matches
Teams 16
Champions Wigancolours.svg Wigan Warriors
Promotion and relegation
Relegated to
First Division:





Second Division:

Fevcolours.svg Featherstone Rovers
Redscolours.svg Salford
Wcatscolours.svg Wakefield Trinity
Widnes colours.svg Widnes
Hullcolours.svg Hull

Doncaster colours.svg Doncaster
League Second Division
Duration 30 Matches
Teams 16
Champions Cougscolours.svg Keighley
Elected to Championship Broncoscolours.png London Broncos

HKRcolours.svg Hull Kingston Rovers
Ryedale-York

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.


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