2010 RFL Championship
| Co-operative Championship 2010 | |
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The Co-operative Championship logo
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| League | Co-operative Championship |
| Duration | 22 Rounds (Followed by 4 round playoffs) |
| Teams | 11 |
| Highest attendance | 3,686 Widnes vs. Halifax (18 Mar) |
| Lowest attendance | 835 Sheffield vs. Dewsbury (19 Mar) |
| Average attendance | 1,771 
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| Attendance | 53,130
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| Broadcast partners | Sky Sports |
| 2010 Season | |
| Champions |
 Halifax
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| League leaders |
 Featherstone Rovers
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| Runners-up |
Halifax
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| Promotion and relegation | |
| Relegated to Championship 1 |
 Whitehaven Keighley Cougars
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The 2010 Rugby Football League Championship is known as Co-operative Championship due to sponsorship by The Co-operative Group.
The 2010 Co-operative Championship is a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in the United Kingdom and France one tier below the first tier Super League. The two worst performing teams during the season, with the exception of Toulouse Olympique, will be relegated to Championship 1.
There is no automatic promotion from this league to Super League, which uses a licensing system renewed every three years. Qualifying for the Grand Final or winning the Northern Rail Cup is a prerequisite for Championship clubs to be able to apply for license in the next round of applications for the 2012–14 period.
All of the teams in the 2010 Co-operative Championship will also compete in the 2010 Challenge Cup where they will enter in the third round. All of the teams, with the exception of Toulouse Olympique will compete in the 2010 Northern Rail Cup which starts before the Co-operative Championship with the finals held mid season.
Featherstone Rovers finished the league in first place after the regular season but were beaten by Halifax in the grand final 23-22
This competition features mostly the same teams as it did in 2009. The Dewsbury Rams and Keighley Cougars were promoted from the 2009 Championship One. The Leigh Centurions and Doncaster were meant to be relegated. However, the chairman of Gateshead Thunder wound up the club and they were reformed by the community. This breach of insolvency laws caused them to be relegated and allowed Leigh to stay in the Co-operative Championship.
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