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Kingstone Press Championship 2016
LeagueChampionship
Duration23 Rounds (Followed by a league split into "Super 8's" for 7 more fixtures.)
Teams12
Broadcast partnersSky Sports
2016 Season
Championship winners Leigh Centurions

The 2016 Rugby Football League Championship, which will be known as Kingstone Press Championship due to sponsorship by Kingstone Press Cider, will be a rugby league football competition played in the UK, one tier below the first tier Super League. The 2015 season is the second season to consist of a new structure combining the championship and super league divisions three quarters of the way through the season.

The 2016 Championship will feature twelve teams, who will all play each other twice in the regular season, once at home, and once away, totalling 22 games. The 2016 season will also see for the first time the "Summer Bash Weekend". This is a 23rd round of fixtures which replicates the Magic Weekend concept, for the Championship sides. After these 23 rounds in both the Championship and the Super League, the two divisions of twelve are split into three divisions of eight. The "Super 8's".

Following the split into the Super 8's, the top four teams in the Championship 2016 will join the bottom four teams of the Super League 2016 in "The Qualifiers". This group will see each team play each other once each, totalling seven extra games, with points reset to zero for the qualifiers. After 7 extra rounds the top 3 teams will earn a place in the Super League competition for 2017, thus either retaining or earning a place in the top competition. The teams finishing 4th and 5th in the qualifiers will play off in an extra fixture, at the home of 4th, for the final place in the 2017 Super League competition. The loser of this fixture, along with teams finishing 6th, 7th, and 8th in the qualifiers will either remain or be relegated and will play in the Championship in the 2016 season.

Teams finishing after 23 rounds in between 5th and 12th in the Championship will play in the third of the three "Super 8" groups, "The Championship Shield". This will see each teams playing each other once more, but with points from the original season retained. Following the additional seven rounds a four team play off will take place pitching 1st vs 4th and 2nd vs 3rd, with the winners playing each other in the final to win the new "Championship Shield". The two teams finishing bottom the this group of eight will be relegated to the 2017 Kingstone Press League One, being replaced by two promoted teams from the 2016 League One competition.

Relegation to League One is in place for the 2016 season, which will be the two bottom teams from "The Championship Shield" group after the split, with promotion to the Super League being available to teams finishing in the top four after 23 rounds. All of the teams in the 2016 Championship will also compete in the 2016 Challenge Cup, where they will enter in the third round.

Teams

This year's competition features 12 teams. The teams consist of ten of the 12 teams from 2015, the champion of the 2015 Championship 1 season, Oldham Roughyeds, and the champion of the Championship 1 playoffs, Swinton Lions. Doncaster RLFC and Hunslet Hawks, who finished in the bottom to in 2015 were relegated into League One for 2016.

Legend
  Reigning Champions
  Championship Shield Holders
  Promoted
  Relegated
Team & Current Season Stadium Capacity Standort
Batley Bulldogs Fox's Biscuits Stadium 7,500 Batley, West Yorkshire
Bradford Bulls Provident Stadium 27,000 Bradford, West Yorkshire
Dewsbury Rams Tetley's Stadium 5,800 Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Featherstone Rovers Bigfellas Stadium 8,000 Featherstone, West Yorkshire
Halifax RLFC The MBi Shay 14,000 Halifax, West Yorkshire
Leigh Centurions Leigh Sports Village 12,700 Leigh, Greater Manchester
London Broncos Ealing Trailfinders Rugby Club 3,176 Ealing, London
Oldham Roughyeds Bower Fold 6,500 Stalybridge, Greater Manchester
Sheffield Eagles SHU Sports Park 3,000 Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Swinton Lions Park Lane 3,000 Whitefield, Greater Manchester
Whitehaven RLFC Recreation Ground 7,500 Whitehaven, Cumbria
Workington Town Zebra Claims Stadium 10,000 Workington, Cumbria
2016 RFL Championship is located in England
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester
London
Sheffield
Whitehaven
Workington
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Locations of the 2016 RFL Championship teams
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Locations of the 2016 RFL Championship teams in West Yorkshire
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Locations of the 2016 RFL Championship teams in Greater Manchester

Table

Pos Club P W D L For Agst Diff Points Qualification
1 Leigh Centurions (C) 21 19 1 1 789 380 409 39 The Qualifiers
2 London Broncos (Q) 21 16 0 5 641 391 250 32
3 Halifax RLFC 21 13 1 7 573 419 154 27
4 Batley Bulldogs 21 13 1 7 496 441 55 27
5 Bradford Bulls 21 12 2 7 673 414 259 26 Championship Shield
6 Featherstone Rovers 21 13 0 8 551 364 187 26
7 Swinton Lions (F) 21 7 1 13 409 717 -308 15
8 Sheffield Eagles (F) 21 7 0 14 521 569 -48 14
9 Dewsbury Rams (F) 21 7 0 14 452 529 -77 14
10 Oldham Roughyeds (F) 21 7 0 14 359 602 -243 14
11 Whitehaven RLFC (F) 21 5 1 15 325 658 -333 11
12 Workington Town (F) 21 3 1 17 393 698 -305 7

C = Champions

Q = Qualified for The Qualifiers

F = Unable to qualify for the Qualifiers

See also

References

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