1988–89 Rugby Football League season

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1988–89 Rugby Football League season
Stones Bitter Championship
Number of teams 14
1988–89 Season
Champions Widnes colours.svg Widnes
Premiership winners Widnes colours.svg Widnes
Man of Steel Wigancolours.svg Ellery Hanley
Top try-scorer(s) Widnes colours.svg Martin Offiah (Widnes) 60
Promotion and relegation
Promoted from Second Division Leigh colours.svg Leigh
Barrowcolours.svg Barrow
Sheffeagles colours.svg Sheffield Eagles
Relegated to Second Division Oldhamcolours.svg Oldham
Faxcolours.svg Halifax
HKRcolours.svg Hull Kingston Rovers
Second Division
Champions Leigh colours.svg Leigh
Top point-scorer(s) Sheffeagles colours.svg Mark Aston (Sheffield Eagles) 307
Top try-scorer(s) Leigh colours.svg Derek Bate (Leigh) 34
< 1987–88 Seasons 1989–90 >

The 1988–89 Rugby Football League season was the 94th ever season of professional rugby league football in Britain. Fourteen teams competed from August, 1988 until May, 1989 for the Stones Bitter Championship, Premiership Trophy and Silk Cut Challenge Cup.

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[edit] Season summary

Springfield Borough (previously Blackpool Borough) relocated were renamed Chorley Borough.

Wigan beat Salford 22–17 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Leeds beat Castleford 33–12 to win the Yorkshire Cup.

[edit] League Tables

[edit] Championship Final Standings

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 Widnes colours.svg Widnes 26 20 1 5 726 345 +381 41
2 Wigancolours.svg Wigan 26 19 0 7 543 434 +109 38
3 Rhinoscolours.svg Leeds 26 18 0 8 530 380 +150 36
4 Hullcolours.svg Hull 26 17 0 9 427 355 +72 34
5 Cascolours.png Castleford 26 15 2 9 601 480 +121 32
6 Fevcolours.svg Featherstone Rovers 26 13 1 12 482 545 -63 27
7 Saintscolours.png St Helens 26 12 1 13 513 529 -16 25
8 Bullscolours.svg Bradford Northern 26 11 1 14 545 518 +27 23
9 Wcatscolours.svg Wakefield Trinity 26 11 1 14 413 540 -37 23
10 Redscolours.svg Salford 26 11 0 15 469 526 -57 22
11 Wolvescolours.png Warrington 26 10 0 16 456 455 +1 20
12 Oldhamcolours.svg Oldham 26 8 1 17 462 632 -170 17
13 Faxcolours.svg Halifax 26 6 1 19 335 535 -200 13
14 HKRcolours.svg Hull Kingston Rovers 26 6 1 19 408 636 -228 13
Champions Relegated

[edit] Second Division Final Standings

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 Leigh 28 26 0 2 925 338 +587 52
2 Barrow 28 21 1 6 726 326 +400 43
3 Sheffield Eagles 28 19 1 8 669 362 +307 39
4 York 28 17 1 10 585 383 +202 35
5 Swinton 28 16 2 10 621 482 +139 34
6 Doncaster 28 17 0 11 599 464 +135 34
7 Whitehaven 28 15 2 11 522 378 +144 32
8 Keighley 28 16 0 12 551 525 +26 32
9 Rochdale Hornets 28 15 0 13 655 677 -22 30
10 Bramley 28 14 1 13 600 514 +86 29
11 Carlisle 28 14 1 13 512 441 +71 29
12 Batley 28 13 3 12 461 416 +45 29
13 Dewsbury 28 13 0 15 518 626 -108 26
14 Hunslet 28 12 1 15 473 540 -67 25
15 Fulham 28 10 0 18 464 650 -186 20
16 Chorley Borough 28 9 1 18 408 533 -125 19
17 Workington Town 28 9 1 18 365 549 -184 19
18 Huddersfield 28 9 1 18 400 615 -215 19
19 Mansfield Marksman 28 4 1 23 308 769 -461 9
20 Runcorn Highfield 28 2 1 25 224 998 -774 5
Promoted

[edit] Challenge Cup

Wigan defeated St Helens 27-0 in the Challenge Cup final at Wembley Stadium before a crowd of 78,000.[1] Ellery Hanley, Wigan's loose forward, was awarded the Lance Todd Trophy for his man-of-the-match performance.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Winners 1897 - present at carnegiechallengecup.co.uk
  2. ^ Lance Todd Trophy Winners at therfl.co.uk

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