2009 Championship 1

Template:Use British English Template:Short description 2009 Championship 1 was a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in the United Kingdom, the third tier of the sport in the country. The winner of this league will be promoted to the Co-operative Championship. There is no relegation from this league as it is the lowest tier of professional rugby league in the UK.

2009 Structure

Championship 1
Team	2008 Season	Stadium	Capacity	City/Area
File:Blackpoolcolours.svg Blackpool Panthers	9th	Woodlands Memorial Ground	9,000	Lytham St Annes, Lancashire
File:Ramscolours.svg Dewsbury Rams	11th (National League One)	Crown Flatt	5,100	Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
File:Hunsletcolours.svg Hunslet Hawks	12th	South Leeds Stadium	4,000	Leeds, West Yorkshire
File:Cougscolours.svg Keighley Cougars	5th	Cougar Park	7,800	Keighley, West Yorkshire
File:Skolscolours.svg London Skolars	11th	New River Stadium	5,000	Haringey, London
File:Oldhamcolours.svg Oldham	3rd	Boundary Park	10,368	Oldham, Greater Manchester
File:Rochdale colours.svg Rochdale Hornets	7th	Spotland Stadium	10,249	Rochdale, Greater Manchester
File:Swintoncolours.svg Swinton Lions	10th	Park Lane	3,000	Swinton, Greater Manchester
File:Workingtoncolours.svg Workington Town	8th	Derwent Park	10,000	Workington, Cumbria
File:Yorkcolours.svg York City Knights	6th	Huntington Stadium	3,428	York, North Yorkshire

The Dewsbury Rams were easily the best team throughout the regular season. They won all their games and finished on top of the table, 12 points ahead of the second placed Keighley Cougars. The Rochdale Hornets were stripped of six competition points for going into administration and had to be reformed by local fans [1].

Table

Three points were awarded for a win, one point for a draw. Bonus points were awarded (one point per game) to losing teams where the margin of defeat was 13 points or less.

Position	Club	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Pts for	Pts agst	Pts diff	B.P.	Points
1	File:Ramscolours.svg Dewsbury Rams	18	18	0	0	760	233	537	0	54
2	File:Cougscolours.svg Keighley Cougars	18	13	0	5	539	415	124	3	42
3	File:Yorkcolours.svg York City Knights	18	12	0	6	589	360	229	4	40
4	File:Oldhamcolours.svg Oldham R.L.F.C.	18	10	1	7	618	449	169	4	35
5	File:Blackpoolcolours.svg Blackpool Panthers	18	9	1	8	565	456	76	5	33
6	File:Hunsletcolours.svg Hunslet Hawks	18	10	0	8	472	411	61	3	33
7	File:Swintoncolours.svg Swinton Lions	18	8	0	10	513	516	−3	3	27
8	File:Rochdale colours.svg Rochdale Hornets	18	6	0	12	500	557	−57	6	15(a)
9	File:Workingtoncolours.svg Workington Town	18	2	0	16	281	700	−419	5	11
10	File:Skolscolours.svg London Skolars	18	1	0	17	210	927	−717	2	5

a: Rochdale were docked 9 points for going into administration.

Play-offs

Championship 1 uses a top 6 play-off system.

Elimination semi-finals

Home	Score	Away	Match information
			Date and time	Venue	Referee	Attendance
Template:Leagueicon Blackpool Panthers	18–21	Template:Leagueicon Hunslet Hawks	13 September, 15:00 GMT	Woodlands Memorial Ground	Craig Halloran	543
Template:Leagueicon Oldham R.L.F.C.	31–26	Template:Leagueicon Swinton Lions	13 September, 15:00 GMT	Boundary Park	Matthew Thomasson	745

Qualification and elimination matches

Home	Score	Away	Match information
			Date and time	Venue	Referee	Attendance
Template:Leagueicon Keighley Cougars	32–18	File:Yorkcolours.svg York City Knights	20 September, 15:00 GMT	Cougar Park	Ronnie Laughton	1,501
Template:Leagueicon Oldham R.L.F.C.	54–30	Template:Leagueicon Hunslet Hawks	20 September, 15:00 GMT	Boundary Park	Jamie Leahy	801

Final qualifiers

Home	Score	Away	Match information
			Date and time	Venue	Referee	Attendance
File:Yorkcolours.svg York City Knights	14–44	Template:Leagueicon Oldham R.L.F.C.	27 September, 15:00 GMT	Huntington Stadium	Phil Bentham	1,164

Grand Final

Home	Score	Away	Match information
			Date and time	Venue	Referee	Attendance
Template:Leagueicon Keighley Cougars	28–26	Template:Leagueicon Oldham R.L.F.C.	4 October, 15:05 GMT	Halliwell Jones Stadium	Ronnie Laughton	11,398

2009 Attendances

	Team	Played	Highest	Lowest	Total	Average
1	File:Ramscolours.svg Dewsbury Rams	9	2,103	912	11,381	1,265
2	File:Yorkcolours.svg York City Knights	10	3,106	629	11,469	1,147
3	File:Cougscolours.svg Keighley Cougars	10	1,726	534	9,898	989
4	File:Oldhamcolours.svg Oldham R.L.F.C.	11	1,419	745	10,710	974
5	File:Rochdale colours.svg Rochdale Hornets	9	1,249	480	6,139	682
6	File:Hunsletcolours.svg Hunslet Hawks	9	1019	412	5,747	639
7	File:Blackpoolcolours.svg Blackpool Panthers	8	975	280	4,139	517
8	File:Swintoncolours.svg Swinton Lions	9	705	369	4,610	512
9	File:Workingtoncolours.svg Workington Town	6	693	353	3070	512
10	File:Skolscolours.svg London Skolars	9	1,156	215	4003	445
	Total	90	11,398	215	82,564	907

– Crowd figures could not be found for all games. – The final will be played at a neutral venue and thus will not be included in the averages of any team.

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See also

• Co-operative Championship
• 2009 Co-operative Championship
• RFL League 1