1993–94 Rugby Football League season
| Stones Bitter Championship | ||||
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| Duration | 30 Rounds | |||
| Number of teams | 16 | |||
| Broadcast partners |  Sky Sports |
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| 1993–94 Season | ||||
| Champions | File:Wigancolours.svg Wigan | |||
| Premiership winners | File:Wigancolours.svg Wigan | |||
| Man of Steel | File:Wolvescolours.svg Jonathan Davies | |||
| Promotion and relegation | ||||
| Promoted from Second Division |  Workington Town Doncaster |
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| Relegated to Second Division |  Hull Kingston Rovers Featherstone Rovers |
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| Second Division | ||||
| Champions | Workington Town |
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The 1993–94 Rugby Football League season was the 99th ever season of professional rugby league football in Britain. Sixteen teams competed from August 1993 until May 1994 for a number of titles, primarily the Stones Bitter Championship.
Contents
Season summary
- Stones Bitter League Champions: Wigan
- Silk Cut Challenge Cup Winners: Wigan (26-16 v Leeds)
- Stones Bitter Premiership Trophy Winners: Wigan (24-20 v Castleford)
- Regal Trophy Winners: Castleford (33-2 v Wigan)
- 2nd Division Champions: Workington Town
The 1994 Man of Steel Award for player of the season went to Warrington's Jonathan Davies.
This season saw the highest ever away victory in the league when Keighley Cougars beat Highfield 104-4 at the Rochdale Hornets ground on 23 April.
This was the first season since the 1905–06 inaugural season of the Lancashire Cup and Yorkshire Cup, except for the break for World War I and World War II (Lancashire Cup only), that the Lancashire Cup and Yorkshire Cup competitions had not taken place.
Stones Bitter Championship
Wigan, Bradford Northern and Warrington all finished the season on top of the ladder with 46 points, but Wigan's superior points differential saw them crowned League Champions for the fifth consecuive time. This earned them the right to travel to Australia at the close of the season and contest the 1994 World Club Challenge. Wigan defeated the Brisbane Broncos and confirmed their position as the dominant rugby league club of the year.
After finishing in second last and last place respectively, Hull Kingston Rovers and Leigh were demoted to the Second Division.
Championship Final Standings
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Second Division Final Standings[1]Second Division
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Challenge Cup
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The Silk Cut Challenge Cup final was played between Wigan and Leeds on a Saturday afternoon, 30 April 1994 at Wembley Stadium, before a crowd of 78,348. Bonnie Tyler lead the community singing at the match.[2] Wigan's Martin Offiah opened the scoring with a ninety-plus metre try, and went on to win the game 26–16.
References
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- 1993-94 Rugby Football League season at rlhalloffame.org.uk
- 1993-94 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.com
- Wigan's record Cup run at news.bbc.co.uk
- Great Britain Competitions 1993-1994 at hunterlink.net.au
- Championship 1993/94 at rugbyleagueproject.org
