2009 Championship 1

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

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 .

Table

Three points were awarded for a win, one point for a draw. Bonus points were awarded 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		Points
1	16px Dewsbury Rams	18	18	0	0	760	233	537	0	54
2	16px Keighley Cougars	18	13	0	5	539	415	124	3	42
3	16px York City Knights	18	12	0	6	589	360	229	4	40
4	16px Oldham R.L.F.C.	18	10	1	7	618	449	169	4	35
5	16px Blackpool Panthers	18	9	1	8	565	456	76	5	33
6	16px Hunslet Hawks	18	10	0	8	472	411	61	3	33
7	16px Swinton Lions	18	8	0	10	513	516	−3	3	27
8	16px Rochdale Hornets	18	6	0	12	500	557	−57	6	15
9	16px Workington Town	18	2	0	16	281	700	−419	5	11
10	16px 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

Qualification and elimination matches

Final qualifiers

Grand Final

2009 Attendances

	Team	Played	Highest	Lowest	Total	Average
1	20px Dewsbury Rams	9	2,103	912	11,381	1,265
2	20px York City Knights	10	3,106	629	11,469	1,147
3	20px Keighley Cougars	10	1,726	534	9,898	989
4	20px Oldham R.L.F.C.	11	1,419	745	10,710	974
5	20px Rochdale Hornets	9	1,249	480	6,139	682
6	20px Hunslet Hawks	9	1019	412	5,747	639
7	20px Blackpool Panthers	8	975	280	4,139	517
8	20px Swinton Lions	9	705	369	4,610	512
9	20px Workington Town	6	693	353	3070	512
10	20px 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.