The 1996 Division Two Championship season was the third tier of British
rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...
during the 1996 season, and was also the first season of rugby league to be played in the summer.
The competition featured all eleven teams from the
1995–96 Rugby Football League season
The 1995–96 Rugby Football League season was the 101st season of rugby league football. Eleven English teams competed from August 1995 until January 1996 for the Stones Bitter Centenary Championship. The season was kept brief to accommodate the ...
and an additional newly formed club,
South Wales
South Wales ( cy, De Cymru) is a loosely defined region of Wales bordered by England to the east and mid Wales to the north. Generally considered to include the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, south Wales extends westwards ...
.
Championship
The league was won by
Hull Kingston Rovers for a second successive season, winning promotion to
Division One
The Football League First Division was a division of the Football League in England from 1888 until 2004. It was the top division in the English football league system from the season 1888–89 until 1991–92, a century in which the First ...
along with runners-up
Swinton Lions
The Swinton Lions are a professional rugby league club based in Swinton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in the Championship. The club has won the Championship six times and three Challenge Cups. Before 1996, the club was known s ...
.
League table
Statistics
The following are the top points scorers in Division Two during the 1996 season. Statistics are for league matches only.
Most tries
Most goals
Most points
See also
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Super League war
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1996 Challenge Cup
The 1996 Challenge Cup was the 95th staging of the Challenge Cup tournament. Known as the Silk Cut Challenge Cup due to sponsorship from Silk Cut, it was the first Challenge Cup of the summer era. The tournament featured 40 teams playing 42 games ...
References
External links
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1996 season at wigan.rlfans.com
{{1996 in rugby league
RFL League 1
RFL Division Two
RFL Division Two