The 2013 Rugby Football League Championship, which will be known as Kingstone Press Championship due to sponsorship by

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, is a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in the UK, one tier below the first tier

Super League The Super League (officially known as the Betfred Super League due to sponsorship from Betfred and legally known as Super League Europe), is the top-level of the British rugby league system. At present the league consists of twelve teams, of wh ...

. The 2013 season is the first season to consist of a 14-team division. This was achieved by scrapping relegation for the 2012 season and having four teams promoted from the Championship 1. Relegation to Championship 1 is restored for the 2013 but as in previous years, there is no automatic promotion from this league to Super League, which uses a licensing system renewed every three years. Qualifying for the Grand Final or winning the

Northern Rail Cup The Championship Cup, (known as the Northern Rail Cup for sponsorship reasons), and previously known as the National League Cup, was a rugby league football competition for clubs in the United Kingdom's Rugby League Championships. Although the F ...

is a prerequisite for Championship clubs to be able to apply for a licence in the next round of applications for the 2015–17 seasons. All of the teams in the 2013 Co-operative Championship will also compete in the

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where they will enter in the third round. All of the teams will also compete in the

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which starts before the Co-operative Championship with the finals held mid season.

Teams

This year's competition features the same 10 teams as it did in

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plus the top four teams from the

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season, which are

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Whitehaven Whitehaven is a town and port on the English north west coast and near to the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. Historically in Cumberland, it lies by road south-west of Carlisle and to the north of Barrow-in-Furness. It is th ...

and

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Season standings

Season results

The regular league season sees the 14 teams play each other twice (one home, one away) over 26 matches. The top eight teams at the end of the regular season goes through to the play-offs to determine the winners of the Championship.

References

External links

Official Website
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Teams

Season standings

Season results

See also

References

External links