1989–90 Rugby Football League season

1989–90 Rugby Football League season
Stones Bitter Championship
Number of teams 14
1989–90 Season
Champions Wigan
Premiership winners Widnes
Man of Steel Shaun Edwards
Top try-scorer(s) Martin Offiah 45
Promotion and relegation
Promoted from Second Division Hull Kingston Rovers
Rochdale Hornets
Oldham
Relegated to Second Division Leigh
Salford
Barrow
Second Division
Champions Hull Kingston Rovers
Top point-scorer(s) Mike Fletcher 450
Top try-scorer(s) Greg Austin 38
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The 1989–90 Rugby Football League season was the 95th ever season of professional rugby league football in Britain. Fourteen teams competed from August, 1989 until May, 1990 for the Stones Bitter Championship, Premiership Trophy and Silk Cut Challenge Cup.

Season summary

Warrington beat Oldham 24–16 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Bradford Northern beat Featherstone Rovers 20–14 to win the Yorkshire Cup.

League Tables

Runcorn Highfield became only the second peacetime team in the history of the Rugby Football League to lose every game, and the first since Liverpool City in 1906-1907.

Championship Final Standings

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 Wigan 262006699349+35040
2 Leeds 261808704383+32136
3 Widnes 261628659423+23634
4 Bradford Northern 261709614416+19834
5 St Helens 261709714544+17034
6 Hull 261619577400+17734
7 Castleford 2616010703448+25532
8 Warrington 2613112424451-2727
9 Wakefield Trinity 2612113502528-2625
10 Featherstone Rovers 2610016479652-17320
11 Sheffield Eagles 269116517588-7119
12 Leigh 269116442642-20019
13 Salford 264121421699-2789
14 Barrow 2610252011133-9322
Champions Relegated

Second Division Final Standings[1]

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1Hull Kingston Rovers 282503110219091250
2Rochdale Hornets 28240497742255548
3Oldham 28240487932555448
4Ryedale-York 28201765333831541
5Halifax 28200874136038140
6Swinton 28200867340526840
7Dewsbury 2819185034119239
8Fulham 2816210496488834
9Doncaster 281521153339913432
10Trafford Borough 2815013551551030
11Huddersfield 28140144694412828
12Batley 2813015466478-1226
13Bramley 2811017413623-21022
14Hunslet 2810018431585-15420
15Chorley Borough 2810018399618-21920
16Whitehaven 2810018396710-31420
17Carlisle 289019511625-11418
18Workington Town 286022311708-39712
19Keighley 286022436837-40112
20Nottingham City 2840243231032-7098
21Runcorn Highfield 280028218935-7170
Promoted

Challenge Cup

Main article: 1990 Challenge Cup

Wigan defeated Warrington 36-14 in the Challenge Cup final at Wembley Stadium on Saturday 28 April 1990 before a crowd of 77,729.[2] Andy Gregory, Wigan's scrum half, was awarded his second Lance Todd Trophy for being the man-of-the-match.[3]

References

  1. Raymond Fletcher; David Howes (1995). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996. London: Headline Book Publishing. p. 299. ISBN 0-7472-7817-2.
  2. Winners 1897 - present at carnegiechallengecup.co.uk
  3. Lance Todd Trophy Winners at therfl.co.uk

Sources

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