1989–90 Rugby Football League season

1989–90 Rugby Football League season
1989–90 Rugby Football League season
League	Stones Bitter Championship
Teams	14
1989–90 Season
Champions	Wigan
Premiership winners	Widnes
Man of Steel Award	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
	← 1988–89 1990–91 →

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 County Cup, and Bradford Northern beat Featherstone Rovers 20–14 to win the Yorkshire County 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	26	20	0	6	699	349	+350	40
2	Leeds	26	18	0	8	704	383	+321	36
3	Widnes	26	16	2	8	659	423	+236	34
4	Bradford Northern	26	17	0	9	614	416	+198	34
5	St. Helens	26	17	0	9	714	544	+170	34
6	Hull	26	16	1	9	577	400	+177	34
7	Castleford	26	16	0	10	703	448	+255	32
8	Warrington	26	13	1	12	424	451	-27	27
9	Wakefield Trinity	26	12	1	13	502	528	-26	25
10	Featherstone Rovers	26	10	0	16	479	652	-173	20
11	Sheffield Eagles	26	9	1	16	517	588	-71	19
12	Leigh	26	9	1	16	442	642	-200	19
13	Salford	26	4	1	21	421	699	-278	9
14	Barrow	26	1	0	25	201	1133	-932	2

Champions	Relegated

Second Division Final Standings

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Hull Kingston Rovers	28	25	0	3	1102	190	912	50
2	Rochdale Hornets	28	24	0	4	977	422	555	48
3	Oldham	28	24	0	4	879	325	554	48
4	Ryedale-York	28	20	1	7	653	338	315	41
5	Halifax	28	20	0	8	741	360	381	40
6	Swinton	28	20	0	8	673	405	268	40
7	Dewsbury	28	19	1	8	503	411	92	39
8	Fulham	28	16	2	10	496	488	8	34
9	Doncaster	28	15	2	11	533	399	134	32
10	Trafford Borough	28	15	0	13	551	551	0	30
11	Huddersfield	28	14	0	14	469	441	28	28
12	Batley	28	13	0	15	466	478	-12	26
13	Bramley	28	11	0	17	413	623	-210	22
14	Hunslet	28	10	0	18	431	585	-154	20
15	Chorley Borough	28	10	0	18	399	618	-219	20
16	Whitehaven	28	10	0	18	396	710	-314	20
17	Carlisle	28	9	0	19	511	625	-114	18
18	Workington Town	28	6	0	22	311	708	-397	12
19	Keighley	28	6	0	22	436	837	-401	12
20	Nottingham City	28	4	0	24	323	1032	-709	8
21	Runcorn Highfield	28	0	0	28	218	935	-717	0

Promoted

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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]

Regal Trophy

County cups

Premiership

References

^ Raymond Fletcher; David Howes (1995). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996. London: Headline Book Publishing. p. 299. ISBN 0-7472-7817-2.
^ Winners 1897 - present Archived 2010-09-10 at the Wayback Machine at carnegiechallengecup.co.uk
^ Lance Todd Trophy Winners Archived 2010-11-28 at the Wayback Machine at therfl.co.uk

Sources

[Tables-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 Archived 2010-09-10 at the Wayback Machine at carnegiechallengecup.co.uk

[3] Lance Todd Trophy Winners Archived 2010-11-28 at the Wayback Machine at therfl.co.uk

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