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1989–90 Rugby Football League season

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Field	Value
title	1989–90 Rugby Football League season
league	Stones Bitter Championship
no_of_teams	14
attendance
season	1989–90 Season
season_champs	Wigan
season_champ_name	Champions
league_leaders
league_leaders_name
second_place
premiership_win	Widnes
premiership_win_name	Premiership winners
MVP	Shaun Edwards
MVP_link	Man of Steel Award
top try scorer	Martin Offiah 45
promote
promote_from	Second Division
relegate
relegate_to	Second Division
season2	Second Division
season_champs2	Hull Kingston Rovers
season_champ_name2	Champions
top_scorer2	Mike Fletcher 450
top try scorer2	Greg Austin 38
prevseason_link	1988–89 Rugby Football League season
prevseason_year	1988–89
nextseason_link	1990–91 Rugby Football League season
nextseason_year	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
2	Leeds	26	18	0	8	704	383	+321
3	Widnes	26	16	2	8	659	423	+236
4	Bradford Northern	26	17	0	9	614	416	+198
5	St. Helens	26	17	0	9	714	544	+170
6	Hull	26	16	1	9	577	400	+177
7	Castleford	26	16	0	10	703	448	+255
8	Warrington	26	13	1	12	424	451	-27
9	Wakefield Trinity	26	12	1	13	502	528	-26
10	Featherstone Rovers	26	10	0	16	479	652	-173
11	Sheffield Eagles	26	9	1	16	517	588	-71
12	Leigh	26	9	1	16	442	642	-200
13	Salford	26	4	1	21	421	699	-278
14	Barrow	26	1	0	25	201	1133	-932

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

Promoted

Challenge Cup

Main article: 1989–90 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. Andy Gregory, Wigan's scrum half, was awarded his second Lance Todd Trophy for being the man-of-the-match.

Regal Trophy

Main article: 1989–90 Regal Trophy

County cups

Main article: 1989–90 Lancashire Cup

Main article: 1989–90 Yorkshire Cup

Premiership

Main article: 1989–90 Rugby League Premiership

References

Sources

References

(1995). "Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996". Headline Book Publishing.
link. (2010-09-10 at carnegiechallengecup.co.uk)
[http://www.therfl.co.uk/history_of_the_sport/lance_todd_trophy_winners Lance Todd Trophy Winners] {{Webarchive. link. (2010-11-28 at therfl.co.uk)

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