1989–90 Rugby Football League season

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1989–90 Rugby Football League season
Stones Bitter Championship
Number of teams 14
1989–90 Season
Champions File:Wigancolours.svg Wigan
Premiership winners File:Widnes colours.svg Widnes
Man of Steel File:Wigancolours.svg Shaun Edwards
Top try-scorer(s) File:Widnes colours.svg Martin Offiah 45
Promotion and relegation
Promoted from Second Division HKRcolours.svg Hull Kingston Rovers
File:Rochdale colours.svg Rochdale Hornets
Oldhamcolours.svg Oldham
Relegated to Second Division Leigh colours.svg Leigh
Redscolours.svg Salford
Barrowcolours.svg Barrow
Second Division
Champions HKRcolours.svg Hull Kingston Rovers
Top point-scorer(s) HKRcolours.svg Mike Fletcher 450
Top try-scorer(s) HKRcolours.svg Greg Austin 38
< 1988–89 Seasons 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 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.

Challenge Cup

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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

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Sources

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  2. ↑ Winners 1897 - present at carnegiechallengecup.co.uk
  3. ↑ Lance Todd Trophy Winners at therfl.co.uk
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