1995–96 Rugby Football League season
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The 1995–96 Rugby Football League season was the 101st season of rugby league football. Eleven English teams competed from August 1995 until January 1996 for the Stones Bitter Centenary Championship. The season was kept brief to accommodate the first season of the forthcoming new Super League competition, which would see top-level rugby league in the UK changed to a summer sport. It was also punctuated by the 1995 World Cup which took place in Britain throughout October. The 1996 Challenge Cup rounds started immediately after the Centenary Championship and the final was played in summer, during Super League I.
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1995–96 Rugby Football League season | |
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League | Centenary Championship |
Duration | 20 Rounds |
Teams | First Division: 11 Second Division: 11 Third Division: 11 |
Highest attendance | 19,526 Wigan vs St. Helens (26 Dec 95) |
Lowest attendance | 761 London Broncos vs Sheffield Eagles (17 Dec 95) |
Broadcast partners | Sky Sports |
First Division | |
Champions | Wigan |
Top point-scorer(s) | Bobbie Goulding (285) |
Top try-scorer(s) | Martin Offiah (28) David Plange (28) |
New franchise | |
Awarded to | Paris Saint-Germain |
Second Division | |
Champions | Salford |
Third Division | |
Champions | Hull Kingston Rovers |
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