Co-operative Championship 2011 | |
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League | Co-operative Championship |
Duration | 22 Rounds (Followed by 4 round playoffs) |
Teams | 10 |
Broadcast partners | Sky Sports |
2011 Season | |
Grand Final winners | Featherstone Rovers |
League leaders | Featherstone Rovers |
Top point-scorer(s) | Mick Nanyn (296) |
Top try-scorer(s) | Jamie Ellis, Mick Nanyn (22) |
The 2011 Rugby Football League Championship is known as Co-operative Championship due to sponsorship by The Co-operative Group.
The 2011 Co-operative Championship is a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in the UK and France one tier below the first tier Super League. The two worst performing teams during the season, with the exception of Toulouse Olympique, will be relegated to Championship 1.
There is no automatic promotion from this league to Super League, which uses a licensing system renewed every three years. Qualifying for the Grand Final or winning the Northern Rail Cup is a prerequisite for Championship clubs to be able to apply for a licence in the next round of applications for the 2012–14 period.
All of the teams in the 2011 Co-operative Championship will also compete in the 2011 Challenge Cup where they will enter in the third round. All of the teams will also compete in the 2011 National League Cup which starts before the Co-operative Championship with the finals held mid season.