| 2013 Championship 1 | |
|---|---|
| League | Championship 1 |
| Duration | 16 matches (over 18 rounds) |
| Teams | 9 |
| Highest attendance | 1,562 North Wales Crusaders v South Wales Scorpions (1 September 2013) |
| Lowest attendance | 103 Gloucestershire All Golds v London Skolars (28 July 2013) |
| Average attendance | 477 |
| Attendance | 33,374 |
| Broadcast partners | Premier Sports |
| 2013 Season | |
| Champions |  North Wales Crusaders |
| Playoff Winner |  Rochdale Hornets |
| Top point-scorer(s) |  Dylan Skee (176)[1] |
| Top try-scorer(s) | Rob Massam (18)[1] |
The 2013 Championship 1, known as the Kingstone Press Championship 1 for sponsorship reasons, was a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in England and Wales, the third tier of the sport in the country. The 2013 season will see three new teams enter the division alongside the six remaining teams that were not promoted during the 2012 season. Coventry, who had been considered for entry into the division for 2013, will enter the division in 2014. This means that the 2013 Championship 1 season will consist of 9 teams.[2]
The promotion/relegation positions and the play-off format also revert to the normal formats, following the change for the 2012 season to allow the top four teams to be promoted to the Rugby Football League Championship and the champions of the division to be decided by a six-team play-off.[3] This will mean two teams relegated from the 2013 RFL Championship and two teams promoted from Championship 1, which will be the team who finishes top of the league and winner of the play-offs. There is no relegation from this league as it is the lowest tier of professional rugby league.
All of the teams competed in the 2013 Challenge Cup and the 2013 National League Cup.
- ^ a b "Stats Centre". Love Rugby League. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
- ^ "Coventry Bears: Midlands amateur side targeted as semi-pro club". BBC Sport. 21 September 2012. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
- ^ "Championship 1 agree promotion criteria for 2012". Gateshead Thunder. Archived from the original on 18 February 2012. Retrieved 4 June 2012.