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| Betfred Championship 2018 | |
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| League | Championship |
| Duration | 23 rounds (followed by a league split into Super 8s for 7 more fixtures) |
| Teams | 12 |
| Highest attendance | 38,881  Toronto Wolfpack vs  Toulouse Olympique (19 May) |
| Lowest attendance | 312  Rochdale Hornets vs  London Broncos (13 April) |
| Broadcast partners | Sky Sports and Premier Sports for Toronto Games |
| 2018 season | |
| Biggest home win |  Featherstone Rovers 80–4 Rochdale Hornets (1 July) |
| Biggest away win |  Barrow Raiders 6–72 Toulouse Olympique (15 July)
Barrow Raiders 6–72 London Broncos (29 July) |
The 2018 Rugby Football League Championship is a rugby league football competition played primarily in the United Kingdom, one tier below the first tier Super League. The 2018 season is the fourth to consist of the Super 8s structure combining the Championship and Super League three-quarters of the way through the season.
The 2018 Championship features 12 teams, which all play one another twice in the regular season, once at home, and once away, totalling 22 games. The 2018 season also features the "Summer Bash Weekend" for a fourth time. This is a 23rd round of fixtures which replicates Super League's Magic Weekend concept for the Championship sides. After these 23 rounds in both the Championship and the Super League, the two divisions of twelve are split into three divisions of eight, the "Super 8s".
New sponsors for the league were announced in January 2018, and the league will be known as the Betfred Championship until the end of 2019. The bookmakers, Betfred, extended their sponsorship of rugby league to include the Championship and League 1 as well as Super League.[1]
- ^ "Betfred become title partner of Championship and League 1". Total RL. League Publications. 11 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2018.