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The 2015 Rugby Football League Championship, which will be known as Kingstone Press Championship due to sponsorship by Kingstone Press Cider, will be a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in the UK, one tier below the first tier Super League. The 2015 season is the first season to consist of a new structure combining the championship and super league divisions three quarters of the way through the season. The 2015 Championship will feature twelve teams, who will all play each other twice in the regular season, once at home, and once away, totalling 22 games. The 2015 season will also see for the first time the "Summer Bash Weekend", which will be played at Bloomfield Road, Blackpool. This is a 23rd round of fixtures which replicates the 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 8's". Following the split into the Super 8's, the top four teams in the Championship 2015 will join the bottom four teams of the Super League 2015 in "The Qualifiers". This group will see each team play each other once each, totalling seven extra games, with points reset to zero for the qualifiers. After 7 extra rounds the top 3 teams will earn a place in the Super League competition for 2016, thus either retaining or earning a place in the top competition. The teams finishing 4th and 5th in the qualifiers will play off in an extra fixture, at the home of 4th, for the final place in the 2016 Super League competition. The loser of this fixture, along with teams finishing 6th, 7th, and 8th in the qualifiers will either remain or be relegated and will play in the Championship in the 2016 season. Teams finishing after 23 rounds in between 5th and 12th in the Championship will play in the third of the three "Super 8" groups, "The Championship Shield". This will see each teams playing each other once more, but with points from the original season retained. Following the additional seven rounds a four team play off will take place pitching 1st vs 4th and 2nd vs 3rd, with the winners playing each other in the final to win the new "Championship Shield". The two teams finishing bottom the this group of eight will be relegated to the 2016 Kingstone Press League One, being replaced by two promoted teams from the 2015 League One competition. Relegation to League One is in place for the 2015 season, which will be the two bottom teams from "The Championship Shield" group after the split, with promotion to the Super League being available to teams finishing in the top four after 23 rounds. All of the teams in the 2015 Championship will also compete in the 2015 Challenge Cup, where they will enter in the third round. ==Teams== This year's competition features 12 teams, as opposed to the 14 seen in the previous year. The teams consist of nine of the 14 teams from 2014, the Play-off winner of the 2014 Championship 1 season, which are Hunslet Hawks, and the two sides relegated from 2014 Super League who are Bradford Bulls and London Broncos. Keighley Cougars, North Wales Crusaders, Rochdale Hornets, Swinton Lions, and Barrow Raiders who finished in the bottom five in 2015 were relegated into League One for 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2015 RFL Championship」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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