1986–87 Rugby Football League season

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1986–87 Rugby Football League season
Stones Bitter Championship
1986–87 Season
Champions File:Wigancolours.svg Wigan
Premiership winners File:Wigancolours.svg Wigan
Man of Steel File:Wigancolours.svg Ellery Hanley
Top point-scorer(s) File:Saintscolours.svg Paul Loughlin 424
Top try-scorer(s) File:Wigancolours.svg Ellery Hanley 63
Promotion and relegation
Promoted from Second Division Hunsletcolours.svg Hunslet
Swintoncolours.svg Swinton
Haven colours.svg Whitehaven
Doncaster colours.svg Doncaster
Relegated to Second Division Oldhamcolours.svg Oldham
Fevcolours.svg Featherstone Rovers
Barrowcolours.svg Barrow
File:Wcatscolours.svg Wakefield Trinity
Second Division
Champions Hunsletcolours.svg Hunslet
Top try-scorer(s) Swintoncolours.svg Derek Bate 31
< 1985–86 Seasons 1987–88 >

The 1986–87 Rugby Football League season was the eighty-fourth season of rugby league football. Sixteen clubs competed for the Championship which was determined by League position.

Season summary

The Silk Cut Challenge Cup Winners were Halifax who beat St. Helens 19-18 in the final.

The John Player Special Trophy Winners were Wigan who beat Warrington 18-4 in the final.

The Stones Bitter Premiership Trophy Winners were Wigan who beat Warrington 8-0 in the final.

Wigan beat Oldham 27–6 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Castleford beat Hull 31–24 to win the Yorkshire Cup.

Championship

Stones Bitter League Champions were Wigan for the tenth time in their history, losing only two league games all season - both to Warrington. Oldham, Featherstone Rovers, Barrow and Wakefield Trinity were relegated. A one-off 'two-up, four-down' promotion was used to reduce the top division to 14 clubs.

Team Pld W D L PF PA Pts
1 16x16px Wigan 30 28 0 2 941 193 56
2 Saintscolours.png St Helens 30 20 1 9 835 465 41
3 Wolvescolours.png Warrington 30 20 1 9 728 464 41
4 16x16px Castleford 30 20 0 10 631 429 40
5 Faxcolours.svg Halifax 30 17 1 12 553 487 35
6 HKRcolours.png Hull Kingston Rovers 30 16 0 14 446 531 32
7 Bullscolours.svg Bradford Northern 30 15 1 14 555 550 31
8 16x16px Widnes 30 14 0 16 598 613 28
9 Redscolours.png Salford 30 14 0 16 509 656 28
10 Leigh colours.svg Leigh 30 13 1 16 549 610 27
11 Hullcolours.png Hull 30 13 1 16 538 650 27
12 16x16px Leeds 30 13 0 17 565 571 26
13 Oldhamcolours.svg Oldham 30 13 0 17 554 679 26
14 Fevcolours.svg Featherstone Rovers 30 8 1 21 498 776 17
15 Barrowcolours.svg Barrow 30 7 2 21 456 725 16
16 Wcatscolours.png Wakefield Trinity 30 4 1 25 386 943 9
  Champions   Play-offs   Relegated

Challenge Cup

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Wigan’s 10-8 defeat to Oldham in Round One this season, would be their last Challenge Cup defeat until February 1996.

Halifax and St Helens reached the final with 'Fax coming out victorious with a 19-18 win at Wembley before a crowd of 91,267.[1] A desperate tackle by Halifax's John Pendlebury was seen as instrumental in giving his side the victory,[2] which was their fifth in twelve Final appearances.

Halifax's Australian fullback, Graham Eadie, won the Lance Todd Trophy.

Second Division

A complicated fixture formula was introduced in the Second Division and continued until the 1991–92 season.[3] 2nd Division Champions were Hunslet, and Swinton were also promoted.

Team Pld W D L PF PA Pts
1 Hunslet 28 25 0 3 722 218 50
2 Swinton 28 23 1 4 713 323 47
3 Whitehaven 28 21 1 6 577 304 43
4 Doncaster 28 20 1 7 586 388 41
5 Rochdale Hornets 28 19 1 8 519 369 39
6 Sheffield Eagles 28 17 0 11 625 426 34
7 Bramley 28 16 0 12 407 440 32
8 Carlisle 28 15 1 12 463 446 31
9 Blackpool Borough 28 14 0 14 530 477 28
10 York 28 11 0 17 492 537 22
11 Runcorn Highfield 28 10 1 17 391 533 21
12 Fulham 28 8 2 18 461 632 18
13 Batley 28 9 0 19 335 528 18
14 Workington Town 28 9 0 19 405 652 18
15 Huddersfield Barracudas 28 8 0 20 456 673 16
16 Mansfield Marksman 28 8 0 20 366 592 16
17 Dewsbury 28 8 0 20 328 563 16
18 Keighley 28 7 0 21 366 641 14
  Champions   Play-offs   Promoted   Relegated

References

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Sources

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