Rugby League: Champions ▾

Competition: Super League / British Champions ▾

Champion clubs are cross-checked against independently reported all-time title totals for every season below. Runner-up and score detail is confirmed for 1901–02 through 1972–73 (1945–46 and 1946–47 have a confirmed runner-up but no independently verified score) and every Super League Grand Final from 1998 onward; from 1973–74 the Championship reverted to a straight table-position decider with no final to score (Super League's own Grand Final didn't begin until 1998), so those rows show the champion only by design, not as a data gap. The League Leaders' Shield began in 2003 (Super League VIII) — there was no separate table-topper award in Super League I–VII (1996–2002). For a full season-by-season ladder and finals series for every Super League year (1996–present), see the Super League ladders hub; for full final-table standings in the pre-Super-League era, see the pre-Super League Championship ladders hub (currently the complete 1973–74 through 1995–96 table-position era, backfilling further back through the earlier knockout-playoff eras).

Season	Winner	Runner-up	Result	League Leaders' Shield
2025	Hull Kingston Rovers	Wigan Warriors	24-6 Hull KR's first-ever Super League title.	Hull Kingston Rovers
2024	Wigan Warriors	Hull Kingston Rovers	9-2	Wigan Warriors
2023	Wigan Warriors	Catalans Dragons	10-2	Wigan Warriors
2022	St Helens	Leeds Rhinos	24-12	St Helens
2021	St Helens	Catalans Dragons	12-10	Catalans Dragons
2020	St Helens	Wigan Warriors	8-4 Moved to the KCOM Stadium, Hull, and played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.	Wigan Warriors
2019	St Helens	Salford Red Devils	23-6	St Helens
2018	Wigan Warriors	Warrington Wolves	12-4	St Helens
2017	Leeds Rhinos	Castleford Tigers	24-6	Castleford Tigers
2016	Wigan Warriors	Warrington Wolves	12-6	Warrington Wolves
2015	Leeds Rhinos	Wigan Warriors	22-20	Leeds Rhinos
2014	St Helens	Wigan Warriors	14-6	St Helens
2013	Wigan Warriors	Warrington Wolves	30-16	Huddersfield Giants
2012	Leeds Rhinos	Warrington Wolves	26-18	Wigan Warriors
2011	Leeds Rhinos	St Helens	32-16	Warrington Wolves
2010	Wigan Warriors	St Helens	22-10	Wigan Warriors
2009	Leeds Rhinos	St Helens	18-10	Leeds Rhinos
2008	Leeds Rhinos	St Helens	24-16	St Helens
2007	Leeds Rhinos	St Helens	33-6	St Helens
2006	St Helens	Hull F.C.	26-4	St Helens
2005	Bradford Bulls	Leeds Rhinos	15-6	St Helens
2004	Leeds Rhinos	Bradford Bulls	16-8	Leeds Rhinos
2003	Bradford Bulls	Wigan Warriors	25-12	Bradford Bulls
2002	St Helens	Bradford Bulls	19-18
2001	Bradford Bulls	Wigan Warriors	37-6
2000	St Helens	Wigan Warriors	29-16
1999	St Helens	Bradford Bulls	8-6
1998	Wigan Warriors	Leeds Rhinos	10-4 First-ever Super League Grand Final, Old Trafford.
1997	Bradford Bulls		Super League II - table position, no Grand Final yet.
1996	St Helens		Super League I - table position, no Grand Final yet. (A separate knockout "Premiership" trophy, won by Wigan, is not the league championship.)
1995-96	Wigan		Table position, no playoff - the last First Division/RFL Championship season before Super League launched.
1994-95	Wigan		Table position, no playoff.
1993-94	Wigan		Table position, no playoff.
1992-93	Wigan		Table position, no playoff.
1991-92	Wigan		Table position, no playoff.
1990-91	Wigan		Table position, no playoff.
1989-90	Wigan		Table position, no playoff.
1988-89	Widnes		Table position, no playoff.
1987-88	Widnes		Table position, no playoff.
1986-87	Wigan		Table position, no playoff.
1985-86	Halifax		Table position, no playoff.
1984-85	Hull Kingston Rovers		Table position, no playoff.
1983-84	Hull Kingston Rovers		Table position, no playoff.
1982-83	Hull F.C.		Table position, no playoff.
1981-82	Leigh		Table position, no playoff.
1980-81	Bradford Northern		Table position, no playoff.
1979-80	Bradford Northern		Table position, no playoff.
1978-79	Hull Kingston Rovers		Table position, no playoff.
1977-78	Widnes		Table position, no playoff.
1976-77	Featherstone Rovers		Table position, no playoff.
1975-76	Salford		Table position, no playoff.
1974-75	St Helens		Table position, no playoff.
1973-74	Salford		Table position, no playoff (new First/Second Division structure introduced).
1972-73	Dewsbury	Leeds	22-13 Last season decided by a playoff final before a switch to straight table position; Super League's Grand Final didn't begin until 1998.
1971-72	Leeds	St Helens	9-5
1970-71	St Helens	Wigan	16-12
1969-70	St Helens	Leeds	24-12
1968-69	Leeds	Castleford	16-14
1967-68	Wakefield Trinity	Hull Kingston Rovers	17-10
1966-67	Wakefield Trinity	St Helens	21-9
1965-66	St Helens	Halifax	35-12
1964-65	Halifax	St Helens	15-7 New top-16 playoff format introduced this season.
1963-64	Swinton
1962-63	Swinton
1961-62	Huddersfield	Wakefield Trinity	14-5
1960-61	Leeds	Warrington	25-10
1959-60	Wigan	Wakefield Trinity	27-3
1958-59	St Helens	Hunslet	44-22
1957-58	Hull F.C.	Workington Town	20-3
1956-57	Oldham	Hull F.C.	15-14
1955-56	Hull F.C.	Halifax	10-9
1954-55	Warrington	Oldham	7-3
1953-54	Warrington	Halifax	8-7
1952-53	St Helens	Halifax	24-14
1951-52	Wigan	Bradford	13-6
1950-51	Workington Town	Warrington	26-11
1949-50	Wigan	Huddersfield	20-2
1948-49	Huddersfield	Warrington	13-12
1947-48	Warrington	Bradford	15-5
1946-47	Wigan	Dewsbury	13-4 Score confirmed 9 Sep 2026 via rugbyleagueproject.org, directly re-fetched by the assistant, closing a gap flagged in an earlier round this window.
1945-46	Wigan	Huddersfield	13-4 The first fully official Championship after WWII's suspension. Score confirmed 9 Sep 2026 via rugbyleagueproject.org, directly re-fetched by the assistant, closing a gap previously flagged as unverified.
1944-45	No unified champion WWII - no official Championship. Bradford Northern won the wartime final on the pitch (beat Halifax 26-20 on aggregate); same explicit "did not count as an official league championship" statement as 1943-44. Researched in detail 9 Sep 2026.
1943-44	No unified champion WWII - no official Championship. Wigan won the wartime final on the pitch (beat Dewsbury 25-14 on aggregate); Wikipedia states explicitly that "the Wartime Emergency League did not count as an official league championship." Researched in detail 9 Sep 2026.
1942-43	No unified champion WWII - no official Championship, and specifically VOIDED: Dewsbury won the wartime final on the pitch (beat Halifax 33-16 on aggregate) but an RFL committee ruling in July 1943 upheld a complaint that Dewsbury had fielded an ineligible player in their semi-final - the result was declared null and void and the club fined £100. This is a distinct, documented disciplinary reason, not just wartime non-recognition. Researched in detail 9 Sep 2026.
1941-42	No unified champion WWII - no official Championship. Yorkshire and Lancashire sections merged into one wartime division this season; Dewsbury topped the table and won the wartime final (beat Bradford Northern 13-0) but this is not recognised as an official title - confirmed independently via Dewsbury RLFC's own club honours page, which does not credit them with a 1941-42 championship despite the result on the pitch. Researched in detail 9 Sep 2026.
1940-41	No unified champion WWII - no official Championship (same regional Yorkshire/Lancashire split as 1939-40). A wartime final was played (Bradford Northern beat Wigan 45-15 on aggregate, retaining their unofficial regional title) but is not part of the officially recognised Championship lineage. Researched in detail 9 Sep 2026.
1939-40	No unified champion WWII - no official Championship (regional Yorkshire/Lancashire split, no single national division). A wartime final WAS played on the pitch (Bradford Northern beat Swinton 37-22 on aggregate over two legs) but this is not part of the officially recognised Championship lineage - confirmed via Wikipedia's master Championship Final results table, which shows an explicit gap for 1940-1944. Researched in detail 9 Sep 2026; not just an unexplained blank.
1938-39	Salford	Castleford	8-6
1937-38	Hunslet	Leeds	8-2
1936-37	Salford	Warrington	13-11
1935-36	Hull F.C.	Widnes	21-2
1934-35	Swinton	Warrington	14-3
1933-34	Wigan	Salford	15-3
1932-33	Salford	Swinton	15-5
1931-32	St Helens	Huddersfield	9-5
1930-31	Swinton	Leeds	14-7
1929-30	Huddersfield	Leeds	10-0
1928-29	Huddersfield	Leeds	2-0
1927-28	Swinton	Featherstone Rovers	11-0
1926-27	Swinton	St Helens Recreation	13-8
1925-26	Wigan	Warrington	22-10
1924-25	Hull Kingston Rovers	Swinton	9-5
1923-24	Batley	Wigan	13-7
1922-23	Hull Kingston Rovers	Huddersfield	15-5
1921-22	Wigan	Oldham	13-2
1920-21	Hull F.C.	Hull Kingston Rovers	16-14
1919-20	Hull F.C.	Huddersfield	3-2
1918-19	No unified champion WWI - Wartime Emergency League only, no official champion.
1917-18	No unified champion WWI - Wartime Emergency League only, no official champion.
1916-17	No unified champion WWI - Wartime Emergency League only, no official champion.
1915-16	No unified champion WWI - Wartime Emergency League only, no official champion.
1914-15	Huddersfield	Leeds	35-2 Known as the "Team of All the Talents."
1913-14	Salford	Huddersfield	5-3
1912-13	Huddersfield	Wigan	29-2
1911-12	Huddersfield	Wigan	13-5
1910-11	Oldham	Wigan	20-7
1909-10	Oldham	Wigan	13-7
1908-09	Wigan	Oldham	7-3
1907-08	Hunslet	Oldham	12-2 (replay, after a 7-7 draw) Part of Hunslet's famous "All Four Cups" season.
1906-07	Halifax	Oldham	18-3
1905-06	Leigh		Won on table position, decided by win percentage after clubs played an uneven number of games.
1904-05	Oldham		Won on table position (51 points to Bradford F.C.'s 48); no playoff.
1903-04	Bradford F.C.	Salford	5-0 A separate, now-defunct Bradford club - not the same lineage as Bradford Northern/Bradford Bulls.
1902-03	Halifax		Won on First Division table position, no playoff. Halifax also won the Challenge Cup the same season (beat Salford 7-0 at Headingley) - a genuine double, but a different trophy; the 7-0 score was previously and incorrectly recorded here as a league decider. Corrected 10 Sep 2026, see HANDOVER.md 13cd22.
1901-02	Broughton Rangers		Reunified into a single Northern Rugby Football League this season, won on table position, no playoff. Broughton Rangers also won the Challenge Cup the same season (beat Salford 25-0 at Rochdale) - a genuine double, but a different trophy; the 25-0 score was previously and incorrectly recorded here as a league decider. Corrected 10 Sep 2026, see HANDOVER.md 13cd22.
1900-01	No unified champion No unified champion this season. Lancashire Senior Competition: Oldham. Yorkshire Senior Competition: Bradford.
1899-1900	No unified champion No unified champion this season. Lancashire Senior Competition: Runcorn. Yorkshire Senior Competition: Bradford.
1898-99	No unified champion No unified champion this season. Lancashire Senior Competition: Broughton Rangers. Yorkshire Senior Competition: Batley.
1897-98	No unified champion No unified champion this season. Lancashire Senior Competition: Oldham. Yorkshire Senior Competition: Hunslet (won a 5-2 playoff over Bradford).
1896-97	No unified champion No unified champion this season - the Northern Union split into regional competitions. Lancashire Senior Competition: Broughton Rangers. Yorkshire Senior Competition: Brighouse Rangers.
1895-96	Manningham	Halifax	The Northern Union's only season as a single unified competition before it split into regional competitions the following year; won by a single point.

Also known as

• Stones Bitter Super League (1996–97)
• JJB Super League (1998–99)
• Tetley's Super League (2000–04)
• Engage Super League (2005–11)
• Stobart Super League (2012)
• First Utility Super League (2014–16)
• Betfred Super League (2017–present)

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