The 2014 Championship 1, known as the Kingstone Press Championship 1 for sponsorship reasons, was a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in England, the third tier of the sport in the country.
The competition features the seven teams that did not win promotion at the end of 2012 Championship 1: Gateshead Thunder, Gloucestershire All Golds, Hemel Stags, London Skolars, Oldham, Oxford Rugby League and South Wales Scorpions.
The two new teams to the division for 2014 are Hunslet Hawks and York City Knights, who were relegated from the RFL Championship.
The regular league season sees the 9 teams play each other twice (one home, one away) over 18 matches.
[2] At the end of the season, five teams will contest a playoff for a place in the new Championship structure.