The team finishing top of the Super 8s won automatic promotion to the 2018 Championship and named league champions for 2017.

The league title was won by Toronto who only dropped three points all season (a defeat to York and a draw with Keighley in the Super 8s) and had a 100% winning record at home.

Whitehaven put a run of 12 straight wins together while Barrow who had been second for a long time lost two games towards the end of the season.

The last two places in the Super 8s were contested right up until the last fixture of the season with five clubs; Workington, Keighley, North Wales Crusaders, Hunslet and London Skolars all in contention.

Barrow Raiders, Whitehaven, York City Knights and Newcastle Thunder made the play off semi-finals.

At the Kingstone Press Championship & League 1 awards, Toronto captain Craig Hall was named League 1 player of the year with the young player award going to Lewis Young of Newcastle Thunder while Carl Forster of Whitehaven was named coach of the year.