[1] The Cougars went on to win all 20 matches and become only the fourth team in the European game to complete a perfect season.

[4] Overall Swinton's Dan Abram was the leading goal-scorer with 139 goals in the regular season and the play-offs.

[5] The Swinton Lions won the promotion play off final 16–10, to earn an immediate return to the Championship, after being relegated last season.

On 20 January 2022, The RFL confirmed that scrums would return to all competitions, having been suspended as part of the game's COVID-19 response in 2020 and 2021.

[8] Scrums are only being reintroduced for errors (knock-on, forward pass or accidental offside) in the first four tackles of a set.

Finally, injured players will be required to leave the pitch for treatment, if possible, following complaints that stoppages for injury spoil the speed and flow of the game.