| Co-operative Championship 2011 | |
| League: | Co-operative Championship |
| Pixels: | 216px |
| Duration: | 22 Rounds (Followed by 4 round playoffs) |
| No Of Teams: | 10 |
| Tv: | Sky Sports |
| Season: | 2011 Season |
| Season Champs: | Featherstone Rovers |
| Season Champ Name: | Grand Final winners |
| League Leaders: | Featherstone Rovers |
| League Leaders Name: | League leaders |
| Top Scorer: | Mick Nanyn (296) |
| Top Try Scorer: | Jamie Ellis, Mick Nanyn (22) |
| Relegate To: | Championship 1 |
| Prevseason Link: | 2010 RFL Championship |
| Prevseason Year: | 2010 |
| Nextseason Link: | 2012 RFL Championship |
| Nextseason Year: | 2012 |
The 2011 Rugby Football League Championship is known as Co-operative Championship due to sponsorship by The Co-operative Group.
The 2011 Co-operative Championship is a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in the UK and France one tier below the first tier Super League. The two worst performing teams during the season, with the exception of Toulouse Olympique, will be relegated to Championship 1.
There is no automatic promotion from this league to Super League, which uses a licensing system renewed every three years. Qualifying for the Grand Final or winning the Northern Rail Cup is a prerequisite for Championship clubs to be able to apply for a licence in the next round of applications for the 2012–14 period.
All of the teams in the 2011 Co-operative Championship will also compete in the 2011 Challenge Cup where they will enter in the third round. All of the teams will also compete in the 2011 National League Cup which starts before the Co-operative Championship with the finals held mid season.
This competition features mostly the same teams as it did in 2010. The Hunslet Hawks and York City Knights were promoted from the 2010 Championship 1 while the Keighley Cougars and Whitehaven were relegated.
| Legend | ||
|---|---|---|
| Reigning champions | ||
| Defending Northern Rail Cup Champions | ||
| Promoted | ||
| Team & Current Season | Stadium | Capacity | Location | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barrow Raiders | Craven Park | 7,600 | Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria | ||
| Batley Bulldogs | Mount Pleasant | 6,000 | Batley, West Yorkshire | ||
| Dewsbury Rams | Tetley's Stadium | 3,500 | Dewsbury, West Yorkshire | ||
| Featherstone Rovers | Bigfellas Stadium | 6,750 | Featherstone, West Yorkshire | ||
| Halifax | The Shay Stadium | 6,561 | Halifax, West Yorkshire | ||
| Hunslet Hawks | South Leeds Stadium | 4,000 | Leeds, West Yorkshire | ||
| Leigh Centurions | Leigh Sports Village | 12,700 | Leigh, Greater Manchester | ||
| Sheffield Eagles | Bramall Lane | 32,702 | Sheffield, South Yorkshire | ||
| Stade des Minimes | 4,066 | Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, France | |||
| Stobart Stadium Halton | 13,500 | Widnes, Cheshire | |||
| York City Knights | Huntington Stadium | 3,428 | York, North Yorkshire |
| 2011 Co-operative Championship | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | ||||||||||
| 1 | Featherstone Rovers | 20 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 840 | 348 | +492 | 0 | 56 |
| 2 | Leigh Centurions | 20 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 776 | 368 | +408 | 1 | 53 |
| 3 | Batley Bulldogs | 20 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 498 | 406 | +92 | 0 | 41 |
| 4 | Sheffield Eagles | 20 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 577 | 488 | +89 | 0 | 39 |
| 5 | Widnes Vikings | 20 | 11 | 1 | 8 | 555 | 532 | +23 | 0 | 38 |
| 6 | Halifax | 20 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 569 | 543 | +26 | 1 | 36 |
| 7 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 395 | 630 | -235 | 3 | 20 | |
| 8 | York City Knights | 20 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 416 | 788 | -372 | 3 | 19 |
| 9 | Dewsbury Rams | 20 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 413 | 618 | −205 | 0 | 18 |
| 10 | Toulouse Olympique(R) | 20 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 358 | 663 | −305 | 0 | 15 |
| 11 | Barrow Raiders (R) | 20 | 9 | 0 | 11 | 527 | 540 | -13 | 1 | 0 |
| Teams qualifying for the Play-offs | ||
| Teams in relegation position |
See main article: 2011 RFL Championship Results.
Elimination play-offsQualifying semi-finalElimination semi-finalElimination finalGrand Final
The following are the top points scorers in the Championship during the 2011 season. Statistics also include tries and goals scored in the play-offs.[1] Most tries
| Player | Team | Tries | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | |||
| 22 | |||
| Andy Ballard | 20 | ||
| 20 | |||
| 18 | |||
| 17 | |||
| Martyn Ridyard | 17 | ||
| 17 | |||
| 16 | |||
| 15 |
| Player | Team | Goals | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 115 | |||
| 104 | |||
| Simon Brown | 95 | ||
| 69 | |||
| 65 | |||
| 63 | |||
| 59 | |||
| Darren Nicholls | 40 | ||
| 39 | |||
| Pat Walker | 29 |
Most points
| Player | Team | Tries | Goals | DGs | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 104 | 0 | 296 | |||
| 14 | 115 | 1 | 287 | |||
| Simon Brown | 2 | 95 | 1 | 199 | ||
| 12 | 69 | 0 | 186 | |||
| 6 | 65 | 0 | 154 | |||
| 6 | 63 | 1 | 151 | |||
| Batley Bulldogs | 4 | 59 | 0 | 134 | ||
| Darren Nicholls | 13 | 40 | 0 | 132 | ||
| 6 | 39 | 1 | 103 | |||
| 22 | 7 | 0 | 102 |