Tremendous League’s 12 present golf equipment have voted to broaden the competitors to 14 groups from subsequent season.
In a press release, the league stated the growth would happen by combining the membership grading system with an impartial panel.
The panel is to be chaired by Lord Jonathan Caine, who was not too long ago elected to the RFL’s board, in addition to the strategic evaluation sub-committee.
The highest 12 golf equipment beneath the grading system on the finish of 2025 can be joined by two golf equipment really helpful by the panel “offered there are two functions of adequate advantage towards the set standards”.
It will likely be the primary time since 2014 that the league could have operated with 14 groups, having dipped all the way down to 12 for the 2015 marketing campaign.
The choice to broaden was made, external following a gathering of member golf equipment at Headingley on Monday.
Golf equipment have been graded beneath media big IMG and Rugby League Industrial’s ‘Reimagining Rugby League’ initiative up to now two seasons, however solely 2025’s league construction has been determined by its standards, which noticed London changed by Wakefield within the prime flight for this time period.
Below the system, Tremendous League, Championship and League One golf equipment are assessed primarily based on factors calculated by on and off-field efficiency with a view to resolve who will make up the highest flight, moderately than promotion and relegation between the divisions.
