{"id":792182,"date":"2026-10-05T00:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T00:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792182\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T00:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T00:48:11","slug":"championship-grand-final-london-broncos-thrash-doncaster78-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792182\/","title":{"rendered":"Championship Grand Final: London Broncos thrash Doncaster78-6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Championship Grand Final<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">London Broncos (38) 78<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tries: Meadows 2, Hawkins, Tchamambe 2, Mathias, Wallis 2, Havili, Webster-Mansfield 2, O&#8217;Beirne, Voro, Bitungane Goals: Meadows 6, Voro 4, Smith<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Doncaster (0) 6<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tries: Johnson Goals: Robinson<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">London Broncos completed a second-tier treble by thrashing Doncaster in the Championship Grand Final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They had cruised to the League Leaders&#8217; Shield with a record of 23 wins and just one defeat from their 24 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That record, plus two comfortable play-off wins &#8211; including one over Doncaster &#8211; helped earn Broncos home advantage for the final at Cherry Red Records Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And they reinforced their dominance in a one-sided showpiece by running in 14 tries against their outmatched opponents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James Meadows scored two of their seven first half tries, while Neil Tchamambe, Elliot Wallis and Brandon Webster-Mansfield also claimed doubles in the rout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was the biggest winning margin in a Championship Grand Final, beating the 36-point mark set by Featherstone in 2011 and Wakefield in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Broncos also lifted the 1895 Cup &#8211; the annual knockout competition for second-tier sides &#8211; by beating Widnes Vikings 32-10 in the final in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They had already beaten Doncaster, who finished the regular season fourth in the table, four times this season in league and cup meetings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Winning the Championship is not automatically rewarded with promotion, however, since the rules around Super League eligibility were changed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Admission to the top flight is instead decided by club gradings based on a combination of on-field and off-field criteria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Super League side Broncos did apply for a top-flight spot for 2026, but their bid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cly24zvxw3no\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was unsuccessful<\/a> as York and Toulouse were awarded the two places available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Championship Grand Final London Broncos (38) 78 Tries: Meadows 2, Hawkins, Tchamambe 2, Mathias, Wallis 2, Havili, Webster-Mansfield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-792182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}