{"id":94609,"date":"2025-08-26T19:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/94609\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T19:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:08:13","slug":"rugby-league-fans-vote-on-how-clubs-should-be-organised-outside-super-league-in-2026-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/94609\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby league fans vote on how clubs should be organised outside Super League in 2026 \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/rugby-league-fans-vote-on-how-clubs-should-be-organised-outside-super-league-in-2026\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to Rugby league fans vote on how clubs should be organised outside Super League in 2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"675\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/jc_230409_102-675x360.jpg\" class=\"bestwp-post-thumbnail-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUGBY LEAGUE fans have been voting on how they think clubs outside of Super League should be organised for 2026 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the focus has been primarily on sorting out the Super League structure for next season \u2013 which of course will see the top flight expand to 14 teams \u2013 less has been said about the two tiers below.<\/p>\n<p>The Championship currently has 13 sides and League One just ten with two Championship sides set to make the ascension to Super League, it leaves just 11 in the second-tier.<\/p>\n<p>That has seen ideas be broached about potentially merging the two divisions and having subdivisions of east and west.<\/p>\n<p>League Express readers were asked, in a poll, about their opinion on the two leagues outside of Super League \u2013 here are the results.<\/p>\n<p>How should the clubs outside Super League be organised in 2026?<\/p>\n<p>they should retain the championship and league one, even with just 21 clubs \u2013 43.79%<\/p>\n<p>they should be merged into one league with a graded fixture list \u2013 25.94%<\/p>\n<p>they should be reorganised into two geographical conferences with some inter-conference fixtures \u2013 24.92%<\/p>\n<p>they should be reorganised into three conferences of seven clubs in each with some cross-conference fixtures \u2013 5.35%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RUGBY LEAGUE fans have been voting on how they think clubs outside of Super League should be organised&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-94609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94609","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=94609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}