Premiership 2000

The Premiership 2000 (referred to as the Northern Ford Premiership for sponsorship reasons) was the fifth season of the English rugby league . The first place in the table after the end of the regular season occupied the Dewsbury Rams , who won in the final 13:12 against the Leigh Centurions . The Widnes Vikings were inducted into the Super League .

table

Playoff participation

	team	Games	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Game points	Diff.	Table points
01.	Dewsbury Rams	28	22nd	1	5	848: 400	+ 484	45
02.	Keighley Cougars	28	22nd	0	6th	1002: 401	+ 701	44
03.	Doncaster Dragons	28	21st	0	7th	880: 397	+ 483	42
04th	Leigh Centurions	28	21st	0	7th	854: 476	+ 378	42
05.	Featherstone Rovers	28	20th	1	7th	795: 523	+ 272	41
06th	Oldham Roughyeds	28	19th	1	8th	734: 513	+ 221	39
07th	Hull Kingston Rovers	28	17th	1	10	583: 481	+ 102	35
08th.	Widnes Vikings	28	17th	0	11	698: 483	+ 215	34
09.	Swinton Lions	28	13	2	13	726: 733	- 7th	28
10.	Barrow Raiders	28	14th	0	14th	647: 711	- 64	28
11.	Whitehaven Warriors	28	11	1	16	533: 674	- 141	23
12.	Workington Town	28	11	1	16	502: 776	- 274	23
13.	Rochdale Hornets	28	10	0	18th	563: 696	- 133	20th
14th	Sheffield Eagles	28	9	1	18th	479: 585	- 106	19th
15th	Hunslet Hawks	28	8th	0	20th	487: 678	- 191	16
16.	Batley Bulldogs	28	6th	0	22nd	482: 759	- 277	12
17th	York Wasps	28	5	1	22nd	392: 859	- 467	11
18th	Lancashire Lynx	28	1	0	27	301: 1361	- 1060	2

final

29th of July	Dewsbury Rams	13:12	Leigh Centurions	Gigg Lane , Bury Spectators: 8,487 Referee: Robert Connolly
		(10: 6) Report

Web links

• Premiership 2000 on wigan.rlfans.com
• Premiership 2000 on rlhalloffame.org.uk ( Memento from August 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive )