Tremendous League’s 12 present golf equipment have voted to broaden the competitors to 14 groups from subsequent season.
In an announcement, the league stated the enlargement would happen by combining the membership grading system with an unbiased panel.
The panel is to be chaired by Lord Jonathan Caine, who was lately elected to the RFL’s board, in addition to the strategic overview sub-committee.
The highest 12 golf equipment underneath the grading system on the finish of 2025 can be joined by two golf equipment beneficial by the panel “supplied there are two functions of ample advantage in opposition to the set standards”.
Will probably be the primary time since 2014 that the league can have operated with 14 groups, having dipped right down to 12 for the 2015 marketing campaign.
The choice to broaden was made, exterior following a gathering of member golf equipment at Headingley on Monday.
Golf equipment have been graded underneath media big IMG and Rugby League Industrial’s ‘Reimagining Rugby League’ initiative previously two seasons, however solely 2025’s league construction has been determined by its standards, which noticed London changed by Wakefield within the high flight for this time period.
Underneath the system, Tremendous League, Championship and League One golf equipment are assessed based mostly on factors calculated by on and off-field efficiency with a purpose to resolve who will make up the highest flight, moderately than promotion and relegation between the divisions.
