Saturday, 29 July 2017

UK Top Teams : 1961-2017

Football in England has two best sides by some distance, Liverpool FC and Manchester Utd. For RL it's St Helens and Wigan. Saints are near Liverpool and Wigan Manchester so the comparison is notable. In each analogy, going from 1961 to 2016, the closeness is remarkable.

The Championship or league is the top 4 teams, scored 6-3-2-1. Then the Premiership or finals again top 4 sides, 6-4-2-2. Challenge Cup finalists, 4-2. League Cup 4-2, Lancashire & Yorkshire Cups, BBC Floodlit Trophy finalists, 3-1. The only cup left is the C C.

St Helens just leads thanks to the Premiership finals success. Wigan did best in the League Cup, Leeds the Yorkshire Cup was its specialty. It falls away after that to Bradford, a club that won't be adding points to this list anytime in the future. Some of the names here will also struggle to add much now that the county cups are no longer contested. (2017 premiership finals added 08/10/17).

Club / Comp Tot Prem Lge C C Le C La C Y C BBC
1 St Helens 428 167 133 81 6 30 - 11
2 Wigan 427 124 136 102 34 27 - 4
3 Leeds 341 125 104 66 14 - 29 3
4 Bradford 175 60 64 24 12 - 15
5 Widnes 168 44 34 42 22 21 - 5
6 Warrington 160 48 41 33 22 15 - 1
7 Hull FC 132 35 33 39 8 - 14 3
8 Castleford 121 32 24 24 8 - 21 12
9 Hull KR 112 34 32 18 8 - 19 1
10 Wakefield 77 31 11 18 2 - 15
11 Featherstone 51 7 16 21
- 7
12 Halifax 46 17 10 9 6 - 4
13 Salford 40 10 14 3 2 8 - 3
14 Huddersfield 35 12 13 9
- 1
15 Leigh 31 2 7 6
8 - 8
16 Swinton 30 4 17

8 - 1
17 Dewsbury 11 6


- 1 4
17 Catalan 11 5 3 3
- -
19 Sheffield 10 3
6
- 1
20 London 9 2 4 3
- -
21 Barrow 8

3 2 3 -
22 Hunslet 7

3
- 4
23 Workington 6



6 -
24 Rochdale 5


2 2 - 1
25 Oldham 4



4 -
26 Bramley 3



-
3
27 Blackpool 2


2
-
28 York 1



- 1
Grand Total 2451 768 696 513 150 132 132 60

A small addition is the World Club Challenge that six sides have won, some more than once. I allocated 4 points for each victory.


WCC Tot

1 Wigan 16

2 Bradford 12

2 Leeds 12

4 St Helens 8

5 Widnes 4

5 Warrington 4

Grand Total 56

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