• Stones Bitter
League Champions: Wigan (16th title) •
Silk Cut Challenge Cup Winners: Wigan (30-10 v Leeds) • Stones Bitter
Premiership Trophy Winners: Wigan (69-12 v Leeds) •
Harry Sunderland Trophy:
Kris Radlinski •
Regal Trophy Winners: Wigan (7 - 40-10 v Warrington) • 2nd Division Champions: Keighley The record for most points scored by one team in a match was broken by Huddersfield when they clocked up 142 against Blackpool Gladiators' 4 in a
Regal Trophy match on 26 November 1994. This is also the record for widest margin. The 1995
Man of Steel Award for the player of the season went to Wigan's
Denis Betts. Wigan also set a new record for most points in all matches in one season with 1,735 from 45 matches as follows: • Division One Championship: 1,148 (from 30 games) • Challenge Cup 230 (from 6 games) • Regal Trophy 170 (from 5 games) • Premiership Trophy 167 (from 3 games) • Tour match (Australia) 20 (from 1 game)
Rule changes The following rule changes were introduced this season by the referees' coaching director, Greg McCallum: • Referees were given the power to put a player suspected of foul play "on report" with the incident to be reviewed later by the disciplinary panel. The system was based on the one already operating in Australian rugby league. •
In-goal judges were trialled, these two additional match officials are positioned behind the dead-ball line at each end of the
playing field and aim to aid the referee in judging if a try has been scored. Among the more consensual recommendations were the hiring of at least one full-time press officer, which
The Daily Telegraph John Whalley found badly needed, pointing that only six First Division clubs bothered to allow the
BBC's
Ceefax teletext service to relay their game results. More controversially, the plan would nullify the existing revenue sharing scheme directed at second-tier teams, give two-to-one voting powers to top-flight clubs and limit promotion opportunities to one spot (the second would be conditioned to a playoff), which would likely not be guaranteed due to the implementation of more stringent stadium standards in the elite. Those proposals drew the ire of many smaller clubs, with only one second-division member, the big-market
London Broncos, reportedly in favour. Opposition leaders
Batley and
Ryedale-York proposed several amendments. Concurrently, the leading clubs also hardened their stance:
Wigan threatened to form a breakaway loop, however it was accepted that only three or four clubs could afford to follow them.
Super League Europe Throughout the 1994–95 season, news of media mogul
Rupert Murdoch's interest in an extension of his
projected Australian circuit to Europe made their way to the press, and were formalised during an RFL Council meeting on 5 April 1995. Three days later, the clubs unanimously voted to accept Murdoch's proposal, effectively superseding much of the previous fall's moderate reform. Per the agreement, the final
1995–96 First Division season would serve as a transition year, and use a condensed roster of teams which would prefigure the
Super League format. The possible aggregation of local rivals into a single regional side to reach the desired team quota—which was later rescinded—led to some protests, including a pitch invasion during half-time of the East Lancashire derby between
Salford and
Oldham on 14 April. ==Tables==