Tremendous League’s 12 present golf equipment have voted to develop the competitors to 14 groups from subsequent season.

In an announcement, the league mentioned the growth would happen by combining the membership grading system with an impartial panel.

The panel is to be chaired by Lord Jonathan Caine, who was just lately elected to the RFL’s board, in addition to the strategic overview sub-committee.

The highest 12 golf equipment below the grading system on the finish of 2025 might be joined by two golf equipment really useful by the panel “offered there are two purposes of ample benefit towards the set standards”.

It will likely be the primary time since 2014 that the league may have operated with 14 groups, having dipped right down to 12 for the 2015 marketing campaign.

The choice to develop was made, exterior following a gathering of member golf equipment at Headingley on Monday.

Golf equipment have been graded below media large IMG and Rugby League Business’s ‘Reimagining Rugby League’ initiative prior to now two seasons, however solely 2025’s league construction has been determined by its standards, which noticed London changed by Wakefield within the prime 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, relatively than promotion and relegation between the divisions.