Craig Hall of Toronto Wolfpack lifts the Championship 1 Promotion Trophy. Photo / Getty Images
Plans to get a New York-based team into the English's leagues have been submitted to the Rugby Football League.
Following on from the success of the Toronto Wolfpack, who won League 1 to earn promotion to the Championship in their first season, a group of investors are hoping to do
something similar in the Big Apple.
The consortium is pushing to be included straight into the League Championship - a tier below Super League - in time for the 2019 season.
Toronto average home crowds of 7,000 in their first season and the New York bid team is confident of drawing 10,000 as their first season average at the 25,000-capacity Red Bull Arena.
Like Toronto, the New York team is offering to pay all costs of other teams to travel to the US and will be exempt from the central funding model having already secured $14m in funding.
