Lokomotiva Beroun have won a third successive Czech Rugby League Championship. The first club to be established in the country, in 2007, they dropped only one game – their first round clash against the Czech Rabbitohs – on their way to securing their fourth title. The Rabbitohs finished runners up, losing only to Teplice Dragons on the road and battling their way to a draw with the Roosters of Mikulov, also away.

Mikulov and Teplice followed on the table with Slavia Hradec Kralove fifth in their first year in the Czech First Division while Vrchlabi Mad Squirrels - after being Grand Finalists in 2013 - finished the regular rounds a disappointing sixth. Orli Havlickuv Brod’s young squad were solid improvers on their 2013 performances and, after a strong finish to the season, look capable of making an impression on the extended Czech finals series.

The 2014 CZRLA finals is a mini-championship that involves all seven First Division clubs as well as the leading Second Division outfit – Usti nad Labem Blades – and will culminate in the Grand Final on the first weekend of November.

Pictured: Beroun's Jiri Sluka hits it up.