2015 Super League season

British rugby league season January 2016 January 2016 Super League XX Super League 201px 30 Rounds 12 2,712 Salford City Reds vs Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, (15 March) 10,019 Sky Sports BBC Sport Fox Sports beIN SportsFox Soccer Plus Sport Klub Warrington Wolves 80-0 Wakefield Trinity Wildcats (11 April) Wakefield Trinity Wildcats 20-58 Castleford Tigers (19 July) 2015 season Leeds Rhinos7th Super League10th British title Champions Leeds Rhinos League Leaders Wigan Warriors ENG Zak Hardaker Man of Steel AwardsMan of Steel ENG Luke Gale (247) ENG Jermaine McGillvary (27) Super League Play=offs (for top 8) Super League Qualifying Play-Offs (for bottom 4 as well as top 4 of Championship http://media.therfl.co.uk/docs/Policy%20Review%20-%20September%202013.pdf Archived copy 23 July 2014 30 June 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170630050554/http://media.therfl.co.uk/docs/Policy%20Review%20-%20September%202013.pdf dead https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-league/25780498 Super League: Competition restructures confirmed BBC Sport 31 May 2018 Super League XIX 2014 Super League XXI 2016 The Super League XX, known as the First Utility Super League XX for sponsorship reasons,First Utility powers title sponsorship of Super League http://superleague.co.uk/article/29353/first-utility-powers-title-sponsorship Super League 23 January 2014 24 January 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140124060804/http://www.superleague.co.uk/article/29353/first-utility-powers-title-sponsorship dead was the 2015 season of Super League. Twelve teams competed over 23 rounds, including the Magic Weekend, after which the eight highest entered the play-offs for a place in the Grand Final. The four lowest teams entered the Super League Qualifying Play-off, along with the four highest Championship teams, to decide which will play in Super League XXI. Leeds Rhinos became only the 3rd team to complete the Treble after defeating Wigan Warriors 22-20 in front of a new record attendance of 73,512 at Old Trafford to win their 7th Super League title. Teams Super League XX is the first year since 2008 in which there is a promotion and relegation with the Championship. Super League has been reduced to 12 teams as part of the re-structuring of Super League and the Championship.Super League set to feature 12 teams from 2015 http://superleague.co.uk/article/29347/super-league-set-to-feature Super League 23 January 2014 Eleven teams in Super League are from the North of England: five teams, Warrington, St. Helens, Salford, Wigan and Widnes, west of the Pennines in the historic county of Lancashire and six teams, Huddersfield, Wakefield Trinity, Leeds, Castleford, Hull F.C. and Hull Kingston Rovers, to the east in Yorkshire. Catalans Dragons, in Perpignan, France, are the only team outside the North of England. With Bradford Bulls and London Broncos being relegated last season, this leaves St Helens, Wigan Warriors, Warrington Wolves and Leeds Rhinos as the only teams to have played in every season of Super League since 1996. TeamStadiumCapacityCity/Area Castleford 16 Castleford Tigers (2015 season) The Mend-O-Hose Jungle 11,750 Castleford, West Yorkshire Catalans 16 Catalans Dragons (2015 season) Stade Gilbert Brutus 14,000 Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, France Huddersfield 16 Huddersfield Giants (2015 season) John Smith's Stadium 24,544 Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Hull FC 16 Hull F.C. (2015 season) Kingston Communications Stadium 25,404 Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire Hull KR 16 Hull Kingston Rovers (2015 season) KC Lightstream Stadium 12,225 Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire Leeds 16 Leeds Rhinos (2015 season) Headingley Carnegie Stadium 22,250 Leeds, West Yorkshire Salford City 16 Salford Red Devils (2015 season) AJ Bell Stadium 12,000 Salford, Greater Manchester St Helens 16 St Helens R.F.C. (2015 season) Langtree Park 18,000 St. Helens, Merseyside Wakefield 16 Wakefield Trinity Wildcats (2015 season) Rapid Solicitors Stadium 11,000 Wakefield, West Yorkshire Warrington 16 Warrington Wolves (2015 season) Halliwell Jones Stadium 15,500 Warrington, Cheshire Widnes 16 Widnes Vikings (2015 season) The Select Security Stadium 13,500 Widnes, Cheshire Wigan 16 Wigan Warriors (2015 season) DW Stadium 25,138 Wigan, Greater Manchester Regular season table The regular season sees teams play each other home and away, and one team for a third time at the Magic Weekend. After 23 games, the "Super 8's" begin and the league is split into two mini leagues. Teams finishing in the top 8 compete in the Super League Super 8s while teams finishing in the bottom four will join the top 4 teams from the Championship in The Qualifiers to determine who will play in next seasons Super League. Super 8s 2015 Super 8s Super League The Super League Super 8's sees the top 8 Super League teams play 7 games each. Each team's points are carried over with top 4 teams entering the playoffs for the Super League Grand Final. The Qualifiers The Qualifiers sees the bottom 4 teams from Super League join the top 4 teams from the Championship. The points totals are reset to 0 and each team plays 7 games each, playing every other team once. After 7 games each the teams finishing 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gain qualification to Super League XXI in 2016. The teams finishing 4th and 5th playoff in the Million Pound Game for the final spot in next seasons Super League. The loser of the Million Pound Game along with the teams finishing 6th, 7th and 8th will play in next seasons Championship Playoffs Super League #HomeScoreAwayMatch InformationDate and Time (Local)VenueRefereeAttendance SEMI-FINALSSF1 Wigan 16px Wigan Warriors32 – 8 Huddersfield 16px Huddersfield Giants1 October, 20:00 BSTDW StadiumBen Thaler10,035SF2 Leeds 16px Leeds Rhinos20 – 13 St Helens 16px St. Helens2 October, 20:00 BSTHeadingley Carnegie StadiumRobert Hicks17,192 GRAND FINALF Leeds 16px Leeds Rhinos 22 – 20 Wigan 16px Wigan Warriors10 October, 18:00 BSTOld Trafford, ManchesterBen Thaler73,512 Million Pound Game #HomeScoreAwayMatch InformationDate and Time (Local)VenueRefereeAttendance Million Pound GameF Wakefield 16px Wakefield Trinity Wildcats24 – 16 Bradford 16px Bradford Bulls3 October, 14:50 BSTBelle VueR. Silverwood7,246 Player statistics Top Try Scorers RankPlayerClubTries1 ENG Jermaine McGillvary Huddersfield 13px Huddersfield Giants272 ENG Tom Lineham Hull 13px Hull F.C. 253 ENG Joe Burgess Wigan 13px Wigan Warriors 234 ENG Dominic Manfredi Wigan 13px Wigan Warriors205 ENG Ryan Hall Leeds 13px Leeds Rhinos196= NZL Denny Solomona Castleford 13px Castleford Tigers18 ENG Aaron Murphy Huddersfield 13px Huddersfield Giants AUS Justin Carney Castleford 13px Castleford Tigers ENG Adam Swift St Helens 13px St Helens10 AUS Joel Monaghan Warrington 13px Warrington Wolves17 Top goalscorers RankPlayerClubGoals1 ENG Kevin Sinfield Leeds 13px Leeds Rhinos1052 ENG Luke Gale Castleford 13px Castleford Tigers1013 AUS Scott Dureau Catalans 13px Catalans Dragons944 SCO Danny Brough Huddersfield 13px Huddersfield Giants935 ENG Matty Smith Wigan 13px Wigan Warriors76 Top try assists RankPlayerClubAssists1 SCO Danny Brough Huddersfield 13px Huddersfield Giants312= ENG Luke Gale Castleford 13px Castleford Tigers 27 ENG Danny McGuire Leeds 13px Leeds Rhinos4 AUS Scott Dureau Catalans 13px Catalans Dragons235 ENG George Williams Wigan 13px Wigan Warriors216= ENG Marc Sneyd Hull 13px Hull F.C.20 ENG Stefan Ratchford Warrington 13px Warrington Wolves8= ENG Kevin Sinfield Leeds 13px Leeds Rhinos18 ENG Kevin Brown Widnes 13px Widnes Vikings9= ENG Leroy Cudjoe Huddersfield 13px Huddersfield Giants16 AUS Rhys Hanbury Widnes 13px Widnes Vikings Top points scorers RankPlayerClubPoints1 ENG Luke Gale Castleford 13px Castleford Tigers 2472 ENG Kevin Sinfield Leeds 13px Leeds Rhinos2253 SCO Danny Brough Huddersfield 13px Huddersfield Giants2084 AUS Scott Dureau Catalans 13px Catalans Dragons2025 ITA Josh Mantellato Hull KR 13px Hull Kingston Rovers1966 ENG Matty Smith Wigan 13px Wigan Warriors1687 ENG Marc Sneyd Hull FC 13px Hull F.C.1568 AUS Luke Walsh Catalans 13px Catalans Dragons1269 ENG Josh Griffin Salford City 13px Salford Red Devils11610 ENG Jack Owens Widnes 13px Widnes Vikings114 End-of-season awards Awards are presented for outstanding contributions and efforts to players and clubs in the week leading up to the Super League Grand Final:http://www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=15588 Man of Steel on SLTV 6 October 2009 Super League 6 October 2009 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120825215346/http://www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=15588 25 August 2012 dmy-all Man of Steel: Zak Hardaker Leeds 16 Coach of the year: Brian McDermott Leeds 16 Super League club of the year: Leeds 16 Leeds Rhinos Young player of the year: George Williams Wigan 16 Foundation of the year: Warrington 16 Warrington Wolves Rhino "Top Gun": Kevin Sinfield Leeds 16 Metre-maker: Alex Walmsley St Helens 16 (4092) Top Try Scorer: Jermaine McGillvary Huddersfield 16 (27) Outstanding Achievement Award: Hit Man: Danny Houghton Hull FC 16 Media Television 2015 is the fourth year of a five-year contract with Sky Sports to televise 70 matches per season. http://business.sky.com/media/documents/6345331_040811%20-%20Sky%20Sports%20has%20been%20awarded%20exclusive%20live%20rights%20to%20Super%20League%20until%20the%20end%20of%202016.pdf Sky Sports Super League deal Sky Sports 4 August 2011 4 August 2011 The deal which runs until 2016 is worth £90million. Sky Sports coverage in the UK will see two live matches broadcast each week, usually at 8:00 pm on Thursday and Friday nights. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12944,00.html Sky Sports Rugby League live on Sky Sky Sports 18 February 2012 19 February 2012 Regular commentators will be Eddie Hemmings and Mike Stephenson with summarisers including Phil Clarke, Brian Carney, Barrie McDermott and Terry O'Connor. Sky will broadcast highlights on Sunday nights on Super League - Full Time at 10 p.m. BBC Sport will broadcast a highlights programme called the Super League Show, presented by Tanya Arnold. The BBC show two weekly broadcasts of the programme, the first to the BBC North West, Yorkshire, North East and Cumbria, and East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire regions on Monday evenings at 11:35 p.m. on BBC One, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/16877011 BBC Sport BBC's Super League Show returns BBC Sport 3 February 2012 19 February 2012 while a repeat showing is shown nationally on BBC Two on Tuesday afternoons at 1.30 p.m. The Super League Show is also available for one week after broadcast for streaming or download via the BBC iPlayer in the UK only. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0071mmc BBC BBC One - Super League Show BBC 19 February 2012 End of season play-offs are shown on BBC Two across the whole country in a weekly highlights package on Sunday afternoons.BBC Two - Rugby League: Super League Play-Offs - Highlights https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dqk4x BBC 14 September 2013 Internationally, Super League is shown live or delayed on Showtime Sports (Middle East), Sky Sport (New Zealand), TV 2 Sport (Norway), Fox Soccer Plus (United States), Fox Sports (Australia) and Sportsnet World (Canada). Radio BBC Coverage: BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra (National DAB Digital Radio) will carry two Super League commentaries each week on Thursday and Friday nights (both kick off 8pm); this will be through the 5 Live Rugby league programme which is presented by Dave Woods with a guest summariser (usually a Super League player or coach) and also includes interviews and debate.. BBC Radio Humberside will have full match commentary of all Hull KR and Hull matches. BBC Radio Leeds carry commentaries featuring Leeds, Castleford, Wakefield and Huddersfield. BBC Radio Manchester will carry commentary of Wigan and Salford whilst sharing commentary of Warrington with BBC Radio Merseyside. BBC Radio Merseyside (will have commentary on St Helens and Widnes matches whilst sharing commentary of Warrington with BBC Radio Manchester. Commercial Radio Coverage: 102.4 Wish FM will carry commentaries of Wigan & St Helens matches. 107.2 Wire FM will carry commentaries on Warrington and Widnes matches. Radio Yorkshire will launch in March carrying Super League commentaries. Radio Warrington (Online Station) all Warrington home games and some away games. Grand Sud FM covers every Catalans Dragons Home Match (in French). Radio France Bleu Roussillon covers every Catalans Dragons Away Match (in French). All Super League commentaries on any station are available via the particular stations on-line streaming. References 40em External links Official Site BBC Rugby League