Super League XXII

Super League XXII
League Super League
Duration 30 Rounds (Followed by 1 round of relevant playoffs)
Number of teams 12
Broadcast partners United Kingdom Sky Sports
United Kingdom BBC Sport
United Kingdom SLTV
Australia Fox Sports (Australia)
France beIN Sport
United States Fox Soccer Plus
Europe Sport Klub
2017 season
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The 2017 Super League season, known as the Betfred Super League XXII for sponsor reasons,[1] is the 22nd season of Super League and 123rd season of rugby league in Britain. Twelve teams compete over 23 rounds, including the Magic Weekend, after which the eight highest enter the Super League play-offs for a place in the Super League Grand Final. The four lowest teams then enter the qualifying play-offs, along with the four highest teams from the Championship, to determine which teams will play again in Super League XXIII.

Super League XXII features twelve teams, the third year in which this number has taken part. This is also the third year since promotion and relegation was reintroduced into the competition, seeing Leigh Centurions promoted and Hull KR relegated from last season.

Teams

Eleven teams in Super League are from the North of England: Six teams, Warrington, St Helens, Salford, Wigan Leigh and Widnes west of the Pennines in the historic county of Lancashire and five teams, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Leeds, Castleford and Hull , to the east in Yorkshire. Catalans Dragons, in Perpignan, France, are the only team outside the North of England. St Helens, Wigan Warriors, Warrington Wolves and Leeds Rhinos as the only teams to have played in every season of Super League since 1996.

Team 2016 position Stadium Capacity City/Area
Castleford Tigers (2017 season) 5th The Mend-O-Hose Jungle 11,750 Castleford, West Yorkshire
Catalans Dragons (2017 season) 6th Stade Gilbert Brutus 14,000 Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
Huddersfield Giants (2017 season) 12th John Smith's Stadium 24,544 Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
Hull F.C. (2017 season) 3rd Kingston Communications Stadium 25,404 Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
Leigh Centurions (2017 season) Promoted Leigh Sports Village 12,700 Leigh, Greater Manchester
Leeds Rhinos (2017 season) 9th Headingley Carnegie Stadium 22,250 Leeds, West Yorkshire
Salford Red Devils (2017 season) 10th AJ Bell Stadium 12,000 Salford, Greater Manchester
St Helens R.F.C. (2017 season) 4th Totally Wicked Stadium 18,000 St Helens, Merseyside
Wakefield Trinity R. (2017 season) 8th Rapid Solicitors Stadium 11,000 Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Warrington Wolves (2017 season) 1st Halliwell Jones Stadium 15,500 Warrington, Cheshire
Widnes Vikings (2017 season) 7th The Select Security Stadium 13,500 Widnes, Cheshire
Wigan Warriors (2017 season) 2nd (Champions) DW Stadium 25,138 Wigan, Greater Manchester

Table

Position Club Played Won Drawn Lost For Agst Points Qualification
1 Castleford Tigers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Super 8s
2 Catalans Dragons 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Huddersfield Giants 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Hull FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Leeds Rhinos 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Leigh Centurions 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Salford Red Devils 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 St Helens 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Wakefield Trinity 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 The Qualifiers
10 Warrington Wolves 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Widnes Vikings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Wigan Warriors 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Super 8s

After 23 Games

After 23 games the league table is frozen and the teams are split up into 2 of the 3 "Super 8's". Teams finishing in the top 8 will go on to contest "Super League" and will all retain a place in the competition for the next season, as they go on to play 7 more games each, as they compete for a place in the Grand Final. Teams finishing in the bottom four (9-12) will be put alongside the top 4 teams from the Championship, in "The Qualifiers" Super 8 group. Where these teams will reset their season standings to 0 and also play 7 extra games each, as they attempt to earn a place in the following Super League competition.

Position Club Played Won Drawn Lost For Agst Points Qualification
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Playoffs
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Season complete
6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Playoffs

# Home Score Away Match Information
Date and Time (Local) Venue Referee Attendance
SEMI-FINALS
SF1 TBD – TBD TBD, 20:00 BST
SF2 TBD – TBD TBD, 20:00 BST
GRAND-FINAL
F Winner SF1 – Winner SF2 Saturday 7th October 2017 18:00 BST Old Trafford

The Qualifiers

The Qualifiers

The Qualifiers sees the bottom 4 teams from Super League table 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 will gain qualification to the 2017 Super League season. The teams finishing 4th and 5th will play in the "Million Pound Game" at the home of the 4th place team which will earn the winner a place in the 2017 Super League. The loser, along with teams finishing 6th, 7th and 8th, will be relegated to the Championship.

Position Club Played Won Drawn Lost For Agst Points Qualification
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Super League XXII place
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Million Pound Game
5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2018 Championship place
7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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:[2]

Media

Television

2017 is the first of a five year contract with Sky Sports to televise 100 matches per season.[3]

Sky Sports coverage in the UK will see two live matches broadcast each week, usually at 8:00 pm on Thursday and Friday nights.[4]

Regular commentators will be Eddie Hemmings 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,[5] 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.[6] End of season play-offs are shown on BBC Two across the whole country in a weekly highlights package on Sunday afternoons.[7]

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:

Commercial Radio Coverage:

All Super League commentaries on any station are available via the particular stations on-line streaming.

References

  1. ↑ "First Utility powers title sponsorship of Super League". Super League. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "Man of Steel on SLTV". Super League. 6 October 2009. Retrieved 6 October 2009.
  3. ↑ Sky Sports (31 January 2014). "Super League deal". Sky Sports. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  4. ↑ Sky Sports (18 February 2012). "Rugby League live on Sky". Sky Sports. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  5. ↑ BBC Sport (3 February 2012). "BBC's Super League Show returns". BBC Sport. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  6. ↑ BBC. "BBC One - Super League Show". BBC. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  7. ↑ "BBC Two - Rugby League: Super League Play-Offs - Highlights". BBC. Retrieved 14 September 2013.

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