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2007 Super League season

Super League XII
League Super League
Duration 27 Rounds
Teams 12
Highest attendance 32,384
Magic Weekend Day 1 (5 May)
Lowest attendance 2,347
Harlequins RL vs Salford City Reds (8 Sept)
Attendance 1,537,326 Increase
(average 9,855)
Broadcast partners United Kingdom Sky Sports
2007 Season
Champions Rhinoscolours.svg Leeds Rhinos
2nd Super League title
5th English title
League Leaders Saintscolours.svg St. Helens
Man of Steel Saintscolours.svg James Roby
Top point-scorer(s) Wigancolours.svg Pat Richards (248)
Top try-scorer(s) Wolvescolours.svg Henry Fa'afili (21)
Promotion and relegation
Promoted from National League 1 Castleford colours.svg Castleford Tigers
Relegated to National League 1 Redscolours.svg Salford City Reds
Seasons

Engage Super League XII is the official name for the year 2007's Super League season in the sport of rugby league.

The 2007 season kicked off on the weekend of 2 February 2007 at the Galpharm Stadium. For the first time, the league had a staggered start due to the World Club Challenge between St. Helens and Brisbane Broncos. The first round of matches began on the weekend of 9 to 11 February 2007.

St. Helens were defending Super League champions and Challenge Cup holders. Hull Kingston Rovers played in the Super League for the first time ever after being promoted from National League 1 in 2006. This season also included the first Millennium Magic weekend, which took place on the weekend of 5 and 6 May 2007 in Cardiff.

Super League XII featured 12 teams and had 27 rounds including the Millennium Magic round. St Helens, Leeds, Bradford, Hull FC, Huddersfield and Wigan qualified for the end of season play-offs and Salford City Reds were relegated to National League 1.

The first weekend of the play-offs saw both Bradford and Huddersfield defeated narrowly by both Wigan and Hull respectively. The second weekend of the play-offs saw St Helens defeat Leeds and get an instant passageway into the grand final whilst Wigan overcame Hull at the KC Stadium to set up a semi final encounter with Leeds. The semi final saw Leeds easily dispose of a tired Wigan side that had come from sixth and saw Leeds enter the grand final against St Helens in which they won convincingly to lift the Super League trophy for 2007.

Source: superleague.co.uk.
Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference.
Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.


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