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2014 Super League championship

Super League XIX
First Utility Super League logo.gif
League Super League
Duration 27 Rounds (Followed by 4 round playoffs)
Teams 14
Highest attendance 36,399 (Magic Weekend Day 1, 17 May)
Lowest attendance

1,002

(Broncoscolours.png London Broncos v Catalanscolours.svg Catalans Dragons, 17 April)
Average attendance 8,365
Broadcast partners United Kingdom Sky Sports
United Kingdom BBC Sport
United Kingdom SLTV
Australia Eurosport
France beIN Sport
United States Fox Soccer Plus
Europe Sport Klub
2014 season
Champions Saintscolours.svg St. Helens
6th Super League title
13th English title
League Leaders Saintscolours.svg St. Helens
Runners-up Wigancolours.svg Wigan Warriors
Biggest home win Widnes colours.svg Widnes Vikings 64-10 Broncoscolours.png London Broncos (16 February)
Biggest away win Bullscolours.svg Bradford Bulls 18-66 Giantscolours.svg Huddersfield Giants (16 March)
Man of Steel Daryl Clark Castleford colours.svg (Castleford Tigers)
Top point-scorer(s) Giantscolours.svg Danny Brough (142)
Top try-scorer(s) Joel Monaghan Wolvescolours.svg (Warrington Wolves) (28)
Promotion and relegation
Relegated to Championship Broncoscolours.png London Broncos
Bullscolours.svg Bradford Bulls
Seasons

1,002

The 2014 Super League season (known as the First Utility Super League XIX due to sponsorship by First Utility) was the 19th season of rugby league football since the Super League format was introduced in 1996. Fourteen teams competed for the League Leader's Shield over 27 rounds (including the Magic Weekend in Manchester), after which the highest finishing teams will enter the play-offs to compete for a place in the Grand Final and a chance to win the championship and the Super League Trophy.

Super League XIX will be the third and final year of a licensed Super League. Under this system, promotion and relegation between Super League and Championship was abolished, and 14 teams were granted licences subject to certain criteria. For the 2014 season, all fourteen teams from the previous season will compete, although Salford have changed their names from the City Reds to the Red Devils.

At the end of the season, Super League will be reduced to 12 teams, as part of the re-structuring of Super League and the RFL Championship.

Geographically, the vast majority of teams in Super League are based in the north of England, five teams – Warrington, St. Helens, Salford, Wigan and Widnes – to the west of the Pennines in Cheshire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside, and seven teams to the east in Yorkshire – Huddersfield, Bradford, Wakefield Trinity, Leeds, Castleford, Hull F.C. and Hull Kingston Rovers. Catalans Dragons are the only team based in France and are outside of the UK and London Broncos are the only team to be based in a capital city (London).


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