Super League XVIII
| Super League XVIII | |
|---|---|
| League | Super League |
| Duration | 27 Rounds (Followed by 4 round playoffs) |
| Teams | 14 |
| Highest attendance | 31,249 Magic Weekend day 2 |
| Lowest attendance | 1,136 London Broncos v Catalans Dragons (28 March 2013) |
| Average attendance | 9,048 |
| Broadcast partners |
 Sky Sports BBC Sport SLTV Eurosport beIN Sport Fox Soccer Plus Sport Klub
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| 2013 season | |
| Champions |
 Wigan Warriors3rd Super League title 20th English title |
| League Leaders |
 Huddersfield Giants
|
| Biggest home win | Hull F.C. 72-10 Widnes Vikings (2 August 2013) |
| Biggest away win | Hull Kingston Rovers 6-84 Wigan Warriors (1 April 2013) |
| Top point-scorer(s) |
Danny Brough (281) |
| Top try-scorer(s) |
Josh Charnley (33) |
The 2013 Super League season was the 18th 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), after which the highest finishing teams entered 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 XVIII was the second 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 2013 season, all fourteen teams from the previous season will compete, including the Bradford Bulls, who were given a one-year probationary licence after going into administration and taken over by the Omar Khan consortium in the 2012 season.
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, Leeds, Castleford, Hull and Hull KR. 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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