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Super League is Europe's top-level professional rugby league club competition. As a result of sponsorship from engage Mutual Assurance the competition is currently officially known as the engage Super League. The League features fourteen teams: twelve from England, one from Wales and one from France, which compete from February to October.
Super League began in March 1996 and saw the English season switch from winter to summer for the first time in over 100 years. Most of the teams are based in Great Britain, though initially the league was intended to be European, and indeed French club Paris Saint Germain contested the first ever Super League match. Following their departure in 1997, the league was solely English until Catalans Dragons were admitted for the 2006 season. In 2009, the Celtic Crusaders, from Wales, entered the competition.
During the league's regular season, each team plays 27 games over 27 rounds from February to September. At the end of the regular season, the top six teams in Super League play in the playoffs, which culminates with the Grand Final.
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 Leeds Rhinos, or informally Leeds or Rhinos, are an English professional rugby league football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Read more » |
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 Hull FC is a professional rugby league football club established in 1865 and based in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Read more » |
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