Super League Europe, Super League Europe - History, Super League Europe - Results, Super League Europe - Structure, Super League Europe - Teams, Super League X (2005 Super League season), Challenge Cup, World Club Challenge, Rugby League National Leagues, Sports league attendances
ARTICLES RELATED TO Super League Europe - Structure
Currently, 12 teams compete in Super League. They play each other twice on a home-and-away basis. An additional six fixtures are then included. A play-off structure is then used to determine the two teams who will meet in the Super League Grand Final to decide the championship. Currently the top six teams enter the play-offs. The structure is designed to reward the teams finishing nearer the top with easier routes to ...
The competition was first mooted during the Super League war as a way for Rupert Murdoch to gain the upper hand during the battle for supremacy with the Australian Rugby League. Murdoch approached the British clubs to form Super League (Europe) (SLE). A large sum of money aided the decision, and the competition got under way in 1996. Part of the deal saw rugby league switch from a winter to a summer season.
Initially, several mergers between existing clubs were proposed:
Castleford, Wakefield and Featherstone Rover ...
