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12 unusual facts about Super League


2004 NRL season

Jamie Lyon walked out on the Parramatta club after the first round citing burnout and dissatisfaction with living in Sydney, and would later move to the UK for a successful European Super League career.

2007 State of Origin series

It was not till the 73rd minute that New South Wales' Matt King, in his farewell Origin performance having announced his intention to relocate the European Super League in 2008, scored a try which was set up by a flat pass from eventual man-of-the-match Greg Bird.

Cronulla-Sutherland District Rugby Football League

Since the establishments of both the CSDRFL and the CSDJRFL many local players have gone on to play first grade for many of the Australian and overseas professional teams contained in the National Rugby League and the European Super League.

Dimosthenis Manousakis

He was only the second Lemnian footballer who played in Super League, after Vertsonis who had played in Apollon Smyrni in the late '60s

FC Barcelona Rugby League

It is widely speculated, but purely a hypothesis, that this branch of the successful FC Barcelona club will become members of the Rugby Football League and possibly Super League should the venture prove a success in Catalonia, as they were now playing more competitive rugby, on a more regular basis.

Jerónimo Barrales

On July 2013, he decided to come for second time in his career in Europe and signed a one-year contarct with Greek team Asteras Tripolis in Greek Super League.

Macoumba Kandji

Although his club was promoted, Kandji announced he had changed clubs to Levadiakos F.C. of the Greek Super League (1st division) for the new Greek season 2013/2014.

Not only did he contribute with goals, Kandji helped the club gain promotion to the first division and earn a spot in the Super League.

Rugby Super League

Rugby Canada Super League, a semi-professional rugby union competition in Canada

Super League, officially known as the "Rugby Super League", professional rugby league competition in the United Kingdom and France

Stade de la Mosson

The Catalans Dragons will continue their policy of playing home games away from the Stade Gilbert Brutus, Perpignan by playing their Stobart Super League fixture against Wigan Warriors at the stadium.

Women's football in England

For its first three seasons (2011–2013), the WSL is operating on a licence system with no promotion or relegation, similar to the system used in rugby league's Super League.


2012 Widnes Vikings season

Widnes kicked off their first year back in Super League with a 32-14 loss to new look Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, the Vikings looked good and took the lead with tries from Danny Craven, Patrick Ah Van and Hep Cahill with Ah Van kicking a goal however they surrendered to a late Wakefield fightback.

Anzac Test

However Super League donated a large sum of money to the RSL, and Bruce Ruxton featured in commercials for the inaugural Anzac Test, proclaiming

Barnet Copthall

Widnes Vikings introduced the first in English rugby as a whole in when they used it for the 2012 Super League season.

Brad Thorn

At the outbreak of the Super League war in 1995, Thorn along with the rest of his Broncos team-mates and players of several other clubs, was aligned with Super League and so ineligible for selection in the Australian Rugby League's 1995 State of Origin series or post-season 1995 Rugby League World Cup.

Damien Tixier

He formerly played for Swiss Super League club Neuchâtel Xamax until his contract was terminated on March 28, 2010 due to an excessive number of red cards.

El Fardou Ben Nabouhane

El Fardou Ben Nabouhane (born June 10, 1989 in Passamainty, Mayotte, France) is a French footballer who currently plays for Greek Super League side Veria.

Israel Folau

In 2008, after Melbourne and New South Wales representative Matt King announced he would be leaving the Storm to play with the Warrington Wolves in the European Super League, Folau filled the void as the starting centre for Melbourne.

James Stosic

Since then, he has played in 4 Super League matches for the Wildcats, before injuring his leg during the Wildcats victory over Warrington Wolves in round 4.

Jordan James

Jordan James (born 24 May 1980 in Bath, Somerset, England) is a Welsh rugby league international Captain and player, who currently plays for Wales and for Salford of Super League, he has previously played for Crusaders, South Wales Scorpions, Swinton, Widnes, Castleford, Sheffield Eagles and Wigan.

Konstantinos Kaznaferis

It is important to mention that the Bulgarian team coach is Hristo Bonev, who had a remarkable career in the Super League for AEK, besides the fact that he served as a coach of Panathinaikos,Larissa and Ionikos.

Leicester Storm

Ty Watson : Ty is a former Super League player with Australian team Western Reds who has played for the club since 2009 when he took over the coaching reigns.

Matt Salter

He played for London Broncos in the European Super League, and was in the starting line-up (as a prop forward) for them in the 1999 Rugby League Challenge Cup Final, led out by the club backer at the time, Richard Branson.

Peter Bullfrog Moore

Moore had been actively involved in supporting Super League, and in securing the signature of the Canterbury-Bankstown coach (his son-in-law, Chris Anderson) to a Super League contract.

Peter Jehle

From 2000 to 2006, Jehle played his club football for Grasshopper Club Zürich in the Swiss Super League, having previously played for local FC Schaan in his country.

Phil Clarke

He began working with Sky television in 1999 alongside Bill Arthur on Academy matches but nowadays he can be seen working with Eddie Hemmings and Mike "Stevo" Stephenson on Sky Sports Super League broadcasts and is respected for his in depth analysis of games and regularly "knocks sense" into colleague Mike Stephenson.

Robert Elstone

He was involved in the creation and branding of both the Scottish Premier League and the Super League and at the time said: "We worked on the formation of the SPL from cradle to the grave, it was long and ground-breaking, and very rewarding.

Sam Tomkins

Tomkins made 34 appearances during the 2011 season: 28 in the Super League, 5 in the Challenge Cup, and one in the World Club Challenge, in which he scored a drop goal in Wigan's 15–21 loss to the St. George Illawarra Dragons.

Stuart Pyke

Stuart has commentated on many Rugby League Challenge Cup Finals, Super League Grand Finals and Great Britain test matches during his career.

Top six play-offs

After a top five play-off system was used, a play-off structure involving the top six teams was used to determine the winners of the Super League competition in British rugby league from 2002 through 2008.

Wayne Richards

During the 1997 season split between the ARL and the Super League, Richards played for Newcastle (an ARL loyal club).

Yorkshire Radio

Alongside Leeds United commentaries, Yorkshire Radio also carried coverage of Super League, Leeds Carnegie RUFC and Yorkshire County Cricket Club.