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  Rugby league - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Rugby league is one of the two codes of rugby, the other being rugby union.
Rugby league's roots can be traced to early football history, like most forms of football, through the playing of ball games, which bear little resemblance to modern games.
The Super League is a 12 team competition; currently all teams are from England.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/r/u/g/Rugby_league.html   (1969 words)

  
  Super League (Europe) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Super League (Europe) is the only full-time professional rugby league competition operating in the northern hemisphere.
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.
Promotion and relegation between Super League and the Rugby League National Leagues was re-introduced, and in 2002 the SLE governing body re-integrated fully into the Rugby Football League.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Super_League_(Europe)   (717 words)

  
 Militant Moderate: The Coming Of A European Super League?
The loyalty of the football market means that most Manchester United fans will ignore the FC United breakway, even when pushed into a European Super League, and follow their team to Munich, Milan and Madrid week in week out.
Even if a Super League was to be created, it's possible this would be a long term solution rather than a short term one (expediency may dictate having as many games on offer to the viewer as possible).
As one comment said the last time a European Super League was mooted, Murdoch was so keen to buy up screening rights for the Football League because he was well aware that in a few years time Torquay vs Northampton was the best he had to offer.
kenowen.blogspot.com /2005/05/coming-of-european-super-league.html   (1032 words)

  
 Super League (Europe) - TheBestLinks.com - France, Great Britain, Paris, Rugby league, ...
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Super League (Europe) is the official name for the only full-time professional rugby league competition operating in the northern hemisphere.
In order to facilitate this move, it has been decided that two clubs will be relegated from Super League at the end of the 2005 season, with only one club coming up from the National Leagues, thus the number of clubs in Super League will remain at 12.
www.thebestlinks.com /Super_League___28__Europe__29__.html   (507 words)

  
 Super League (Australia) -
Super League was a rugby league competition that was held in Australia in 1997.
Super League would make it possible for $100m to be invested in rugby league, thus giving the ARL a "$100m friend".
Most Super League players played in the ARL season of 1996, with the notable exception of Gorden Tallis who sat the season out, and did not play again until he joined the Brisbane Broncos in 1997.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Super_League_war   (9913 words)

  
 The Soccer Daily: What I'm Watching: A Distinct Lack Of Choice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
That was the basis for the English Premier League, but the plans for a European Super League carried it one step further, allowing elite clubs to no longer share revenue or negotiate with the lesser lights of their own domestic top flights as well.
On a worldwide scale, the Brazilian league isn't much of a league at all, rather it's a series of competitions which is why it wasn't accepted as a true domestic first division by Fifa until the late 1960's.
If the proposed Super League in all of its many variances rely on the same rationales for running their league as they did for breaking away in the first place, there is a very real chance that they can fail structurally while succeeding economically.
www.ussoccerplayers.com /blog/2006/03/what-im-watching-distinct-lack-of.html   (5869 words)

  
 BBC News | Sport | Lindsay quits as Rugby League boss
Super League chairman Chris Caisley announced the shock move amid speculation that Mr Lindsay, 56, had been asked to resign from the job.
He was one of the pioneers of Super League and the World Club Championship and was also credited with the rise to world prominence of Wigan.
I was obviously one of the original architects of Super League in 1995 but events in Australia made it difficult to complete the task.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sport/45802.stm   (385 words)

  
 Rediff On The NeT: Secrets of the Super League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Italian newspaper Tuttosport reports that the Super League will kick off in the year 2000, incorporating the 32 leading clubs of Europe in an extended league format that carries, besides the usual financial incentives, a winner's jackpot of 100 billion lire ($57.3 million).
The 32 teams are to be split into two groups of 16, who will play each other in the home and away league format with the top four sides of each group qualifying for the knockout quarterfinal stage.
Tuttosport said the Super League, estimated to be worth 2.0 trillion lire ($1.1 billion) per season in television rights alone, was codenamed "Operation Gandalf".
www.rediff.com /sports/1998/aug/07a.htm   (363 words)

  
 Super Y League
The purpose of this league, for players U-8 to U-18, is to identify the elite players in the country and to give them strong and consistent coaching.
While not a professional league, it allows young high school and college age players to face stiff competition while still playing for their college and high school teams.
At the end of their first season, played in the PDL, the Storm where able to transfer four players to Europe; the most well known of which is Lars Hirchfeld who currently is with the Canadian National Team and Tottenham Hotspur of the English first division.
www.superyleague.com /mediacenter/H/46911_E.html   (721 words)

  
 Super League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Super League is the name of various sports competitions in different disciplines:
Super League, a prestigious European international competition in muay thai and kick boxing.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Super_League   (98 words)

  
 History of rugby league: Encyclopedia II - History of rugby league - After 1995
While the Super League war was being fought in Australia, Rupert Murdoch approached the British clubs with a view to forming Super League (Europe) (SLE), primarily as a way to gain the upper hand during his battle with Kerry Packer for control of the sport in Australia.
The Super League war, the financial problems of the 2000 Rugby League World Cup and the signing of several high-profile rugby league stars by the union game gave ammunition to this claim.
Meanwhile, in Australia the Super League war came to an end, with News International and the Australian Rugby League agreeing to merge their competition to create the National Rugby League, which commenced in 1998.
www.experiencefestival.com /a/History_of_rugby_league_-_After_1995/id/1473909   (725 words)

  
 Lindsay rules out extended stay at top | Super League | Rugby League | Sport | Telegraph
THE running of the Rugby Football League is about to undergo much needed re-organisation but Maurice Lindsay, who was chief executive for five years before returning to Wigan as chairman, has ruled himself out of contention for the post as full-time executive chairman.
Lindsay, chief executive from 1991-97, a period which embraced the bitter and divisive Super League "war," said yesterday that the position was not for him.
One of the first tasks of the new executive chairman and his committee could be to try to bring the RFL and Super League Europe under one roof - a necessary step if the sport is to achieve unity.
www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2001/11/27/sllind28.xml   (526 words)

  
 CNN/SI - World Soccer - FIFA issues stern warning to prospective Super League teams - Thursday July 30, 1998 06:59 PM
But the prospect of a breakaway Super League looms so large over European soccer that FIFA is already warning players and clubs who take part they'll be kicked out of the game.
According to the papers, established UEFA-backed competitions and domestic leagues will be powerless to stop clubs such as Inter and AC Milan, Juventus, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool from joining the Super League by the year 2000.
Critics say that such a league would make the rich clubs even richer while the vast majority which don't play in the Super League would lose TV revenue and prestige.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/world/news/1998/07/30/fifa_superleague   (675 words)

  
 Rleague.com - engage English Super League
The Engage Super League competition has long been tagged a retirement home for NRL footballers but that could all be changing with at least 12 players returning to NRL after stints with Super League clubs.
Super League (Europe) is the only full-time professional rugby league competition operating in the northern hemisphere.
Promotion and relegation between Super League and the Rugby League National Leagues was re-introduced, and in 2002 the SLE governing body re-integrated fully into the Rugby Football League.
www.rleague.com /db/comp/english_super_league/index.php   (1161 words)

  
 CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Columnists: sts Strachan - Europe watching, waiting
Europe has twice the population of North America in half the area.
Cold-war Europe was a forbidding place, and even in the more democratic countries, the creature comforts routinely enjoyed in North America were not prevalent.
The inevitable NHL influence would mean that there would be a significant amount of checking, but at the same time, the stars who have been denied a chance to display their talent over here would get a chance to exhibit it on the larger European surfaces.
slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Columnists/Strachan/2005/02/13/pf-929882.html   (1820 words)

  
 World RL News
Super League chairman Chris Caisley announced the shock move amid confusion and speculation that Lindsay was asked to resign from his old job.
He was one of the pioneers of Super League and the World Club Championship and was also the man credited with the rise to world prominence of Wigan.
Super League and Maurice Lindsay were synonymous when it was established in 1995 and I well understand Maurice wanting to complete the task.
www.awmuir.demon.co.uk /BlueSox/rlnews.htm   (985 words)

  
 Rugby Super League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Following a review of club facility and stadium standards across all parts of the sport, the Rugby Football League (RFL) has informed the ten member clubs in LHF Healthplan National League One of the improvements required before any club can be considered for promotion to engage Super League.
As part of the process, all LHF Healthplan National League One clubs have until 31st August 2005 to complete all required work should they wish to apply for promotion, in the event that they win the Grand Final.
A full summary of the work and improvements required of each club will be posted on the RFL website (www.rfl.uk.com) in due course.
www.superleague.co.uk /news/1005   (337 words)

  
 The History Of Rugby League
By 1939 the French league has 225 clubs and the national side beats England and Wales to take the European championship.
2004 - Super League IX smashed the average weekly attendance record with figures of 8,570, generated by an aggregate attendance of 1,439,851 supporters.
St Helens defeated Wigan Warriors in the Challenge Cup Final at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff in front of a sell-out 73,734 crowd, while Leeds Rhinos were crowned Super League Champions defeating Bradford Bulls in front of another sell-out crowd at the Grand Final.
www.napit.co.uk /viewus/infobank/rugby/superleague/history.php   (1554 words)

  
 CNBC Europe - Sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Super League - Rome: 17:00 - 18:00 CET
The Samsung Super League with FEI consists of the eight most prestigious horse shows at which the world's eight best national teams compare their merit.
The Super League is connected to the FEI Nations Cup series through a promotion/relegation system at the end of each season.
www.cnbceurope.com /sports   (421 words)

  
 2006 Samsung Super League
The eighth ranked team then competes in the Nation's Cup league with the goal of regaining their Super League status the following year.
At each Super League competition the riders compete in two rounds of show jumping, not against the clock but with a specific time to finish the course before incurring time penalties.
Teams earn points at each competition, with the last Super League competition of the season counting for double points, which can often create a dramatic conclusion at the season finale.
www.usef.org /ssleague   (250 words)

  
 ESPN.com Soccernet Europe: News - UEFA 'has no superleague plan'
We feel that we are responsible for the development of football in Europe - that means we have a responsibility towards the public.
Asked if a super league would ever be formed, Aigner replied: 'If the fans indicate they want it.
Aigner also expressed scepticism about proposals for an Atlantic league of 13 clubs from six countries who are concerned that they are being sidelined because of the small domestic markets in which they operate.
www.soccernet.com /europe/news/2001/0212/20010212uefasuperleague.html   (223 words)

  
 IIHF - NEWS
He made the team explore Europe during the 1973-74 season while playing 70 exhibition games against various opposition and waiting for a "Super League" to materialize.
The unidentified "Swiss businessman" and other entrepreneurs ("Group of people in Central Europe") with apparently too much money at their disposal who supposedly plan a new league on the old continent, should study the reasons for the grand fiasco of the European Super League in the 70s before even thinking about launching anything.
This is as far the European national associations, their leagues and their clubs are prepared to go right now as far as international club competition is concerned.
www.iihf.com /news/iihfpr4905.htm   (1661 words)

  
 Wakefield points penalty halved | Super League | Rugby League | Sport | Telegraph
WAKEFIELD'S place in the Tetley's Super League looked considerably more secure last night after the Rugby Football League's Board of Directors halved the four-point penalty imposed by the Super League for a breach of salary cap regulations last season.
The 12 Super League clubs have unanimously agreed to bring in an independent board of directors by Dec 21.
The Super League chairman Chris Caisley said: "I have always said that SLE should be run by executives and non-executives who have no interests in our member clubs."
www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2001/08/09/slwake10.xml   (572 words)

  
 Portugal 2004
It will be held from June 18-27 in 10 different cities with the Rio Maior National Training Center as the headquarters and site of the finals for each age bracket that will be played at its 8,000-seat stadium.
"This annual event will greatly enhance the experience of Super Y-League clubs and players by exposing them to European/International teams and technical staffs of leading European clubs and we are excited for the 2004 launch," said USL President Francisco Marcos, who is a partner of FMIB Ltd.
The UEFA Cup, the most important international soccer competition in Europe and second only to the FIFA World Cup in importance on the international soccer calendar, is in Portugal for the first time in 2004.
supery.uslsoccer.com /portugal/index_E.html   (441 words)

  
 uefa.com - Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The concept of top-flight clubs breaking away from a long-established league is hardly a new one.
There are 70 people involved in the league, too many." Meanwhile AEK Athens FC vice-president Nikos Koulis supported the move to end what he describes as a "power struggle".
However, the Super League debate is only the tip of the iceberg.
www.uefa.com /magazine/news/Kind=128/newsId=360074.html   (754 words)

  
 Super Bowl MVPs - SuperBowl.com - Official website of Super Bowl XLI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
He experienced those same conditions when he participated in NFL Europe League training camp two years ago in Atlanta.
Warner beat out teammate Marshall Faulk for league MVP honors after passing for 4,353 yards, 41 touchdowns and leading the Rams to a 13-3 mark in the regular season.
Previously, Warner got his opportunities in the Arena Football League and NFL Europe but had no serious shot in the NFL after being cut by the Green Bay Packers in 1994.
www.superbowl.com /history/mvps/game/sbxxxiv   (467 words)

  
 Bradford Bulls - Super League & World Champions Official Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
St Helens Rugby League Club and Bradford Bulls Rugby League Club, the two most successful teams in Super League era, are putting aside their minor differences of opinion and are firmly focussing their joint efforts on promoting the exhilarating on-field spectacles which their teams provide to an admiring sporting public around the world week-in, week-out.
Super League Champions and World Club Champions Bradford Bulls have received a major boost ahead of tonight’s game against Wigan with the news that Tongan wing sensation Tevita Vaikona has signed a new 3-year contact with the club and will remain at Odsal until the end of 2005.
Super League and World Club Champions, Bradford Bulls, have received a huge boost ahead of Friday Night’s Tetley’s Super League clash against the Halifax Blue Sox, with the news that the Ilkley based RBR Insurance Group have agreed to sponsor 3000 Junior Tickets for the game.
www.bradfordbulls.co.uk /bb_news.asp?arttype=2002   (9788 words)

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