2014 Super League season

Super League XIX will be the third and final 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 2014 season, all fourteen teams from the previous season will compete, although Salford have changed their names from the City Reds to the Red Devils.

At the end of the season, Super League will be reduced to 12 teams, as part of the re-structuring of Super League and the RFL Championship.^[4]

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 Trinity, Leeds, Castleford, Hull F.C. and Hull Kingston Rovers. 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).

	Team		Stadium	Capacity	City/Area
		Bradford Bulls (2014 season)	Provident Stadium	27,000	Bradford, West Yorkshire
		Castleford Tigers (2014 season)	The Wish Communications Stadium	11,750	Castleford, West Yorkshire
		Catalans Dragons (2014 season)	Stade Gilbert Brutus	14,000	Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
		Huddersfield Giants (2014 season)	John Smith's Stadium	24,544	Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
		Hull F.C. (2014 season)	Kingston Communications Stadium	25,404	Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
		Hull Kingston Rovers (2014 season)	Craven Park	9,471	Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
		Leeds Rhinos (2014 season)	Headingley Carnegie Stadium	22,250	Leeds, West Yorkshire
		London Broncos (2014 season)	The Hive Stadium	5,176	Edgware, London
		Salford Red Devils (2014 season)	AJ Bell Stadium	12,000	Salford, Greater Manchester
		St Helens R.F.C. (2014 season)	Langtree Park	18,000	St. Helens, Merseyside
		Wakefield Trinity Wildcats (2014 season)	Rapid Solicitors Stadium	11,000	Wakefield, West Yorkshire
		Warrington Wolves (2014 season)	Halliwell Jones Stadium	15,500	Warrington, Cheshire
		Widnes Vikings (2014 season)	Select Security Stadium	13,500	Widnes, Cheshire, England
		Wigan Warriors (2014 season)	DW Stadium	25,138	Wigan, Greater Manchester

The regular league season sees the 14 teams play each other twice (one home, one away) plus an additional match, as part of the Magic Weekend, over 27 matches. The team who finishes 1st at the end of the regular season win the League Leaders' Shield.

As of 14 September 2014

Top try-scorers edit Rank Player Club Tries 1 Joel Monaghan Warrington Wolves 28 2 Morgan Escaré Catalans Dragons 27 3 Thomas Makinson St Helens R.F.C. 25 4= Michael Oldfield Catalans Dragons 20 Jermaine McGillvary Huddersfield Giants 6 Josh Charnley Wigan Warriors 19 7 Elliott Whitehead Catalans Dragons 18 8= Justin Carney Castleford Tigers 17 Michael Shenton Castleford Tigers Joe Wardle Huddersfield Giants Joe Burgess Wigan Warriors

Top try assists edit Rank Player Club Assists 1 Danny Brough Huddersfield Giants 31 2 Marc Sneyd Castleford Tigers 30 3= Matthew Smith Wigan Warriors 25 Rangi Chase Salford Red Devils 5 Kevin Brown Widnes Vikings 24 6 Travis Burns Hull Kingston Rovers 21 7= Liam Finn Castleford Tigers 20 Gareth O'Brien Warrington Wolves James Roby St. Helens 10 Tim Smith Salford Red Devils 19

Top goalscorers edit Rank Player Club Goals 1 Marc Sneyd Castleford Tigers 99 2= Danny Brough Huddersfield Giants 96 Matty Smith Wigan Warriors 4 Travis Burns Hull Kingston Rovers 78 5 Kevin Sinfield Leeds Rhinos 74 Danny Tickle Widnes Vikings

Top points scorers edit Rank Player Club Points 1 Marc Sneyd Castleford Tigers 224 2 Matty Smith Wigan Warriors 214 3 Danny Brough Huddersfield Giants 208 4 Chris Bridge Widnes Vikings 178 5 Travis Burns Hull Kingston Rovers 170

Red Cards edit Rank Player Club [1][2][7] 1= Jason Crookes Hull F.C. 1 Scott Moore London Broncos Kevin Sinfield Leeds Rhinos Joel Moon Leeds Rhinos Alex Walmsley St. Helens Lama Tasi Salford Red Devils Ben Flower Wigan Warriors Yellow Cards edit Rank Player Club [1][2][7] 1= Justin Carney Castleford Tigers 2 Travis Burns Hull Kingston Rovers 2= Liam Finn Castleford Tigers 1 Richard Mathers Wakefield Trinity Wildcats Joe Wardle Huddersfield Giants Ben Flower Wigan Warriors John Bateman Wigan Warriors Jamie Shaul Hull F.C. Denny Solomona London Broncos Scott Wheeldon Castleford Tigers Gene Ormsby Warrington Wolves Éloi Pélissier Catalans Dragons Alex Walmsley St. Helens Richard Whiting Hull F.C. Liam Farrell Wigan Warriors Gareth Hock Salford Red Devils Benjamin Garcia Catalans Dragons Adam Sidlow Bradford Bulls Ryan Bailey Leeds Rhinos Chris Riley Wakefield Trinity Wildcats Paul Wood Warrington Wolves Michael McIlorum Wigan Warriors Danny Brough Huddersfield Giants Adam Milner Castleford Tigers Eddy Pettybourne Wigan Warriors Chris Dean Widnes Vikings Vincent Duport Catalans Dragons Paddy Flynn Widnes Vikings Atelea Vea London Broncos Justin Poore Hull Kingston Rovers Jordan Rankin Hull F.C. Jason Chan Huddersfield Giants Macgraff Leuluai Widnes Vikings Richard Moore Wakefield Trinity Wildcats Jason Crookes Hull F.C.

Awards are presented for outstanding contributions and efforts to players and clubs in the week leading up to the Super League Grand Final:^[8]

• Man of Steel: Daryl Clark, Castleford Tigers
• Coach of the year: Daryl Powell, Castleford Tigers
• Super League club of the year: Widnes Vikings
• Young player of the year: Daryl Clark, Castleford Tigers
• Foundation of the year: Warrington Wolves
• Rhino "Top Gun":
• Metre-maker: James Roby, St Helens
• Top Try Scorer: Joel Monaghan, Warrington Wolves
• Outstanding Achievement Award:
• Hit Man:

2014 is the third year of a five-year contract with Sky Sports to televise 70 matches per season.^[9] The deal which runs until 2016 is worth £90million.

Sky Sports coverage in the UK see two live matches broadcast each week, which will usually be shown at 20:00 on Thursday and Friday nights^[10] with the Thursday night fixtures first being adopted at the back-end of the 2013 season.

Regular commentators were Eddie Hemmings and Mike Stephenson with summarisers including Phil Clarke, Brian Carney, Barrie McDermott and Terry O'Connor. Sky will broadcast highlights on Sunday Nights on Super League - Full Time, usually airing at 10pm.

BBC Sport broadcast a highlights programme called the Super League Show, presented by Tanya Arnold. The BBC show two weekly broadcasts of the programme. The first is only to the BBC North West, Yorkshire & North Midlands, North East & Cumbria, and East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire regions on Monday evenings at 23:35 on BBC One,^[11] while a repeat showing is shown nationally on BBC Two on Tuesday afternoons at 13:30. The Super League Show is also available for one week after broadcast for streaming or download via the BBC iPlayer in the UK only.^[12] End of season play-offs are shown on BBC Two across the whole country in a weekly highlights package on Sunday afternoons.^[13]

Internationally, Super League is shown live or delayed on Showtime Sports (Middle East), Māori Television (New Zealand), TV 2 Sport (Norway), NTV+ (Russia), Fox Soccer Plus (United States), Eurosport (Australia) or Sportsnet World (Canada).

BBC Coverage:

• BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra (National DAB Digital Radio) will carry two Super League commentaries each week on Thursday and Friday nights (both kick off 8pm); this will be through the 5 Live Rugby league programme which is presented by Dave Woods with a guest summariser (usually a Super League player or coach) and also includes interviews and debate..
• BBC Radio Humberside will have full match commentary of all Hull KR and Hull matches.
• BBC Radio Leeds carry commentaries featuring Bradford, Leeds, Castleford, Wakefield and Huddersfield.
• BBC Radio Manchester will carry commentary of Wigan and Salford whilst sharing commentary of Warrington with BBC Radio Merseyside.
• BBC Radio Merseyside (will have commentary on St Helens and Widnes matches whilst sharing commentary of Warrington with BBC Radio Manchester.

Commercial Radio Coverage:

• 102.4 Wish FM will carry commentaries of Wigan & St Helens matches.
• 107.2 Wire FM will carry commentaries on Warrington Home and Away.
• BCB 106.6 (Bradford Community Broadcasting) have full match commentary of Bradford Bulls home and away.
• Radio Yorkshire will launch in March carrying Super League commentaries.
• Radio Warrington (Online Station) all Warrington home games and some away games.
• Grand Sud FM covers every Catalans Dragons Home Match (in French).
• Radio France Bleu Roussillon covers every Catalans Dragons Away Match (in French).

All Super League commentaries on any station are available via the particular stations on-line streaming.

• Official Site
• BBC Rugby League