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32-600: The First Utility Super League XIX was the official name for the 2014 Super League season. Fourteen teams competed over 27 rounds, after which the 8 highest finishing teams entered the play-offs to compete for a place in the Grand Final and a chance to win the championship and the Super League Trophy. 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

64-439: A B to an A licence. Catalans Dragons , Hull Kingston Rovers and Huddersfield Giants improved from a C to a B licence. There were three additional applications, with only one not meeting minimum requirements. On 31 March 2011, Widnes were granted a licence for the 2012-2014 Super League seasons. Halifax had also met the requirements for a licence, but were not awarded one. Barrow had failed with their licence bid. Planning for

96-560: A licence after also going into administration in the 2010–11 close season. Crusaders' former place in Super League was filled by Widnes. A summary of licence applications was released with a grading of each club's application by the RFL on 8 September 2011. Clubs were graded as follows: Using the RFL criteria, there has been an increase in the standard of Super League clubs on the previous licensing period . Wigan Warriors improved from

128-546: A more robust points operated system that ranked every professional club. Fox Soccer Plus Fox Soccer Plus (formerly Setanta Sports ) is an American sports channel dedicated to soccer and rugby league football . Launched in 2005 by the Irish sports broadcaster Setanta Sports to offer live and tape-delayed mainstream sports events in the United States and Caribbean , it was rebranded on March 1, 2010, as

160-687: A replay of the one game a week shown live first on FS2; all playoffs and the Grand Final are carried, along with preseason matches and the AFL Women's league. Fox Soccer Plus coverage comes from both Fox Footy and the Seven Network . With American-born Mason Cox playing in the league, most matches featuring Collingwood , Cox's current team, tend to be shown. Fox Soccer Plus' coverage of Italy's Serie A and France's Ligue 1 ended in May 2012, after coverage of both moved to BeIN Sport starting with

192-443: A second Super League licence. St Helens RLFC and Celtic Crusaders (later Crusaders Rugby League ) were also warned, but were reported to have a likely chance of having a new stadium by 2012. The news came just over a week after Widnes Vikings , who already had a new stadium , won their Northern Rail Cup Final against Barrow Raiders ; a key criterion for non-Super League clubs to obtain a first licence. Following this report, all of

224-614: A spin-off of the now-defunct Fox Soccer after its owner News Corporation acquired the channel and its coverage rights from Setanta in January 2010. Despite the September 2013 replacement of Fox Soccer with FXX , Fox Soccer Plus remains operational, although in recent years, the channel has lost many of its key events that had carried over from the Fox Soccer Channel. Launched on April 26, 2005, by Setanta Sports, which

256-500: Is based in Ireland , the channel had the rights to delayed Manchester United and Chelsea matches on MUTV and Chelsea TV , which were shown in segments within the channel. Any given broadcaster can only gain access to a maximum of two club channels under the current Premier League international TV rights. As of July 27, 2009 the ownership structure of Setanta Sports North America Limited changed. Setanta Sports North America Limited

288-715: The 2012–2013 season. Fox Soccer Plus also had German Bundesliga coverage until 2020 when ESPN assumed the rights. Fox Soccer Plus formerly held rights to all major properties in the SANZAAR countries—the Tri Nations involving the national teams of South Africa, New Zealand and Australia; Super Rugby , involving franchises from each of these countries; South Africa's Currie Cup ; and New Zealand's ITM Cup . However, in 2011, Fox Soccer Plus lost broadcasting rights for Super Rugby and Tri Nations to DirecTV . Fox Soccer Plus no longer has any rights to rugby union, previously

320-573: The Championship were: Halifax , Barrow Raiders , Featherstone Rovers , Widnes Vikings and Batley Bulldogs . Of these, only Halifax, Widnes and Barrow applied. Talking about the progress of some clubs towards fulfilling their commitments to either upgrade their stadium facilities and move to new ones during the 2009–11 three year licence period, Gary Tasker warned of "the potential implications [of] any failure to do so may have on their next application. Clubs need to be aware that we are raising

352-576: The NRL Grand Final. With the exception of the Origin games, the broadcast source is Fox League , which shares the basic video feed from Nine Network but inserts its own graphics and commentators, meaning that Fox Soccer Plus viewers do not have the option of the announcers and production values of Nine. Fox Soccer Plus typically carries four regular-season Australian Football League matches each week, with three of those shown live and one being

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384-411: The Super League competition in high quality, 21st Century stadium facilities remains a key strategic objective." This was, however, a complete waste of time as the RFL decided on a completely new structure for the 2015 Super League season which included bringing back promotion and relegation. However in 2023, the RFL in association with IMG effectively brought back licensing in the form of Grading ,

416-550: The UK only. End of season play-offs are shown on BBC Two across the whole country in a weekly highlights package on Sunday afternoons. 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: Commercial Radio Coverage: All Super League commentaries on any station are available via

448-514: 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

480-403: The bar for the next licence period." "Showcasing Super League in high quality stadium facilities remains a key objective," he said. In July 2009, the RFL was reported to have warned Salford City Reds , Castleford Tigers and Wakefield Trinity Wildcats , of which none had started construction on a new stadium, that progress must be made in order to avoid jeopardising their chances of obtaining

512-786: The channel had rights to the Europe-wide Heineken Cup , the English Premiership and the Pro12 in the Celtic nations and Italy (although RaboDirect Pro 12 League matches were non-existent in Fox Soccer Plus' schedule for the first six weeks of the season). Fox Soccer Plus is available nationally on DirecTV and Dish Network , and regionally on Verizon FiOS , Charter Spectrum , Cablevision , AT&T Uverse , and several streaming services. When

544-482: The channel in the U.S. and Caribbean on February 28, 2010. The channel was rebranded from Setanta Sports to Fox Soccer Plus on March 1, 2010, at 12:00 a.m. EST. With the loss of many of its marquee properties, very limited content remained on the channel. As of 2019, Fox Soccer Plus's soccer programming consists of replays of Major League Soccer games shown on Fox or FS1, replays of FIFA events (although some events from lower level FIFA competitions that Fox holds

576-576: The channel was known as Setanta Sports, it offered the Setanta Sports Xtra channel at no extra charge to DirecTV customers in case two live events need to be aired simultaneously. Fox Soccer Plus's 720p HD feed is available nationally on DirecTV (part-time), and regionally on Charter Spectrum, AT&T U-verse, and Cablevision . As a part of Setanta Sports, Setanta Premium was available only to select commercial subscribers for Pay-Per-View events while most are broadcast delayed on

608-439: The competition. The final Super League lineup for the 2012–14 period was set on 26 July 2011, when Crusaders announced that they had withdrawn their application for a licence, believing that they were not financially able to sustain themselves in Super League in the near future. The club had gone into administration after the 2010 season , This decision provided a reprieve for Wakefield Trinity, who had been expected to be denied

640-498: The full-time channel. This service charged customers a cover charge of $ 10–$ 20 per head, depending on the match. During its existence as Setanta Sports, Setanta also offered a broadband subscription service, Setanta Broadband , which allowed customers with a high speed internet connection to view some of the Setanta Sports channel content on their computers and includes access to pay-per-view events. Portuguese Liga soccer

672-437: The named Super League teams made moves to address stadium concerns: No upper limit on the number of Super League licences awarded had initially been set by the RFL, the option remained open to expand again in the future. Increasing the number of teams in the competition without changing the competition's format would be at odds with recent RFL and Super League decisions and reports. The RFL's plan for international success, which

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704-486: The next licence period, 2015–17, began in 2009. The RFL, working with its members in Super League and the Championship to agree minimum standards in Business Management, Facilities, Finance, Commercial/Marketing/Community and Playing Strength/Performance. Gary Tasker, the RFL's Director of Development, reiterated: "Clubs need to be aware that we are raising the bar for the next licence period and showcasing

736-691: 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). 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. Awards are presented for outstanding contributions and efforts to players and clubs in

768-617: The particular stations on-line streaming. 2012%E2%80%9314 Super League licences Applications for licences were accepted from all Super League clubs and Championship clubs could apply if they met certain criteria: The applicants were: Applications were made in 2011, and the Rugby Football League , operators of Super League, announced that at least one applicant from the Co-operative Championship would be accepted. Eligible applicants from

800-530: 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 , 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

832-455: The regular season. RFL Chief Executive Nigel Wood said, "The best performing [Championship] club will be guaranteed admission to Super League, either at the expense of the worst performing club or by expanding the competition," he said. On 4 August 2010, the RFL announced that the number of licences would remain at 14. Once Widnes were granted a licence, the RFL's decision meant that at least one existing Super League club would be left out of

864-725: The rights to are sometimes shown live) and occasionally, games from the Liga MX , Italy's Serie B , Copa do Brasil , the UEFA Nations League , the Coupe de France , and the Canadian Premier League . Fox Soccer Plus continues to air rugby league content from Australia and England. Currently, Fox Soccer Plus airs three of Australia's National Rugby League games per round, all three State of Origin games (often shown live on FS2 first), all playoff games, and

896-577: 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

928-536: The week leading up to the Super League Grand Final: 2014 is the third year of a five-year contract with Sky Sports to televise 70 matches per season. 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 with the Thursday night fixtures first being adopted at

960-584: 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 . Geographically,

992-523: Was owned by Sabloss. Both Setanta Sports Channel Ireland Limited and Setanta Sports North America Limited were licensed by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland. On January 27, 2010, Setanta Sports announced that they had reached an agreement with Fox Soccer Channel to transfer rights to select programming (soccer and rugby) that would be effective as of March 1. In addition, Setanta Sports announced that they would "cease" broadcasting

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1024-448: Was the result of an inquiry into England 's poor performance at the 2008 World Cup , states an intention to work with clubs to limit the number of games top players can take part in. The Magic Weekend event has allowed for a reduction in the number of games each club plays to 27, from 28; although a reason for the desire to reduce games in this case was to reduce the number of times Super League sides played each other more than twice in

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