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The Rugby League Writers' Merit Award is awarded annually to a player, coach or official for their services to the game of rugby league. The inaugural winner of the award was Geoff Fletcher in 1982. The award winner is presented with the Arthur Brooks Trophy, [20] named after a former rugby league journalist for the Daily Mirror. [21]
The first step was to reduce the Championship from 14 clubs to 13 at the end of the 2024 season. This was achieved by the bottom two clubs being relegated to League 1 but only the League 1 champions being promoted. The team finishing third-bottom in 2024 played the team winning the League 1 play-offs for the 13th spot in the 2025 Championship. [5]
The Non-League Paper – Sunday paper summarising the weekend's non-league football action and the week's non-league football news; Racing + Racing Post – daily horse racing, greyhound racing and sports betting newspaper; The Rugby Paper – Sunday paper summarising the weekend's rugby union action and the week's rugby union news [48] The ...
The Rugby League Journal is a British rugby league periodical that is published quarterly. [1] It was founded in 2002. [2] The magazine is based in Egremont, near Whitehaven in Cumbria "for fans who don't want to forget" the game as it was prior to the arrival of Super League. [3] Its editor is Harry Edgar, the founder of Open Rugby (now Rugby ...
The 2025 Super League season, known as the 2025 Betfred Super League for sponsorship reasons, is the 30th season of the Super League and 131st season of rugby league in Great Britain. Wigan Warriors are the defending champions, having beaten Hull KR in the Grand Final , to win their seventh Super League title.
IMG Grading for the Rugby Football League is a set of proposals set out in 2022 by the British Rugby Football League's new strategic partner IMG, in which all clubs playing in the professional levels of the British rugby league system will be graded, with their rank determining which division each club will play. The proposals were accepted by ...
The new competition, named in honour of the founding of the Northern Union in 1895, was put to the Championship and League 1 clubs 1895, to start in the 2019 season. [1] [2] The inaugural 2019 tournament involved a qualifying first round for the eight League 1 clubs which entered, followed by a straight knock-out when the winners of that round joined the twelve Championship sides to make a ...
Rugby League World began life in May 1976 as Open Rugby, founded by Harry Edgar, who published and edited the title until July 1998 when it was sold to League Publications Ltd. Graham Clay then took over as editor, and oversaw the change of title to Rugby League World in March 1999.