2007 Catalans Dragons season

This is an article about the 2007 season of the Catalans Dragons.

Season summary

The Catalans Dragons started the new season well with only three losses after their first eight regular season games. However since then the Dragons form dropped considerably seeing them only achieve a sole victory in the following five rounds.

On 29 July 2007, the Dragons became the first French side and first non-English side to reach the final of the Rugby League Challenge Cup after beating Wigan Warriors 37–24 in the semi final.

Catalans will contest the 2007 Challenge Cup Final with St Helens at Wembley Stadium on 25 August 2007.

2007 season ladder

After Round 24:

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Last game
1	St Helens	24	17	0	7	703	376	+327	34	SAL 32–20 W
2	Leeds Rhinos	24	17	0	7	679	460	+229	34	HKR 34–18 W
3	Bradford Bulls	24	16	0	8	712	516	+196	28^1	HUD 26–22 L
4	Hull	24	12	2	10	530	495	+35	26	WAK 42–24 W
5	Warrington Wolves	24	12	0	12	621	640	−19	24	CAT 22–18 W
6	Huddersfield Giants	24	11	1	12	556	474	+82	23	BRA 26–22 W
7	Wakefield Trinity Wildcats	24	11	1	12	550	606	−56	23	HUL 42–24 L
8	Wigan Warriors	24	12	1	11	521	475	+46	21^2	HRL 16–16 D
9	Harlequins RL	24	9	3	12	449	558	−109	21	WIG 16–16 D
10	Catalans Dragons	24	8	1	15	494	611	−117	17	WAR 22–18 L
11	Hull Kingston Rovers	24	8	0	16	400	653	−253	16	LEE 34–18 L
12	Salford City Reds	24	6	1	17	417	778	−361	13	ST H 32–20 L

¹ Bradford deducted 2 points for breaching salary cap rules.

² Wigan deducted 4 points for breaching salary cap rules.

Players

Transfers for 2007 (In)

Name	Signed from	Fee	Date
Adam Mogg	Canberra Raiders	N/A	2006
Jason Croker	Canberra Raiders	N/A	2006
David Ferriol	Limoux Grizzlies	N/A	2006
Sébastien Raguin	Toulouse Olympique	N/A	2006
Casey McGuire	Brisbane Broncos	N/A	2006
Clint Greenshields	St George Illawarra Dragons	N/A	2006
Aaron Gorrell	St George Illawarra Dragons	N/A	2006
Luke Quigley	Newcastle Knights	N/A	2007

Losses

Losses
Player	Signed for	When left

Re-signings

Re-signings
Player	Until the end of

References