Super League X

Super League X

League	Super League
Duration	28 Rounds
Number of teams	12
Highest attendance	25,004 Wigan Warriors vs St Helens (25 March)
Lowest attendance	2,682 Salford City Reds vs Huddersfield Giants (2 July)
Aggregate attendance	1,492,464 (average 8,884)
Broadcast partners	Sky Sports
2005 Season
Champions	Bradford Bulls
League Leaders	St Helens
Man of Steel	Jamie Lyon
Top point-scorer(s)	Paul Deacon (322)
Top try-scorer(s)	Mark Calderwood (27)
New franchise
Awarded to	Catalans Dragons
Promotion and relegation
Promoted from National League 1	Castleford Tigers
Relegated to National League 1	Leigh Centurions Widnes Vikings
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engage Super League X is the official name of 2005's Super League season. It was the 10th season of Super League and saw twelve teams from across England compete for the premiership. The season kicked off in early February, culminating in a six team play-off series

The Grand Final, held at Old Trafford on 15 October, saw Bradford Bulls crowned Champions. The Grand Final was the final match of a which itself was the climax of a league season that kicked off in early February.

Season summary

Either one or two teams were to be relegated from the league at the end of the season in order to make way for new entrants. The bottom team were certain to be relegated, in order to allow in French club Catalans Dragons. The second bottom team would only be relegated if the winner of National League One met the criteria for Super League entry. On the 3 October the Rugby Football League announced that both finalist in this competition, Castleford Tigers and Whitehaven were eligible for promotion, hence two teams were relegated.

The season was a commercial success, with a rise in average crowd size for the regular rounds of 8,887, continuing the trend of rises every year since 2001 . It is worth noting that this is the first time in the history of Super League the Grand Final has not included the league leader at the end of the regular season: St Helens were knocked out by Bradford Bulls in the semi-final.

Table

Super League X
	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	St Helens	28	23	1	4	1028	537	+491	47
2	Leeds Rhinos	28	22	0	6	1150	505	+645	44
3	Bradford Bulls	28	18	1	9	1038	684	+354	37
4	Warrington Wolves	28	18	0	10	792	702	+90	36
5	Hull F.C.	28	15	2	11	756	670	+86	32
6	London Broncos	28	13	2	13	800	718	+82	28
7	Wigan Warriors	28	14	0	14	698	718	−20	28
8	Huddersfield Giants	28	12	0	16	742	791	−49	24
9	Salford City Reds	28	11	0	17	549	732	−183	22
10	Wakefield Trinity Wildcats	28	10	0	18	716	997	−281	20
11	Widnes Vikings	28	6	1	21	598	1048	−450	13
12	Leigh Centurions	28	2	1	25	445	1210	−765	5

	Teams qualifying for the Play-offs
	Relegated

Source: Rugby League Project.
Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference.
Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.

Play-off series

Home team first

Elimination Play-offs

• 23 September: Bradford Bulls 44-22 London Broncos
• 24 September: Warrington Wolves 6-40 Hull FC

Semi-finals

• 1 October (Elimination SF): Bradford Bulls 71-0 Hull FC
• 30 September (Qualification SF): St Helens 16-19 Leeds Rhinos

Final Eliminator

• 7 October: St Helens 18-23 Bradford Bulls

Grand final

• 15 October: Leeds Rhinos 6-15 Bradford Bulls

References

External links

• Super League X at wigan.rlfans.com