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Engage Super League XV was the official name for the 2010 Super League season. Fourteen teams competed over 27 rounds. The season officially kicked off on 5 February with the Crusaders versus the Leeds Rhinos on 29 January at Crusaders' new homeground at the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham . Crusaders halfback Michael Witt scored the first points of the season with a penalty goal and the Rhinos came away with the first competition points, posting a 34 to 6 victory.

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57-668: The season came to a conclusion with Wigan Warriors beating St. Helens 22-10 in the Super League Grand Final on 2 October with two tries for Martin Gleeson . Super League XV was the second year of a licensed Super League . Under this system, promotion and relegation between Super League and National League One was abolished, and 14 teams were granted licences subject to certain criteria. All twelve teams from Super League XIII were given places, as well as former Super League team Salford City Reds and Crusaders . Geographically,

114-470: A crowd of 36,895 at Central Park for an unofficial World Club Championship (though many who were at Central Park still claim the attendance was closer to 50,000). It was the first time an English club side had beaten a team of Australians at rugby league since the 1978 Kangaroo tour . After Lowe left in 1989, Australian John Monie , a former premiership winning coach with the Parramatta Eels , continued

171-527: A cup tie meant Wigan were huge favourites against the unfancied Sheffield Eagles . But on 2 May 1998 the Eagles would go down in rugby league history causing the biggest upset in the competition's history with a 17–8 win. Super League Show The Super League Show was a weekly television programme showing highlights from the Super League . The show was initially presented by Harry Gration, and from 2012

228-606: A meeting at the Royal Hotel, Standishgate. The meeting saw around 50 members enroll into the club most of whom were members of the cricket club. The following committee was selected: T.R. Ellis, H.V. Kyrke, J. Sayers, E.R. Walker, J. Smith, J. Souter, H. Wall and R. Procter. The recently re-elected Mayor of Wigan Mr Nathan Eckersley was made club President. Many of the club's founding members were well-to-do; some owned businesses or were solicitors, magistrates and suchlike. Wigan F.C. played on Folly Field, near Upper Dicconson Street and used

285-482: A player, for Wigan was at Mount Pleasant , Batley , on 23 February 1946. He remained at Central Park for another six seasons as coach. In 1948 Wigan took part in the first televised rugby league match when their 8–3 Challenge Cup Final victory over Bradford Northern was broadcast to the Midlands. In another first this was the first rugby league match to be attended by the reigning monarch, King George VI , who presented

342-435: A record of three wins and three draws. An inability to recruit enough regular and quality players led to many members of Upholland Football Club joining the club in 1876. This was a significant boost to the playing ranks. The club changed its name on 20 October 1876 and became Wigan & District Football Club to represent the new influx of players which had joined from the outskirts of town. The Upholland club disbanded due to

399-460: A record £280,000 profit but by 1993 this had become a loss of £300,000 on a turnover of £3 million, in no small way to the cost of the Whitbread Stand that had been built at the clubhouse end of Central Park in 1991–92 at an estimated cost of £1.3 million. By March 1994 Wigan's wage bill topped £2 million a year. John Dorahy became coach for the 1993 season. Despite supervising Wigan through to

456-437: A studio, but in later series were filmed pitch-side at one of the week's games. In February 2024, BBC Sport announced a three-year deal with the league, replacing Channel 4 as the league's live free-to-air partner. The deal added 15 live matches a year to the broadcaster's platforms, but ended the show after 25 years, with condensed highlights of all games instead being added to BBC iPlayer within 24 hours. The programme

513-568: Is shown on Sky Sports and is rebroadcast on the Internet. BBC Sport broadcast a highlights programme called the Super League Show , usually presented by Harry Gration . The BBC have elected to broadcast this only to the North West , Yorkshire and North Midlands , North East and Cumbria , and East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire regions on a Sunday. A national repeat is broadcast overnight during

570-415: The 1911–12 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and won. On 12 May 1921, Wigan became a limited company. In June 1922 Jim Sullivan joined Wigan from Cardiff RFC when he was only 17. His cash value was put at £750, which was a staggering signing-on fee for an adolescent who had not yet played 13-a-side rugby (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £137,700 in 2015). His first game

627-601: The 1923–24 season when they beat Oldham 21–4 in Rochdale . In 1933 the Prince of Wales attended Central Park , becoming the first royal to watch a rugby league match. On 25 October 1938 Australian Harry Sunderland arrived in Wigan to take up the duties of Secretary-Manager at Central Park. On 28 September the following year, Sunderland's contract was terminated and he and the club parted company. The outbreak of World War II disrupted

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684-492: The Brick Community Stadium since 1999. Before this time, the club's home was Central Park and had been since 1902. The club first wore the cherry and white colours it is now synonymous for in 1885 and adopted these colours on a permanent basis in late 1888. The club has won 24 league titles (17 first division and 7 Super League ) , 21 Challenge Cups and 5 World Club Challenges . Wigan's most successful period

741-600: The Challenge Cup and the Rugby Football League Championship , Dorahy was dismissed in May 1994, only days after the club's return from Wembley . In a statement by the club, Dorahy was said to have been sacked for "gross misconduct". Graeme West was appointed as coach, after fans petitioned for him to get the job. In his first month as coach, at the end of the 1993–94 Rugby Football League season West secured

798-572: The Rugby Football League during Super League XV, which were later deemed "guilty" and resulted in disciplinary action. The offenses were graded, depending on severity, in alphabetical order, "A" being less severe than "B". 2010 was the second of a three-year broadcasting agreement between the RFL and BSkyB for Sky Sports to screen matches exclusively live within the United Kingdom. The deal for

855-661: The Rugby Football League Championship but Wigan continued to play in the Lancashire War League and the Emergency War League. During the war years the club went through the 1940–41 season unbeaten although they lost the Championship final. They lost the 1944 Challenge Cup Final over two games to Bradford Northern 8–3 but made up for it beating Dewsbury in the Championship Final. Jim Sullivan's last game, as

912-520: The 'A' team. He later became one of the most successful and famous Wigan players of all time. Eric Ashton signed for Wigan for £150 in 1955. Wigan went to Wembley six times in the Boston / Ashton era and won three times. The visit of St. Helens on 27 March 1959 produced Central Park's all-time record attendance of 47,747 which is still a record for any rugby league game in Lancashire . Wigan went on to win

969-645: The 1905–06 season they won their first cup, in rugby league, the Lancashire County Cup . Between 1906 and 1923 Wigan won the Lancashire League another seven times and the Lancashire Cup another four times. Wigan were the first winners of the Lancashire cup. Wigan played New Zealand on 9 November 1907 and ran out winners by 12 points to 8 in front of a crowd of around 30,000. Great Britain, then known as

1026-528: The 1966 Lancashire Cup Final. Billy Boston played his last match in the cherry and white, against Wakefield Trinity at the end of April 1968. Wigan celebrated the centenary year of the club in November 1972, with a match against Australia at Central Park, on Saturday 17 November, the result finished as a 18–18 draw. Wigan pulled off a surprise victory 19–9 over Salford in the Lancashire Cup Final which

1083-450: The 2009, 2010 and 2011 season was worth in excess of £50 million. Sky Sports ' continued coverage in the UK sees two live matches broadcast each week - one on Friday at 7:30pm and another at 6pm on Saturday. Regular commentators are Eddie Hemmings and Mike Stephenson with summarisers including Phil Clarke , Barrie McDermott and Terry O'Connor . Highlights are shown on Boots N' All which

1140-622: The Betfred Super League , the top tier of the British rugby league system . Formed in 1872, the club is a founding member of the Northern Rugby Football Union following the schism in 1895. The club is currently the most successful club in the history of world Rugby League having won 163 trophies in total (8 of these were won prior to the formation of the Northern Rugby Football Union ). The club has played its home games at

1197-679: The First Division Premiership Trophy against Castleford, and then traveled with the team to Brisbane, guiding them in their 1994 World Club Challenge victory over Australian premiers, the Brisbane Broncos in front of a WCC record attendance of 54,220. At the end of his first full season, he and the team won the League Championship, Challenge Cup, Regal Trophy, and Premiership—the 'Grand Slam' of all 4 trophies. Even though Wigan dominated rugby league from 1985 to 1995, it

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1254-499: The Lancashire Senior Competition. Wigan became sub-tenants of Springfield Park, which they shared with Wigan United AFC, playing their first game there on 14 September 1901. A crowd of 4,000 saw them beat Morecambe 12–0. During this season Wigan won the Lancashire Senior Competition. Wigan's record crowd at Springfield was 10,000 when they beat Widnes on 19 March 1902. The last game was on 28 April 1902 when Wigan beat

1311-750: The Lancashire league. With automatic promotion and relegation, they faced dropping down a division, and potential financial ruin. In 1895 Wigan joined with other clubs from Yorkshire and Lancashire to found the Northern Union which led eventually to the sport of rugby league . This was a result of the breakaway from the Rugby Football Union . The County Championship was introduced in October 1895 with Cheshire entertaining Lancashire. The Red Rose side contained three players from Wigan: Winstanley (full back) and Unsworth and Brown (forwards). In 1896–97, due to

1368-533: The Northern Union, played their first-ever test against New Zealand on 25 January 1908. James "Jim" Leytham , Bert Jenkins and John "Johnny" Thomas of Wigan were in the home side and Leytham scored a try. Jenkins and Thomas had previously played in the first Welsh game against New Zealand on 1 January 1908. On Saturday 28 October 1911, Wigan played a match against the Australasian team which visited England on

1425-452: The Rest of Lancashire Senior Competition. Two meetings were held by Wigan members during the season to discuss the possibility of turning the club into a Limited Company but the idea did not take off. On 6 September 1902, Wigan played at Central Park for the first time in the opening match of the newly formed First Division. An estimated crowd of 9,000 spectators saw Wigan beat Batley 14–8. In

1482-598: The UK. Orange Sport TV in France shows every Catalans Dragons home match live and also some other matches which are broadcast in the UK live on Sky. Internationally Super League is shown live on Showtime Sports (Middle East), Sky Sport (New Zealand), NTV+ (Russia), SportKlub (Eastern Europe). 2010 was the second year of a three-year deal in which the Nine Network in Australia show up to 70 live games from Super League over

1539-485: The board accepted his decision "with reluctance". Vince Karalius then took over but was sacked in September 1979, he was replaced by Kel Coslett . In 1980, Wigan were relegated from the top flight for the first time in their history and Coslett was replaced by George Fairbairn as player-coach. During the second division season they recorded a record average attendance for the division of 8,198. Wigan won promotion back to

1596-597: The club after 23 November 1877 that year as the club disbanded. Many of the members who joined Wigan from Upholland eventually returned to the Upholland club which was re-formed following the Wigan club being disbanded. On 22 September 1879, the club was re-formed as Wigan Wasps Football Club by new members at a meeting in the Dicconson Arms. The main instigators of the re-formation of the club anew were W.L. Baldwin, J. Slevin , J. Underwood, Joe Wardle and others. Mr. Underwood

1653-400: The club anymore but Mr Marsden felt it would be courtesy to ask what their intentions were in relation to football. The secretary of the cricket club wrote back saying it was completely justified for Wigan Wasps to become Wigan Football Club again as the cricketers had no intention of forming another football club with that name or being involved with football at all and as such the club remained

1710-481: The club was renamed as the Wigan Warriors. Wigan's dominance came under threat with the new league now fully professional and the introduction of the salary cap and the 20/20 rule. After going out of the Challenge Cup to Salford in 1996 and St Helens in 1997, they returned to Wembley for the final time in 1998. Still undefeated in the league and the fact coach John Monie —in his second spell at Wigan—had never lost

1767-985: The conclusion of 27 round regular season. To decide the grand finalists from the top eight finishing teams, Super League adopts the unique Super League play-off system . The finals will conclude with the 2010 Super League Grand Final . Week 1. Qualifying/Elimination play-offs: Fixtures decided by regular reason finishing positions. Higher ranked teams play lower ranked teams. Higher ranked teams receive home ground advantage. Week 2. Preliminary semi-finals: Fixtures decided by regular season finishing positions. Higher ranked teams play lower ranked teams. Higher ranked teams receive home ground advantage. Week 3. Qualifying semi-finals: Winners of Qualifying play-offs play winners of Qualifying semi-finals. Fixtures decided by club call . Winners of Qualifying play-offs receive home ground advantage. Awards have been presented for outstanding contributions and efforts to players and clubs: The following table lists all incidents that were reviewed by

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1824-476: The game 19–14 after holding off a Saints comeback. Mick Sullivan moved to Wigan for a then record £9,500 fee in 1957. Joe Egan returned to coach Wigan and during his time they won the Championship play-off final in 1960 defeating Wakefield Trinity 21–5, the Challenge Cup in 1958, 1959, 13–9 against Workington Town and 30–13 against Hull F.C. respectively before losing in 12–6 to St. Helens in 1961 which

1881-629: The increased number of Northern Union teams the Northern League was abandoned in favour of two County Senior leagues. The second half of the season saw the introduction of the Northern Union Cup (later known as the Rugby League Cup). Wigan reached the third round before being knocked out by St. Helens. In 1904, fourteen clubs resigned from the two county leagues to form a new Northern Rugby League for season 1901–02. Wigan, however, remained in

1938-514: The large number of players who joined Wigan. The club moved and played its home games at the Wigan Cricket Club at Prescott Street just off Frog Lane. The first game at Prescott Street was played against St. Helens on 25 November 1876 which Wigan won comfortably. The club did not fulfil all its fixtures in the 1877/78 season. The club played its last match that season against Liverpool Wanderers on 17 November 1877. There are no current records of

1995-503: The league game 82–6 at Maine Road , but lost the return union game 44–19 at Twickenham . In July 1996 Andy Farrell was named the Wigan club's captain. Farrell enjoyed a fantastic 1996 and was rewarded with the Man of Steel Award . Eric Hughes became coach of Wigan Warriors, replacing Graeme West in February 1997 following an early exit from the Challenge Cup in 2 consecutive years. In 1997

2052-410: The league, this led to an upsurge in the fortunes of the club. Between February and October 1987, under new coach, former New Zealand coach Graham Lowe , Wigan won a record 29 games in a row as follows: 20 Division One matches, 3 Premiership Trophy matches, 4 Lancashire Cup matches, 1 Charity Shield final, 1 World Club Challenge Final. Wigan defeated Australian club Manly-Warringah 8–2 in front of

2109-451: The most important player for Wigan during this era. He made a total of 290 appearances, scoring 131 tries and was involved in the club winning 8 trophies. Wigan, Leigh and Salford were suspended by the RFU for breaking the strict amateur code despite their argument that broken-time payments were necessary to avoid undue hardship for their working class players. The clubs were placed joint bottom of

2166-425: The nearby Dicconson Arms Hotel as a HQ. The first match took place on 30 November when members played against each other in a practice match at Folly Field the match attracted around 2,000 spectators. After a series of trial and practice matches, they travelled to Warrington to play their first competitive match on 18 January 1873. The game ended in a draw. The club played six games in its first season finishing with

2223-679: The only rugby football club in town at that time. In 1883, Wigan won its first trophy, the Wigan Union Charity Cup. The club won the West Lancashire and Border Towns Union Cup in 1884 and the Wigan Union Charity Cup again in 1885. The club played in cherry and white jerseys for the first time on 26 September 1885. In 1888 they hosted the touring New Zealand Maoris. During this era Wigan were represented by some iconic players. James 'Jim' Slevin , Ned Bullough , William 'Billy' Atkinson and John 'Jack' Anderton . Jim Slevin arguably being

2280-643: The only team based in France and are outside of the United Kingdom . Crusaders are the only team in Wales , and Harlequins are the only team to be based in a capital city ( London ). The RFL announced two new rule interpretations intended to increase player safety in the tackle: The 'club trained player rule' entered its third year and made a planned adjustment: January February April May August September October The play-offs commence following

2337-725: The particular stations on-line streaming. ESPN3 has worldwide broadband rights. Starting from 9 April 2009, all of the matches shown on Sky Sports are also available live online via Livestation everywhere in the world excluding the US, Puerto Rico, UK, Ireland, France, Monaco, Australia and New Zealand. In the United Kingdom, BBC London 94.9, BBC Radio Wales and Radio Warrington cover Harlequins, Crusaders (home games) and Warrington (home games) respectively. Wigan Warriors Wigan Warriors are an English professional Rugby League club based in Wigan , Greater Manchester . The club competes in

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2394-592: The season. In the United States America One show live Super League games from 2010. Channel Nine started coverage of 2010 matches from 7 March at midnight (leading into Monday morning) due to coverage of the Winter Olympics they could not show the earlier matches. Super League XV is covered extensively by BBC Local Radio : The competition is also covered on commercial radio coverage: All Super League commentaries on any station are available via

2451-465: The success at Central Park. From 1988 to 1995 Wigan won the Challenge Cup 8 seasons in a row including their 27–0 win over St Helens in 1989, the first time any team had been held scoreless in a Cup Final at Wembley; this period was Wigan's most successful period to date. They also won the Championship seven times, League Cup four times, Premiership Trophy three times, Charity Shield twice and three World Club Championships. In February 1990, Wigan announced

2508-428: The top flight the following season but Fairbairn lasted no longer than May 1981 before moving to Hull Kingston Rovers . Maurice Bamford took over as coach of Wigan before being sacked in May 1982 and was replaced by Alex Murphy . Maurice Lindsay came to Wigan in the early 1980s to join directors Jack Robinson, Tom Rathbone and ex-player Jack Hilton. Wigan became one of the first teams to go full-time professional in

2565-416: The town centre as a HQ a few years later. In 1881 the club reverted to its original name of Wigan Football Club. It had been suggested that the club should do so but this was finally decided when Club Secretary William Marsden wrote to Wigan Cricket Club to see if they would be forming another football club in the near future as they had done when originally creating Wigan. The cricketers weren't involved with

2622-443: The trophy. On Saturday 27 October 1951, 33,230 spectators saw Wigan beat Leigh 14–6 in the final of the Lancashire Cup at Station Road , Swinton . In 1952 Wigan won their sixth consecutive Lancashire Cup. Wigan were also featured in the first league match to be broadcast, a clash with Wakefield Trinity at Central Park on 12 January 1952. In 1953 Wigan signed Billy Boston for £150. 8,000 fans saw Billy Boston début for Wigan in

2679-609: The vast majority of teams in Super League are based in the north of England , four teams – Warrington , St. Helens , Salford and Wigan – 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

2736-507: The week, the BBC Director of Sport, Richard Moseley, commented that this move was in response to the growing popularity and awareness of the sport, and the large number of requests from people who want to watch it elsewhere in the UK. End of season play-offs are shown across the whole country in a highlights package. Super League Show is available for streaming or downloaded using the BBC iPlayer in

2793-566: The whole country in a highlights package. According to Harry Gration, one of the programme's first pundits, ex-Great Britain captain Garry Schofield , was effectively removed from the show for being too controversial. The Super League Show picked up the Royal Television Society Sports Awards for best Nations and Regions Sports Actuality Programme in May 2007. It followed this up by winning Best Sports Programme at

2850-436: Was at home against Widnes on 27 August 1921, and he scored ten points in a 21–0 win. Almost inevitably, Jim Sullivan scored the first points in the first Challenge Cup Final to be played at Wembley Stadium , kicking a penalty after only three minutes of the inaugural Challenge Cup Final against Dewsbury in 1929 in which he led Wigan to a 13–2 victory. Sullivan became player-coach in 1932. Wigan won their first Challenge Cup in

2907-407: Was broadcast to the North West , Yorkshire & North Midlands , North East & Cumbria , and East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire regions on Monday nights at 10.40 p.m. From 2008, it was repeated nationally on BBC Two , originally overnight on Mondays, but then Tuesday lunchtimes, and streamed in the UK on BBC iPlayer. End of season play-offs and World Club Challenge highlights were shown across

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2964-475: Was during the 1980s and 1990s, with the club winning seven consecutive league titles, eight Challenge Cup finals in a row (1988–1995) and winning the World Club Challenge on three occasions including the club's win against Brisbane Broncos at Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre with victory in 1994 . On 21 November 1872, Wigan Football Club was founded by members of Wigan Cricket Club following

3021-465: Was played at Wilderspool , Warrington on Saturday 13 October 1973. Cup holders Salford had lost only one match prior to the final, against the touring Australians. Ted Toohey became coach of Wigan in May 1974 before being sacked in January 1975, this would set the pattern of coaches lasting one or two seasons before being replaced. Star coach, Joe Coan then took control until he resigned in September 1976,

3078-510: Was presented by Tanya Arnold . Match commentary came from Dave Woods , Matt Newsum, Sharon Shortle and Tim Steere, with some additional commentary occasionally coming from BBC Local Radio commentators. The programme was produced by PDI Media at BBC Yorkshire's studios in Leeds . Gration and Arnold were joined by one or more guests each week, who gave their thoughts and analysis of the match highlights shown. These segments were originally filmed in

3135-578: Was secretary and Mr. Alfred Hodgkinson was named as the treasurer. Many of the new members involved in the re-establishment of the club had also been involved with the Hare & Hounds running club and were of a more working-class background than the cricketers who had originally founded the club. The club moved back to Folly Field and used the Dicconson Arms Hotel as a HQ again before using the Legs of Man Hotel in

3192-485: Was the only season the club achieved this feat. This would be somewhat surpassed in 2024, with Wigan winning all 4 trophies available to them in the same season, the World Club Challenge, Challenge Cup, League Leaders Shield and Super League Grand Final. Wigan played in a special 2 match challenge series against Bath RFC in 1996, with one game played under league rules, and the other under union rules. Wigan won

3249-426: Was to be his last game in charge. Wigan continued to have regular success in both league and cup competitions until 1974 when Wigan went eight seasons without winning any leagues or cups. Eric Ashton coached Wigan from 1963 to 1973. In 1966, Wigan locked television cameras out of their ground in the belief that they affected attendances. They were fined £500 by the Rugby Football League . Wigan beat Oldham 16–13 in

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