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Super League X

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Duration
  
28 Rounds

Location
  
England, United Kingdom

Broadcast partners
  
Sky Sports

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)

Attendance
  
1,492,464 (average 8,884)

Champions
  
Bradford Bulls 4th Super League title 6th English title

Period
  
February 2005 – 15 October 2005

People also search for
  
Super League VIII, Super League IX

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

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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 [1]. 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.

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

    Super League X Wikipedia


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