1999 Super League season
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JJB Sports Super League IV was the official name for the year 1999's Super League championship season, the 105th season of top-level professional rugby league football in Britain, and the fourth championship run by the Super League. The start of Super League IV saw the emergence of a North East based Rugby League Club, Gateshead Thunder as well as newly promoted Wakefield Trinity Wildcats to expand the league to fourteen teams.
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Super League IV | |
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League | Super League |
Duration | 30 Rounds |
Teams | 14 |
Highest attendance | 24,020 Bradford Bulls vs Leeds Rhinos (3 Sept) |
Lowest attendance | 1,580 Gateshead Thunder vs Hull Sharks (19 May) |
Broadcast partners | Sky Sports |
1999 Season | |
Champions | St. Helens 2nd Super League title 9th British title |
League Leaders | Bradford Bulls |
Man of Steel | Adrian Vowles |
Top point-scorer(s) | Iestyn Harris (325) |
Top try-scorer(s) | Toa Kohe-Love (25) |
Left League | |
Merged with Hull FC Merger with Huddersfield Giants | Gateshead Thunder; Sheffield Eagles |
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