2011 Super League season
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The Engage Super League XVI was the official name for the 2011 Super League season.[2] Fourteen teams competed over 27 rounds, after which the highest finishing teams entered the play-offs to compete for a place in the Grand Final and a chance to win the championship and the Super League Trophy. Leeds Rhinos claimed their fifth Super League crown, tying the record previously held by St. Helens, whilst the Warrington Wolves lifted the League Leaders' Shield.
Super League XVI | |
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League | Super League |
Duration | 27 Rounds |
Teams | 14 |
Highest attendance | 24,057 Wigan Warriors vs St Helens (22 April) |
Lowest attendance | 1,766 Harlequins vs Celtic Crusaders (20 February) |
Average attendance | 9,615[1] |
Attendance | 990,439[1] |
Broadcast partners | Sky Sports Nine Network Orange Sport America One Sport Klub |
2011 season | |
Champions | Leeds Rhinos 5th Super League title 8th British title |
League Leaders | Warrington Wolves |
Runners-up | St. Helens |
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Licences | |
Licence awarded to | Widnes Vikings |
Licence removed from | Crusdaers |
The season kicked off on 12 February with the Annual "Millennium Magic Weekend", which was brought forward from its usual slot in May.
The 2011 season included the introduction of the Rugby League International Origin Match, wherein the England national rugby league team played the RL Exiles, an outfit made up of Australians and New Zealanders playing for Super League clubs. This contest is intended to henceforth become an annual fixture to replace the previously existing annual test against the France national rugby league team, due to the onesidedness of such contests in recent years.