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Super League Grand Final

Locale	Old Trafford, Manchester
Teams	2
First meeting	1998
Latest meeting	2018
Next meeting	2019
Broadcasters	Sky Sports BBC
Stadiums	Old Trafford
Statistics
Meetings total	19
Most wins	Leeds Rhinos (8 titles)

The Super League Grand Final is the championship-deciding game of rugby league's Super League competition.^[1] It is played between two teams who have qualified via the Super League Play-Off series.^[2]

The winning team receives the Super League Trophy and goes on to play the NRL champions in the World Club Challenge.

The Harry Sunderland Trophy is awarded to the man of the match in the Grand Final.

Wigan Warriors are the current champions, after winning the 2018 Grand final

History

Use of a play-off system to decide the Championship brought back a rugby league tradition that had fallen out of use in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. The Super League Premiership replaced the Championship final but it was to decide the Premiership winners, not the Championship winners. The Premiership was discontinued after the introduction of the Super League play-off series in 1998.

The Super League Grand Final was introduced for the 1998 season. The inaugural Grand Final match was played that year on Saturday 24 October, between Wigan and Leeds. The venue of every Super League Grand Final to date has been Old Trafford, Manchester.^[3]

Venue

Leeds celebrating their 2008 Grand Final victory

The Grand Final is held at Old Trafford, Manchester, the largest capacity stadium in the North of England.

City	Stadium	Years
Manchester	Old Trafford	1998–2020

Attendances

Year	City	Stadium	Attendance
2015	Manchester	Old Trafford	73,512

Qualification for World Club Challenge

The winners of the Grand Final qualify to play the winners of the National Rugby League in the World Club Challenge. The Grand Final Runner up can play in the World Club Series if a team were to win the double.

Trophy

The winners of the Super League collect the Grand Final rings and the teams name, captain and year are engraved into the trophy. The winners also collect £100,000 with the runner up collecting £50,000.

The record for most Super League titles won is held by Leeds with eight titles. Leeds captain Kevin Sinfield currently holds the record for captaining the most Super League title winning sides after captaining Leeds to 7 of their grand final successes. St. Helens contested the final 6 years in a row (from 2006 until 2011) during which time they succeeded only once in lifting the trophy against Hull F.C. in 2006; after which they suffered consecutive defeats against Leeds in 2007, 2008, 2009, Wigan in 2010 and Leeds once again in 2011.

Awards

The Harry Sunderland Trophy is awarded to the Man-of-the-Match in the Super League Grand Final by the Rugby League Writers' Association. Named after Harry Sunderland, who was an Australian rugby league football administrator in both Australia and the United Kingdom, the Trophy was first awarded in the Rugby Football League Championship Final of the 1964–65 season following Sunderland's death.

Finals

The Super League Grand Final has been the championship-deciding game since Super League III in 1998:^[4] These final were held at Old Trafford.

Year	Winners	Score	Runner-up	Attendance
1998	Wigan	10–4	Leeds	43,533
1999	St. Helens	8–6	Bradford	50,717
2000	St. Helens	29–16	Wigan	58,132
2001	Bradford	37–6	Wigan	60,164
2002	St. Helens	19–18	Bradford	61,138
2003	Bradford	25–12	Wigan	65,537
2004	Leeds	16–8	Bradford	65,547
2005	Bradford	15–6	Leeds	65,728
2006	St. Helens	26–4	Hull	72,582
2007	Leeds	33–6	St. Helens	71,352
2008	Leeds	24–16	St. Helens	68,810
2009	Leeds	18–10	St. Helens	63,259
2010	Wigan	22–10	St. Helens	71,526
2011	Leeds	32–16	St. Helens	69,107
2012	Leeds	26–18	Warrington	70,676
2013	Wigan	30–16	Warrington	66,281
2014	St. Helens	14–6	Wigan	70,102
2015	Leeds	22–20	Wigan	73,512
2016	Wigan	12–6	Warrington	70,202
2017	Leeds	24–6	Castleford	72,827
2018	Wigan	12–4	Warrington	64,892

Results

Grand Final winners and runners up

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Years won	Years runner-up
Leeds Rhinos	8	2	2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017	1998, 2005
St Helens	5	5	1999, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2014	2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Wigan Warriors	5	5	1998, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2018	2000, 2001, 2003, 2014, 2015
Bradford Bulls	3	3	2001, 2003, 2005	1999, 2002, 2004
Warrington Wolves	0	4		2012, 2013, 2016, 2018
Hull F.C.	0	1		2006
Castleford	0	1		2017

The Double

In rugby league, the term 'the Double' is referring to the achievement of a club that wins the top division and Challenge Cup in the same season. To date, this has been achieved by a total ten different clubs but by only four different clubs during the Super League era.

	Club	Wins	Winning years
1	Wigan	7	1989–90, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 2013
2	St. Helens	3	1965–66, 1996, 2006
3	Huddersfield	2	1912–13, 1914–15
4	Broughton Rangers	1	1901–02
5	Halifax	1	1902–03
6	Hunslet	1	1907–08
7	Swinton	1	1927–28
8	Warrington	1	1953–54
9	Bradford	1	2003
10	Leeds	1	2015

The Treble

The Treble refers to the team who wins all three domestic honours on offer during the season; Grand Final, League Leaders' Shield and Challenge Cup. To date seven teams have won the treble, only Bradford Bulls, St. Helens and Leeds Rhinos have won the treble in the Super League era.

	Club	Wins	Winning years
1	Wigan	3	1991–92, 1992–93, 1994–95
2	Huddersfield	2	1912–13, 1914–15
3	St. Helens	2	1965–66, 2006
4	Hunslet	1	1907–08
5	Swinton	1	1927–28
6	Bradford	1	2003
7	Leeds	1	2015

All Four Cups

Winning all Four Cups refers to winning the Super League, League Leaders' Shield, Challenge Cup and World Club Challenge in one season. Not all of these cups were available in the past but have replaced other cups that could be won.

	Club	Wins	Winning years
1	Hunslet	1	1907–08
2	Huddersfield	1	1914–15
3	Swinton	1	1927–28
4	Wigan	1	1994–95
5	Bradford	1	2003–04
6	St. Helens	1	2006–07

Pre match Headliners

• 2011- Feeder were cancelled due to Manchester United not wanting a stage to be erected on the wet pitch

Records

Club Records

• Biggest win:

Bradford 37-6 Wigan (at Old Trafford, 2001)

• Highest all-time attendance:

73,512 Leeds v Wigan (at Old Trafford, 2015)

Player Records

• Most Grand Final appearances:

• 11:

Jamie Peacock (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015)

• Most Grand Final appearances as captain:

• 8:

Kevin Sinfield (2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015)

• Youngest finalist:

• 
  Leon Pryce Bradford v St Helens 1999 (18 years)

• Youngest winner:

• 
  Jack Walker Leeds v Castleford 2017 (18 years, 60 days)

• Oldest finalist (and winner):

• 
  Jamie Peacock Leeds v Wigan 2015 (37 years, 300 days)

See also

• Super League


• Super League Play-Off Series


• Old Trafford


• Super League Trophy


• Harry Sunderland Trophy

References

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