2015 Super League season

Super League XX is the first year since 2008 in which there is a promotion and relegation with the Championship. Super League has been reduced to 12 teams as part of the re-structuring of Super League and the Championship.{{cite web|title=Super League set to feature 12 teams from 2015|url=http://superleague.co.uk/article/29347/super-league-set-to-feature|publisher=Super League|access-date=23 January 2014}}

Eleven teams in Super League are from the North of England: five teams, Warrington, St. Helens, Salford, Wigan and Widnes, west of the Pennines in the historic county of Lancashire and six teams, Huddersfield, Wakefield Trinity, Leeds, Castleford, Hull F.C. and Hull Kingston Rovers, to the east in Yorkshire. Catalans Dragons, in Perpignan, France, are the only team outside the North of England. With Bradford Bulls and London Broncos being relegated last season, this leaves St Helens, Wigan Warriors, Warrington Wolves and Leeds Rhinos as the only teams to have played in every season of Super League since 1996.

The regular season sees teams play each other home and away, and one team for a third time at the Magic Weekend. After 23 games, the "Super 8's" begin and the league is split into two mini leagues. Teams finishing in the top 8 compete in the Super League Super 8s while teams finishing in the bottom four will join the top 4 teams from the Championship in The Qualifiers to determine who will play in next seasons Super League.

{{2015 Super League regular season table}}

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The Super League Super 8's sees the top 8 Super League teams play 7 games each. Each team's points are carried over with top 4 teams entering the playoffs for the Super League Grand Final.

{{2015 Rugby League Super 8s table}}

The Qualifiers sees the bottom 4 teams from Super League join the top 4 teams from the Championship. The points totals are reset to 0 and each team plays 7 games each, playing every other team once. After 7 games each the teams finishing 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gain qualification to Super League XXI in 2016. The teams finishing 4th and 5th playoff in the Million Pound Game for the final spot in next seasons Super League. The loser of the Million Pound Game along with the teams finishing 6th, 7th and 8th will play in next seasons Championship

{{2015 Rugby League Qualifiers table}}

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Awards are presented for outstanding contributions and efforts to players and clubs in the week leading up to the Super League Grand Final:{{cite web|url=http://www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=15588|title=Man of Steel on SLTV|date=6 October 2009|publisher=Super League|access-date=6 October 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120825215346/http://www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=15588|archive-date=25 August 2012|df=dmy-all}}

• Man of Steel: Zak Hardaker {{leagueicon|Leeds|16}}
• Coach of the year: Brian McDermott {{leagueicon|Leeds|16}}
• Super League club of the year: {{leagueicon|Leeds|16}} Leeds Rhinos
• Young player of the year: George Williams {{leagueicon|Wigan|16}}
• Foundation of the year: {{leagueicon|Warrington|16}} Warrington Wolves
• Rhino "Top Gun": Kevin Sinfield {{leagueicon|Leeds|16}}
• Metre-maker: Alex Walmsley {{leagueicon|St Helens|16}} (4092)
• Top Try Scorer: Jermaine McGillvary {{leagueicon|Huddersfield|16}} (27)
• Outstanding Achievement Award:
• Hit Man: Danny Houghton {{leagueicon|Hull FC|16}}

2015 is the fourth year of a five-year contract with Sky Sports to televise 70 matches per season.{{cite web |url= http://business.sky.com/media/documents/6345331_040811%20-%20Sky%20Sports%20has%20been%20awarded%20exclusive%20live%20rights%20to%20Super%20League%20until%20the%20end%20of%202016.pdf|publisher= Sky Sports|title= Super League deal |author=Sky Sports |date=4 August 2011 |access-date=4 August 2011}} The deal which runs until 2016 is worth £90million.

Sky Sports coverage in the UK will see two live matches broadcast each week, usually at 8:00 pm on Thursday and Friday nights.

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Regular commentators will be Eddie Hemmings and Mike Stephenson with summarisers including Phil Clarke, Brian Carney, Barrie McDermott and Terry O'Connor. Sky will broadcast highlights on Sunday nights on Super League - Full Time at 10 p.m.

BBC Sport will broadcast a highlights programme called the Super League Show, presented by Tanya Arnold. The BBC show two weekly broadcasts of the programme, the first to the BBC North West, Yorkshire, North East and Cumbria, and East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire regions on Monday evenings at 11:35 p.m. on BBC One,{{cite web

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|title= BBC's Super League Show returns

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|access-date=19 February 2012}} while a repeat showing is shown nationally on BBC Two on Tuesday afternoons at 1.30 p.m. The Super League Show is also available for one week after broadcast for streaming or download via the BBC iPlayer in the UK only.{{cite web

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|title= BBC One - Super League Show

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|access-date=19 February 2012}} End of season play-offs are shown on BBC Two across the whole country in a weekly highlights package on Sunday afternoons.{{cite web|title=BBC Two - Rugby League: Super League Play-Offs - Highlights|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dqk4x|publisher=BBC|access-date=14 September 2013}}

Internationally, Super League is shown live or delayed on Showtime Sports (Middle East), Sky Sport (New Zealand), TV 2 Sport (Norway), Fox Soccer Plus (United States), Fox Sports (Australia) and Sportsnet World (Canada).

BBC Coverage:

• BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra (National DAB Digital Radio) will carry two Super League commentaries each week on Thursday and Friday nights (both kick off 8pm); this will be through the 5 Live Rugby league programme which is presented by Dave Woods with a guest summariser (usually a Super League player or coach) and also includes interviews and debate..
• BBC Radio Humberside will have full match commentary of all Hull KR and Hull matches.
• BBC Radio Leeds carry commentaries featuring Leeds, Castleford, Wakefield and Huddersfield.
• BBC Radio Manchester will carry commentary of Wigan and Salford whilst sharing commentary of Warrington with BBC Radio Merseyside.
• BBC Radio Merseyside (will have commentary on St Helens and Widnes matches whilst sharing commentary of Warrington with BBC Radio Manchester.

Commercial Radio Coverage:

• 102.4 Wish FM will carry commentaries of Wigan & St Helens matches.
• 107.2 Wire FM will carry commentaries on Warrington and Widnes matches.
• Radio Yorkshire will launch in March carrying Super League commentaries.
• Radio Warrington (Online Station) all Warrington home games and some away games.
• Grand Sud FM covers every Catalans Dragons Home Match (in French).
• Radio France Bleu Roussillon covers every Catalans Dragons Away Match (in French).

All Super League commentaries on any station are available via the particular stations on-line streaming.

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• [http://www.superleague.co.uk/ Official Site]
• [https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/ BBC Rugby League]

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