- Super League XII
Infobox rugby football league season
title = Super League XII
league = Super League
sport =Rugby league
pixels = 200px
caption = The Engage Super League competition logo
duration =
no_of_teams = 12
attendance = 1,537,326 increase
(average 9,855)
TV =
season = 2007 Season
season_champs = leagueicon|Leeds Rhinos|16Leeds Rhinos
season_champ_name = Champions
league_champs = leagueicon|St Helens|16 St Helens
league_champ_name = League Leaders
second_place =
MVP = leagueicon|St Helens|12James Roby
MVP_link = Man of Steel Award
top_scorer = leagueicon|Wigan Warriors|12Pat Richards (248)
top_scorer_link =
top try scorer = leagueicon|Warrington Wolves|12Henry Fa'afili (21)
top try scorer_link=
promote =
promoted_from =
relegate = leagueicon|Salford City Reds|16Salford City Reds
relegate_to = Nat Lge 1
playoffs =
playoffs_link =
conf1 =
conf1_link =
conf1_champ =
conf1-runner-up =
conf2 =
conf2_link =
conf2_champ =
conf2-runner-up =
playoffs_MVP =
playoffs_MVP_link =
finals =
finals_link =
finals_champ =
finals-runner-up =
finals_MVP =
finals_MVP_link =
seasonslist =
seasonslistnames = Rugby league
prevseason_link = Super League XI
prevseason_year = 2006
nextseason_link = Super League XIII
nextseason_year = 2008Engage Super League XII is the official name for the year
2007 's Super League season in the sport ofrugby league .The 2007 season kicked off on the weekend of
February 2 ,2007 at theGalpharm Stadium . For the first time, the league had a staggered start due to theWorld Club Challenge between St Helens andBrisbane Broncos . The first round of matches began on the weekend of February 9th-11th 2007.St Helens were the defending Super League and Challenge Cup winners.
Hull Kingston Rovers played in the Super League for the first time ever after being promoted from National League 1 in2006 . This season also included the first Millennium Magic weekend, which took place on the weekend of the 5th and 6th of May 2007 inCardiff .Super League XII featured 12 teams and had 27 rounds including the Millennium Magic round. St Helens, Leeds, Bradford, Hull FC, Huddersfield and Wigan qualified for the end of season play-offs and Salford City Reds were relegated to National League 1.
The first weekend of the play-offs saw both Bradford and Huddersfield defeated narrowly by both Wigan and Hull respectively. The second weekend of the play-offs saw St Helens defeat Leeds and get an instant passageway into the grand final whilst Wigan overcame Hull at the KC Stadium to set up a semi final encounter with Leeds. The semi final saw Leeds easily dispose of a tired Wigan side that had come from sixth and saw Leeds enter the grand final against St Helens in which they won convincingly to lift the Super League trophy for 2007.
uper League XII Teams
External links
* [http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=516 Super League XII at wigan.rlfans.com]
* [http://therfl.co.uk Rugby Football League]
* [http://www.superleague.co.uk Super League website]
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