2018 Super League

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Florian Super League
Season 2018
Champions TBC
Relegated Northcliff Broncos (License revoked)
FMRL World Club Championships TBC
2019

The 2018 Super League will be the 2nd season of professional rugby league in the Florian Republic and the first in Freeland. 16 teams compete for over 30 rounds and an additional, round the Florian Magic Weekend after round 15. The eight highest teams enter the playoffs for a place in the Super League Grand Final.

Northcliff Vikings are the current champions, after successfully beating Northsilver Panthers, after successfully beating 34 –18 in the previous season in a sell-out crowd of 74,500 at Northcliff Arena to win the inaugural championship.

Teams

Four clubs will play in the league for the first time. These teams are Blackoak Bulls,Havenbarrow Rovers,Northcliff Broncos and Northcliff Eagles. Before the start of the season, it was announced that the league would expand to 18 teams and that Northcliff Broncos would get their license revoked. On the 14th December that Northcliff Broncos would not be permitted to play in the 2018 Super League and they were effectively replaced by Freelander club, KR Viten Sharks.

Club Established City Stadium Capacity Titles Most recent
Blackoak Bulls colours.png Blackoak Bulls 2017 Blackoak Blackoak metropolitan Stadium 10,300 N/A N/A
Blackoak Giants colours.png Blackoak Giants 2017 Blackoak Stone Brewery Stadium 55,097 N/A N/A
Dragonmoor Devils colours.png Dragonmoor Devils 2017 Dragonmoor Dragonmoor City Stadium 12,000 N/A N/A
Dragonmoor Dragons colours.png Dragonmoor Dragons 2017 Dragonmoor Thomas Lémery Stadium 55,000 N/A N/A
Havenbarrow Rovers colours.png Havenbarrow Rovers 2017 Havenbarrow Post Office Way 6,750 N/A N/A
Havenbarrow Wolves colours.png Havenbarrow Wolves 2017 Havenbarrow Wolves Park 15,200 N/A N/A
Meadowedge Warriors colours.png Meadowedge Warriors 2017 Meadowedge Warriors Sport Arena 45,500 N/A N/A
Newhedge Centurions colours.png Newhedge Centurions 2017 Newhedge Newhedge Sports Village 12,000 N/A N/A
Newmarsh Saints colours.png Newmarsh Saints 2017 Newmarsh Saints Road 23,000 N/A N/A
Northsilver Panthers colours.png Northsilver Panthers 2017 Northsilver Panthers Arena 25,586 N/A N/A
KR Viten Sharks colours.png KR Viten Sharks 2017 Viten,Freeland Viten Arena 30,000 N/A N/A
Northcliff Eagles colours.png Northcliff Eagles 2017 Northcliff The Beehive 6,418 N/A N/A
Northcliff Tigers colours.png Northcliff Tigers 2017 Northcliff Northcliff Sports Complex 20,000 N/A N/A
Northcliff Vikings colours.png Northcliff Vikings 2017 Northcliff Northcliff Arena 75,000 1 2017
Stonehall Bears colours.png Stonehall Rhinos 2017 Stonehall The Jungle 26,500 N/A N/A
Westlake Wildcats colours.png Westlake Wildcats 2017 Westlake 'Wild' Park 5,333 N/A N/A

Pre-season

The 2018 pre-season featured the FMRL World Club Championships with Northcliff Vikings entering the group stage.In addition, Havenbarrow Wolves,Northsilver Panthers and Westlake Wildcats entered the qualifying stage. Havenbarrow Wolves and Westlake Wildcats failed to qualify for the group stage, however Northsilver Panthers would end up reaching the final of the tournament but would end up losing to Deacon RLFC. Northcliff Vikings failed to impress and finished bottom of group B.

Regular Season

Teams will play 30 regular season games with the league being paused after round 15 to accomodate the Florian Magic Weekend.

Table

Team Pld W D L F A Pts Qualification
Northcliff Vikings Qualification to playoffs
Northsilver Panthers
Stonehall Rhinos
Westlake Wildcats
Northcliff Tigers
Blackoak Bulls
Newmarsh Saints
Northcliff Eagles
Blackoak Giants
Dragonmoor Devils
Meadowedge Warriors
KR Viten Sharks
Havenbarrow Wolves
Havenbarrow Rovers
Newhedge Centurions Relegation to Fastbet Cup or Premiership
Dragonmoor Dragons

Playoffs

The Final will be played at Northcliff Arena,Northcliff.

  Qualifying / Elimination finals Semi-finals Preliminary finals Grand final
                                   
  QF1: Minor Premier's home ground  
1    
4       SF1: City of Blackoak Stadium  
         
EF1: Red Bear Park             PF1: Home ground of Qualifying final winner 1
5            
8                 GF:  
         
  EF2: Red Bear Park       PF2: Northcliff Arena      
6              
7       SF2: Red Star Stadium          
         
QF2: Regular season runner-up home ground          
2    
3    


Transfers

Players

Player 2017 Club 2018 Club Cost
Cqin Zyxveldtsen Craitland flag.png Tiem Hearts Northcliff Tigers colours.png Northcliff Tigers Dual Registration
Jón Klevets Craitland flag.png CT Hornets Dragonmoor Dragons colours.png Dragonmoor Dragons Dual Registration
Kraig Fredriksen Craitland flag.png Southern Aztecs Stonehall Rhinos colours.png Stonehall Rhinos Dual Registration
Sean Powell Meadowedge Warriors colours.png Meadowedge Warriors Stonehall Rhinos colours.png Stonehall Rhinos Cr 143,222
Frank Walker Stonehall Rhinos colours.png Stonehall Rhinos Havenbarrow Rovers colours.png Havenbarrow Rovers Cr 313,423
George Baker Blackoak Bulls colours.png Blackoak Bulls Stonehall Rhinos colours.png Stonehall Rhinos Cr 609,753
Rhys Baxter Northcliff Vikings colours.png Northcliff Vikings Stonehall Rhinos colours.png Stonehall Rhinos Cr 2,588,337
Tom Slater Meadowedge Warriors colours.png Meadowedge Warriors Northcliff Vikings colours.png Northcliff Vikings Free
Tom Wallace Northcliff Tigers colours.png Northcliff Tigers Northcliff Broncos colours.png Northcliff Broncos Cr 2,250
Robert Sharp Northcliff Broncos colours.png Northcliff Broncos KR Viten Sharks colours.png KR Viten Sharks Free
James Carter Northcliff Broncos colours.png Northcliff Broncos KR Viten Sharks colours.png KR Viten Sharks Free
Jason Buckley Northcliff Broncos colours.png Northcliff Broncos KR Viten Sharks colours.png KR Viten Sharks Free
Max Hall Northcliff Broncos colours.png Northcliff Broncos KR Viten Sharks colours.png KR Viten Sharks Free
Callum Smith Northcliff Broncos colours.png Northcliff Broncos KR Viten Sharks colours.png KR Viten Sharks Free
Scott Palmer Northcliff Broncos colours.png Northcliff Broncos KR Viten Sharks colours.png KR Viten Sharks Free
Tom McCrone Newmarsh Olympic Newmarsh Saints colours.png Newmarsh Saints Free

Coach

Coach 2017 Club 2018 Club
Blake Slater Northcliff Broncos colours.png Northcliff Broncos Stonehall Rhinos colours.png Stonehall Rhinos

Attendances

Average attendances

Club Home
Games
Total Average Highest Lowest

Top 10 attendances

Rank Home club Away club Stadium Attendance

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End of season awards

  • Man of Steel:
  • Coach of the year:
  • Super League club of the year:

Media

Country TV Broadcasters Radio Broadcasters
Craitland Craitland VVision none
Kingdom of Coria Kingdom of Coria StadioSport StadioSport Radio
Florian Republic Florian Republic Sports Hub
Red Sports
Free Sports Radio
Senya Senya Senya TV Sport none
Mercury Mercury RLM24 none
Freeland Freeland PRF1TV none