Super League VII

Super League VII (styled Tetley's Super League VII due to sponsorship from Tetley's Brewery) was the year 2002's Super League championship season, the 108th season of top-level professional rugby league in Britain, and the seventh run by Super League. Twelve clubs from across England competed during the season, culminating in the 2002 Super League Grand Final between St. Helens and Bradford Bulls, which St Helens won, claiming their third premiership in four seasons.

Super League VII
League	Super League
Duration	28 Rounds
Teams	12
Highest attendance	18,789 Wigan Warriors vs St. Helens (8 Sept)
Lowest attendance	2,211 Salford City Reds vs London Broncos (19 May)
Broadcast partners	Sky Sports
2002 Season
Champions	St. Helens 4th Super League title 11th English title
League Leaders	St. Helens
Man of Steel	Paul Sculthorpe
Top point-scorer(s)	Paul Deacon (301)
Top try-scorer(s)	Dennis Moran (22)
Promotion and relegation
Promoted from National League One	Huddersfield Giants
Relegated to National League One	Salford City Reds

Lee Briers of Warrington Wolves scored a record-equalling 5 drop goals against Halifax Blue Sox in the Super League match on 25 May 2002.[1]

Operational rules

Salary cap limits were adjusted in an attempt to make Super League more competitive:[2]

The cap for money spent on players' salaries was set at £1.8 million per club from the 2002 season.[2] The previous limit had allowed the clubs to spend either £0.75 million per year or a higher amount as long as it was no more than 50% of the clubs "salary cap relevant income".[2]
The cap change allowed some clubs in Super League to spend more money on players than they had previously but forced a reduction in spending at others. Wigan Warriors were given 12 months' dispensation to spend up to £2.3 million due to existing contract commitments.[3]

Table

Super League VII
Pos.	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qual.
1	St. Helens	28	23	0	5	927	522	+405	46	Play-off Semi Final
2	Bradford Bulls	28	23	0	5	910	519	+391	46	Play-off Semi Final
3	Wigan Warriors	28	19	1	8	817	475	+342	39	Play-off Elimination Final
4	Leeds Rhinos	28	17	0	11	865	700	+165	34
5	Hull	28	16	0	12	742	674	+68	32
6	Castleford Tigers	28	14	2	12	736	615	+121	30
7	Widnes Vikings	28	14	1	13	590	716	−126	29
8	London Broncos	28	13	1	14	661	635	+26	27
9	Halifax Blue Sox	28	8	0	20	558	856	−298	16
10	Warrington Wolves	28	7	0	21	483	878	−395	14
11	Wakefield Trinity Wildcats	28	5	2	21	566	899	−333	12
12	Salford City Reds	28	5	1	22	490	856	−366	11	Relegated to National League 1

Source: Rugby League Project.
Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference.
Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.

Play-offs

Grand Final

References

"RFL All Time Records". Archived from the original on 2009-09-16. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
Michael Fisher (2001-01-12). "Salary cap to be squeezed to £1.8m". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
John Whalley and Rob Wildman (2001-07-29). "RFL move to keep players". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2009-05-06.

External links

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St Helens
Est. 1873 in St Helens, England
The Club	History Records Honours Players International representatives Coaches Hall of Fame
Home grounds	City Ground Knowsley Road (1890-2010) Halton Stadium (2011) Totally Wicked Stadium (2012-Present)
Hall of Fame	Jack Arkwright Frank Barrow Billy Benyon Tommy Bishop Frank Carlton Eric Chisnall Harry Cook Kel Coslett Keiron Cunningham Bob Dagnall Bernard Dwyer Alf Ellaby Les Fairclough Ray French Doug Greenall Jeff Heaton Neil Holding Dick Huddart Les Jones Chris Joynt Vince Karalius Len Killeen Barry Ledger Steve Llewellyn Sean Long Paul Loughlin John Mantle Tommy Martyn Roy Mathias Stan McCormick Glyn Moses Alex Murphy Paul Newlove George Nicholls George Parsons Geoff Pimblett Harry Pinner Alan Prescott Austin Rhodes Wilf Smith Jim Stott Jim Sullivan Abe Terry Phil Veivers Tom van Vollenhoven John Warlow Cliff Watson
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Super League Dream Team – 2002
1 Kris Radlinski 2 Tevita Vaikona 3 Keith Senior 4 Martin Gleeson 5 Darren Albert 6 Danny Orr 7 Adrian Lam 8 Terry O'Connor 9 Keiron Cunningham 10 Stuart Fielden 11 Michael Smith 12 Jamie Peacock 13 Paul Sculthorpe

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