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2021 Super League Grand Final
The 2021 Super League Grand Final was the 24th official Grand Final and championship-deciding game of Super League XXVI. The game was contested between Catalans Dragons and St Helens at Old Trafford. Background The two finalists finished first and second in the regular season with Catalans winning 19 of their 23 games and St Helens 16 out of 21. These league positions earned both clubs the chance to go to the second (semi-final) round of the play-offs and home advantage in their semi-final matches. Route to the final Catalans Dragons Catalans finished first in the regular season, to claim their first League Leaders Shield since entering the competition in 2000. In their semi-final, they played Hull KR, the lowest ranked winning team from the elimination finals. Catalans won the match 28–10, with tries from Benjamin Garcia, Josh Drinkwater, Arthur Mourgue, Fouad Yaha and Joe Chan to reach their first ever grand final, and becoming the first non English team in super league ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalans Dragons
The Catalans Dragons ( French: ''Dragons Catalans'', Catalan: ''Dracs Catalans'') are a professional rugby league club from Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales department, France. The team competes in the Super League and are the only team from outside England. The Dragons play regular home games at Stade Gilbert Brutus in the centre of the city. Catalans Dragons are the first non-British team to win the Challenge Cup since the competition started in 1896, after beating Warrington Wolves 20–14 at Wembley Stadium on 25 August 2018. The club was formed in 2000 by a merger of XIII Catalan and AS Saint-Estève into Union Treiziste Catalane (UTC). They won the 2005 French Championship and the Lord Derby Cup in 2004 and 2005. In 2006, they were granted a Super League licence, taking the name Catalans Dragons. UTC continues to compete in the French Championship's Elite One Championship as a feeder club for the Dragons, now under the name Saint-Estève XIII Catalan. History 2000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Garcia
Benjamin Garcia (born 5 April 1993) is a French professional rugby league footballer who plays as a forward and for the Catalans Dragons in the Super League and France at international level. He spent time with the Penrith Panthers as part of their squad during the 2016 NRL season. Background He was born in Apt, Vaucluse, France. He is of Spanish and Algerian descent. Playing career A SO Avignon junior and French junior international representative, Garcia moved to Australia to play for the Wynnum Manly Seagulls in the FOGS Colts Challenge in 2012. After winning the Seagulls' FOGS Colts player of the year award, Garcia moved into the Brisbane Broncos' National Youth Competition squad in 2013. In June 2013, he moved to the Catalans Dragons mid-season on a two-year contract, making his Super League debut against the Leeds Rhinos on 31 August 2013. On 10 June 2015, Garcia signed a two-year contract with Penrith of the National Rugby League, starting in 2016. Garcia was named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Makinson
Tommy Makinson (born 10 October 1991) is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays as a er for St Helens in the Betfred Super League and England at international level. He spent time on loan from St Helens at the Rochdale Hornets in Championship 1 and Whitehaven in the Championship. Earlier in his career he also played as a and . Makinson has played his entire Super League career to date for Saints, with whom he won the 2014, 2019, 2020, 2021 and the 2022 Super League Grand Finals. Background Makinson was born in Ince-in-Makerfield, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Career Makinson signed for the St Helens club from Wigan amateur side Wigan St Judes, after previously playing for Hindley before playing for Horton Hornets. He played in the 2011 Super League Grand Final defeat by the Leeds Rhinos at Old Trafford. St Helens reached the 2014 Super League Grand Final, and Makinson was selected to play on the wing, scoring a try in their 14–6 victory over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Maloney (rugby League)
James Maloney (born 15 June 1986) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for FC Lezignan XIII in the Elite One Championship. A or , Maloney also previously played for the Melbourne Storm, New Zealand Warriors, Sydney Roosters, Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and the Penrith Panthers in the NRL, and the Catalans Dragons in the Betfred Super League. He won the 2013 NRL Grand Final with the Roosters and the 2016 NRL Grand Final with the Sharks. During his career, he was an Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin, Country Origin and Prime Minister's XIII representative. Background Maloney was born in Orange. His father, Brian Maloney, was a and captain-coach of Orange CYMS in country New South Wales. Maloney played his junior rugby for the St Edwards Bears, Ourimbah Wyoming Magpies and the North Sydney Bears. Playing career Early career Coming down from the Central Coast, Maloney first trialled with North Sydney Bears, play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike McMeeken
Mike McMeeken (born 10 May 1994) is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays as a forward for the Catalans Dragons in the Super League and England at international level. He started his career in the Super League with the London Broncos, also playing on loan in League 1 at the London Skolars before joining the Tigers in 2015. He joined Catalans Dragons in December 2020, ahead of the 2021 season. Background McMeeken was born in Basingstoke, and raised in Fleet, Hampshire, England. He initially played rugby union from an early age, but was introduced to rugby league at ten years old, and began playing for amateur side West London Sharks. Club career He started his professional career at London Broncos, making his senior début in 2012. During the 2014 season, he scored his first try for the club in a defeat against Salford Red Devils. He also spent time at Championship One clubs London Skolars and Hemel Stags on dual-registration. Following London's relega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Helens RFC
St Helens R.F.C. is a professional rugby league club in St Helens, Merseyside who compete in the Super League, the top tier for rugby league in Great Britain. They are the current Champions, having won the last 4 consecutive titles, and become the first team in super league history to do so. Formed in 1873, St Helens are one of the 22 original members of the Northern Rugby Football Union and have been league champions on 16 occasions. St Helens are also the third most successful side in the Challenge Cup with 13 wins in 23 Final appearances. St Helens are founding members of the Super League and are one of only four teams to have appeared in every season since its creation in 1996. Since 1961 the club's home colours have been white, with a red "V" on the jersey. St Helens play their home games at the Totally Wicked Stadium in St Helens, having moved from their previous home, Knowsley Road, in 2012. History Early years (1873–1945) St Helens are the oldest members of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UTC+01
UTC+01:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +01:00. In ISO 8601, the associated time would be written as 2019-02-07T23:28:34+01:00. This time is used in: *Central European Time *West Africa Time *Western European Summer Time **British Summer Time **Irish Standard Time Central European Time (Northern Hemisphere winter) ''Principal cities: Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Rome, Milan, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Warsaw, Prague, Zagreb, Budapest, Brussels, Amsterdam, Vienna, Luxembourg City, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Bern, Zurich, Tirana, Sarajevo, Pristina, Valletta, Monte Carlo, Podgorica, Skopje, San Marino, Dogana, Belgrade, Bratislava, Ljubljana, Vatican City, Monaco, Monaco-Ville, Westside'' Europe Central Europe *Albania *Andorra *Austria *Belgium *Bosnia and Herzegovina *Croatia *Czech Republic *Denmark *France ( Metropolitan) *Germany *Hungary *Italy *Kosovo *Liechtenstein *Luxembourg *Malta *Monaco *Montenegro *Netherlands *North Macedonia *Norway **Sv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Summer Time
During British Summer Time (BST), civil time in the United Kingdom is advanced one hour forward of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), in effect changing the time zone from UTC±00:00 to UTC+01:00, so that mornings have one hour less daylight, and evenings one hour more. BST begins at 01:00 GMT every year on the last Sunday of March and ends at 01:00 GMT (02:00 BST) on the last Sunday of October. The starting and finishing times of daylight saving were aligned across the European Union on 22 October 1995, and the UK retained this alignment after it left the EU; both BST and Central European Summer Time begin and end on the same Sundays at 02:00 Central European Time, 01:00 GMT. Between 1972 and 1995, the BST period was defined as "beginning at two o'clock, Greenwich mean time, in the morning of the day after the third Saturday in March or, if that day is Easter Day, the day after the second Saturday in March, and ending at two o'clock, Greenwich mean time, in the morning of the day a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeds Rhinos
The Leeds Rhinos are a professional rugby league club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The club was formed in 1870 as Leeds St John's and play in the Super League, the top tier of English rugby league. They have played home matches at Headingley Stadium since 1890. In 1895, Leeds was one of twenty-two rugby clubs that broke away from the Rugby Football Union and formed what was originally the Northern Union, but is now the Rugby Football League. The club was known simply as Leeds until the end of the 1996 season, when they added Rhinos to their name. They are also historically known as the Loiners, referring to the demonym for a native of Leeds. Leeds have won 11 League Titles, 13 Challenge Cups and three World Club Challenge titles. Leeds play in blue and amber kits at home matches and historically have worn either white or yellow away kits. They share rivalries with St. Helens, Wigan Warriors, Bradford Bulls and Castleford Tigers as well as a local city rivalry with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Advantage
In team sports, the term home advantage – also called home ground, home field, home-field advantage, home court, home-court advantage, defender's advantage or home-ice advantage – describes the benefit that the home team is said to gain over the visiting team. This benefit has been attributed to psychological effects supporting fans have on the competitors or referees; to psychological or physiological advantages of playing near home in familiar situations; to the disadvantages away teams suffer from changing time zones or climates, or from the rigors of travel; and in some sports, to specific rules that favor the home team directly or indirectly. In baseball and cricket in particular, the difference may also be the result of the home team having been assembled to take advantage of the idiosyncrasies of the home ballpark/ ground, such as the distances to the outfield walls/ boundaries; most other sports are played in standardized venues. The term is also widely used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hull KR
Hull Kingston Rovers are a professional rugby league club based in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England, that competes in the Super League, the top tier of British rugby league. The club has won five league championships, and one Challenge Cup. Formed in 1882, the club joined the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1897. Hull Kingston Rovers most successful period was during the late 1970s and early 1980s, with Roger Millward leading the club to three league titles between 1978 and 1985, and the club's only Challenge Cup win in 1980. After a period of decline, the club competed in its first Super League season in 2007. Introduction Hull Kingston Rovers are one of two professional rugby league teams in Hull. Hull F.C. play on the west side of the city, and Hull KR on the east side, at Hull College Craven Park. The River Hull is the divide between the two. Hull KR's nickname, "The Robins", originates from their traditional playing colours of red and white. After a ten-ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Chan
Joe Chan (born 10 March 2002) is a French professional rugby league footballer who plays as a forward for the Melbourne Storm in the National Rugby League (NRL). He previously played for Catalans Dragons in the Super League and Saint-Esteve in the Elite One Championship. Background Chan is of Chinese-Māori heritage and is the son of former New Zealand international Alex Chan and brother of Tiaki Chan. He played his junior rugby league for St Clair Comets, before moving to Catalans Dragons. Chan is first cousins with Penrith Panthers centre Jesse McLean. Career In 2021 he made his Catalans debut in the Challenge Cup against the Warrington Wolves. On 22 April 2022 he signed a two year contract to play for the Melbourne Storm for the 2023 and 2024 seasons. Chan made his NRL debut in round 27 of the 2023 NRL season for the Melbourne Storm against Broncos at Suncorp Stadium. Being presented with jersey (cap number 233), Joe along with his father and former Melbourne Storm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
