Super 8 (SRL)
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The Super 8 is the highest Student Rugby League
competition in the United Kingdom.
The Super 8 competition features the strongest university teams in the UK. Teams are invited to enter only after meeting strict licensing criteria.
Five matches from the Super 8 including the inaugural Grand Final were televised live and free-to-view
on Premier Sports
in 2011.
was founded in 1967 when a rugby league team was created at Leeds University by Andrew Cudbertson, Jack Abernathy and Cec Thompson
, other teams soon joined in areas of the United Kingdom
which lay outside of the games traditional heartlands. The first university game was between Leeds and Liverpool in 1968. A year later the Universities and Colleges Rugby League was formed after student pioneers fought hard to get the sport recognised in higher education.
The elite Super 8 competition was formed as the Super 6 in 2008.
Student Rugby League
The Student Rugby League is the organisation which administrates university and college rugby league in the United Kingdom, on behalf of the Rugby Football League and BUCS....
competition in the United Kingdom.
The Super 8 competition features the strongest university teams in the UK. Teams are invited to enter only after meeting strict licensing criteria.
Five matches from the Super 8 including the inaugural Grand Final were televised live and free-to-view
Free-to-view
Free-to-view is a term used for free of charge and encrypted audio and/or video contents transmission that do not require any form of continual subscription...
on Premier Sports
Premier Sports
Premier Sports is the brand name for a group of sports-oriented television channels, operated by the Luxembourg registered Premier Media S.à r.l., broadcasting in United Kingdom.-History:...
in 2011.
History
The Student Rugby LeagueStudent Rugby League
The Student Rugby League is the organisation which administrates university and college rugby league in the United Kingdom, on behalf of the Rugby Football League and BUCS....
was founded in 1967 when a rugby league team was created at Leeds University by Andrew Cudbertson, Jack Abernathy and Cec Thompson
Cec Thompson
Cec Thompson was a British professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s, '50s and '60s.He was born in County Durham, the son of a mother from Durham and a Trinidadian father. His father died when he was very young and his childhood was spent in a succession of orphanages.Thompson took up...
, other teams soon joined in areas of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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which lay outside of the games traditional heartlands. The first university game was between Leeds and Liverpool in 1968. A year later the Universities and Colleges Rugby League was formed after student pioneers fought hard to get the sport recognised in higher education.
The elite Super 8 competition was formed as the Super 6 in 2008.
Student Rugby League Pyramid
- Super 8
- National North & National South
- Lancashire, Midlands, North, North West, South, Wales & West
- Midlands A, North 2
Teams 2011
- Edge Hill University
- Gloucestershire University
- Leeds Metropolitan University
- Loughborough University
- Northumbria University
- St Mary's University
- University of Central Lancashire
- University of Hull
Past winners
- 2008-09 Leeds Metropolitan University (as Super 6)
- 2009-10 Loughborough University