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Beijing wins first Super League titleBeijing wins first Super League title Beijing Guoan brought the capital its first Chinese Super League title on Saturday by closing its season with an emphatic 4-0 victory over Hangzhou Lucheng. Beijing, home to Australians Joel and Ryan... In this article: Beijing, Super League, Chinese Super League, and Beijing Guoan |
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thestar.com | September 11, 2009
China may suspend soccer league due to swine flu
China may suspend soccer league due to swine flu BEIJING - China's soccer officials may suspend the Super League after an outbreak of swine flu at one team. Players and staff of Chongqing Lifan, including Dutch coach Arie Haan, were...
In this article: China, H1N1, Arie Haan, Chongqing Lifan, Chongqing, and Beijing
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FIFA.com News | October 28, 2009
Beijing and Henan battle for title
...28 October 2009 Beijing Guoan and Henan Jianye head into their season-ending matches in China's Super League on Saturday tied at the top of the table, with each hoping to win their first-ever championship. Beijing, who play...
In this article: Beijing, Beijing Guoan, Henan Jianye, and China
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San Diego Union-Tribune | September 11, 2009
Chinese soccer team quarantined over swine flu
Chinese soccer team quarantined over swine flu BEIJING China's soccer officials may suspend the Super League after an outbreak of swine flu at one team. Players and staff of Chongqing Lifan, including Dutch coach Arie Haan, were confined...
In this article: China, H1N1, Arie Haan, Chongqing Lifan, Chongqing, and Beijing
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boston.com - Latest world news | February 17, 2009
China's top soccer league returns to TV
...games -- or how many -- would be shown on TV. CCTV pulled the Super League from national TV in November, following a scuffle between players from clubs from Beijing and neighboring Tianjin. After the game, fans attacked the bus of the...
In this article: China, World Cup, Tianjin, All rights reserved, 2010 World Cup, and Chinese Super League
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Beijing Guoan sack Lee
...League standings with 36 points apiece, but Changchun have the advantage with more victories. Henan Jianye lead the league with 38 points. Lee, who won China's Football Association Cup in 2002 with Qingdao, led Guoan to a second place...
In this article: Beijing Guoan, Changchun, Chinese Super League, Changchun Yatai, Shandong Luneng, and Henan Jianye
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BBC News | March 31, 2008
Chambers still keen on Olympics
...starting a month's trial in rugby league. Chambers, who joined Super League strugglers Castleford on Monday, is banned from competing in Beijing by a British Olympic Association by-law. He said: "I would like to get to Beijing - I'm...
In this article: Dwain Chambers, Castleford, Beijing, British Olympic Association, Steroid, and Terry Matterson
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International Herald Tribune | February 17, 2009
Beckham calls L.A. return 'difficult'
...ban of CCTV has ended," the Chinese Football Association said. The government-run Super League has been beset by chronic mismanagement, match-fixing scandals and violence. CCTV dropped coverage in November after a scuffle between players...
In this article: David Beckham, Milan, Tianjin, Beijing, Chinese Super League, Major League Soccer, Filippo Inzaghi, Dejan Stankovic, and Los Angeles Galaxy
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Super League is the top-level professional rugby league football club competition of Europe. As a result of sponsorship from engage Mutual Assurance the competition is currently officially known as the engage Super League. The League features fourteen teams: twelve from England, one from Wales and one from France, which compete from February to October.
Super League began in March 1996 and saw the English season switch from winter to summer for the first time in over 100 years. Most of the teams are based in Great Britain, though initially the league was intended to be European, and indeed French club Paris Saint Germain contested the first ever Super League match. Following their departure in 1997, the league was solely English until Catalans Dragons were admitted for the 2006 season. In 2009, the Celtic Crusaders, from Wales, entered the competition.
During the league's regular season, each team plays 27 games over 27 rounds from February to September. At the end of the regular season, the top eight teams in Super League play in the playoffs, which culminates with the Grand Final.
In 2009 for the first time in its history Super League games will be played in five different countries in a single season; England, Wales, Scotland, France and Spain.
St Helens have dominated the European Super League in this century. Each year the competition winners play a game against the premiers of the Australasian National Rugby League competition in the World Club Challenge.
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