| The League also succeeded in reducing the death rate of workers constructing the Tanganyika railway from 55 to 4 percent. |
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| The League of Nations condemned Japan's actions and initiated sanctions on Japan. |
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| The Premier League is an English professional league for men's association football clubs. |
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| The Premier League is a corporation in which the 20 member clubs act as shareholders. |
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| The Premier League ranks third in the UEFA coefficients of leagues based on performances in European competitions over the past five seasons. |
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| The Premier League responded by announcing their intention to resist such a reduction. |
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| At that time, no association could have more than four entrants in the Champions League. |
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| A system of promotion and relegation exists between the Premier League and the Football League Championship. |
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| In 2011, a Welsh club participated in the Premier League for the first time after Swansea City gained promotion. |
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| Participation in the Premier League by some Scottish or Irish clubs has sometimes been discussed, but without result. |
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| As well as sponsorship for the league itself, the Premier League has a number of official partners and suppliers. |
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| The Premier League includes some of the richest football clubs in the world. |
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| Premier League clubs agreed in principle in December 2012, to radical new cost controls. |
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| The Premier League is particularly popular in Asia, where it is the most widely distributed sports programme. |
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| There has been an increasing gulf between the Premier League and the Football League. |
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| Nine stadiums that have seen Premier League football have now been demolished. |
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| Stadium attendances are a significant source of regular income for Premier League clubs. |
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| Ryan Giggs holds the record number of Premier League appearances and he also has 13 Premier League champion's medals, more than any other player. |
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| As of 2015, average salaries in the Premier League are higher than for any other football league in the world. |
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| The record transfer fee for a Premier League player has risen steadily over the lifetime of the competition. |
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| The Golden Boot is awarded to the top Premier League scorer at the end of each season. |
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| Two trophies are held in the event that two different clubs could win the League on the final day of the season. |
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| The current Premier League trophy was created by Royal Jewellers Asprey of London. |
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| Since 2009, Champions League winners have not kept the real trophy, which remains in UEFA's keeping at all times. |
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| The badge itself adorns the left sleeve of the team's shirt during Champions League games. |
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| The UEFA Champions League final is the most watched annual sporting event worldwide. |
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| The winner of the UEFA Champions League qualifies for the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup. |
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| Jonas Kaufmann provided the tenor for 2012 UEFA Champions League Final, whilst David Garrett performed with his violin. |
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| The number of teams that each association enters into the UEFA Champions League is based upon the UEFA coefficients of the member associations. |
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| The top three leagues in Europe are currently allowed to enter four teams into the Champions League. |
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| In August 2016, UEFA announced changes in the access list of the tournament, driven to avoid the creation of European Super League. |
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| The Europa League champion also will automatically qualify for the group stage. |
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| Today, UEFA Champions League referees are required to pass a fitness test to even be considered at the international level. |
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| Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer is also a secondary sponsor as the official Champions League video game. |
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| The club was founded in 1892 and joined the Football League the following year. |
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| In 1976, Paisley's second season as manager, the club won another League and UEFA Cup double. |
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| The following season, the club retained the League title and won the European Cup for the first time, but it lost in the 1977 FA Cup Final. |
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| Liverpool won the League, League Cup and European Cup in Fagan's first season, becoming the first English side to win three trophies in a season. |
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| Souness was replaced by Roy Evans, and Liverpool went on to win the 1995 Football League Cup Final. |
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| They won a further League Cup in 2003, but failed to mount a title challenge in the two seasons that followed. |
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| Liverpool, to play matches for fans who had been priced out of watching Premier League football. |
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| Accountants Deloitte ranked Liverpool eighth in the Deloitte Football Money League, which ranks the world's football clubs in terms of revenue. |
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| Liverpool's first trophy was the Lancashire League, which it won in the club's first season. |
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| Liverpool has won the English League Championship eighteen times, the FA Cup seven times and the League Cup a record eight times. |
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| Despite approval from the FA, the Football League determined that the club should not enter the competition, since it had not qualified. |
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| Part of the new seating was used for the first time on 26 March 2006, when an attendance of 69,070 became a new Premier League record. |
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| A 2014 study showed that Manchester United had the loudest fans in the Premier League. |
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| Since then, they have mostly competed in the top two League tiers, bar five seasons in the third tier. |
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| They joined the Football Alliance in 1889, and won the competition in 1892, before entering the Football League. |
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| Nottingham Forest's next major trophies came in 1989 when they won the Football League Cup and the Full Members Cup. |
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| The following season Aston Villa became the first team to win the Football League Cup. |
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| Chelsea's form in the new Premier League was unconvincing, although they did reach the 1994 FA Cup Final with Glenn Hoddle. |
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| Chelsea are the only London club to win the UEFA Champions League, after beating Bayern Munich in the 2012 final. |
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| In 2010 Chelsea Ladies were one of the eight founder members of the FA Women's Super League. |
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| In the 1930s, Arsenal won five League Championships and two FA Cups, and another FA Cup and two Championships after the war. |
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| Between 1989 and 2005, they won five League titles and five FA Cups, including two more Doubles. |
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| They registered their new name, Woolwich Arsenal, with The Football League when the club ascended later that year. |
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| Arsenal won their first League Cup in 1987, Graham's first season in charge. |
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| This qualified them for the 2014 FA Community Shield where they would play Premier League champions Manchester City. |
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| The Deloitte Football Money League is a publication that homogenizes and compares clubs' annual revenue. |
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| On 22 January 1927, their match at Highbury against Sheffield United was the first English League match to be broadcast live on radio. |
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| A special gold version of the Premier League trophy was commissioned and presented to the club the following season. |
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| Leeds United have won three First Division league titles, one FA Cup and one League Cup. |
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| The team also finished second in the Football League First Division five times, third once and fourth twice. |
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| Investec Bank appeared in the Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup and Europa League. |
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| A year later, the club turned professional and joined the Southern League, which they won in its first season and finished third in the next. |
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| Consolation was a UEFA Cup place and FA Premier League Manager of the Year Award for Burley. |
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| Winners of some selected domestic League Cup competitions are also admitted. |
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| The UEFA Cup, also known as the Coupe UEFA, is the trophy awarded annually by UEFA to the football club that wins the UEFA Europa League. |
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| The final is played in May, on the Wednesday ten days before the Champions League final. |
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| Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer is also a secondary sponsor as the official Europa League video game. |
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| Individual clubs may wear jerseys with advertising, even if such sponsors conflict with those of the Europa League. |
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| After the use of Merit tables for the prior three seasons, in 1987 the RFU implemented a National League system. |
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| The town was the birthplace of rugby league, and is home to the Huddersfield Giants who play in the Super League, the top division in Europe. |
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| The town is home to Huddersfield Underbank Rangers rugby league club, who play in the Rugby League Conference. |
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| Following the split of 1895, Huddersfield became a focus for rugby league and is represented by Huddersfield Giants in the Super League. |
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| They showed every game England competed in at the 2013 Rugby League World Cup as well as all their Four Nations games. |
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| England replaced Great Britain in competing in the Rugby League Four Nations which replaced the previous Tri Nations tournament. |
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| The ninth Rugby League World Cup was played out between 1985 and 1988, with teams playing each other on a home and away basis. |
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| The continuing Super League war meant that the 1998 Kangaroo Tour was cancelled. |
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| The outbreak of the Super League war meant that the next Kangaroo tour, set for 1998, never eventuated. |
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| The 2013 Rugby League World Cup was held in England and Wales and won by Australia. |
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| In 1952, Rugby Football League secretary Bill Fallowfield persuaded the Rugby League Council to support the concept. |
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| The 1954 Rugby League World Cup was won by Great Britain who defeated France in Paris on 13 November to claim the title. |
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| Due to the Super League war, players aligned with the rebel competition were not selected by the ARL to represent the Kangaroos. |
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| The 2025 Rugby League World Cup will be held in the United States and Canada. |
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| The Rugby League World Cup has followed a varied range of formats throughout its history as the number of teams participating has increased. |
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| Canadian and Welsh clubs that also compete in the Rugby Football League can also qualify. |
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| Super League began in 1996, replacing the RFL Championship and switching from a winter to a summer season. |
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| Leeds Rhinos are the most successful club in the Super League era, having won 7 titles. |
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| The Super League champions play the National Rugby League champions from Australasia in the World Club Challenge at the start of the season. |
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| The teams announced were the 12 existing Super League teams along with National League 1 teams, Celtic Crusaders and Salford. |
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| Crusaders CEO Rod Findlay stated that the club's finances were not in a good enough condition to justify their place in Super League. |
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| The third game is the World Club Challenge between the NRL and Super League Champions. |
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| The team finishing bottom after 23 rounds collects the Super League Wooden Spoon. |
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| The Challenge Cup domestic cup in Super League and all levels of rugby league in Britain. |
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| The Qualifiers Super 8s sees the bottom 4 teams from the original Super League table mixed with the top 4 teams from the Championship. |
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| After 7 games each the teams finishing 1st, 2nd and 3rd will gain qualification to the next years Super League season. |
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| In 2005 the new franchise was awarded to Catalans Dragons to play in the 2006 Super League. |
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| A reserve league was set up in 2016 with a mixture of Super League, Championship and League 1 teams. |
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| To date, this has been achieved by a total ten different clubs but by only four different clubs during the Super League era. |
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| Winning all Four Cups refers to winning the Super League, League Leaders Shield, Challenge Cup and World Club Challenge in one season. |
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| The winner of the Grand Final is given the Super League Trophy as Super League Champions. |
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| The record for most Super League titles won is held by Leeds with seven titles. |
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| The Man of Steel Award is an annual award for the best player of the season in Super League. |
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| The Super League has been won by 12 different coaches, 8 from Australia, 3 from England and 1 from New Zealand. |
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| Super League has been sponsored since its formation, apart from the 2013 season. |
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| As well as title sponsorship, Super League has a number of official partners and suppliers. |
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| Former Super League and International Referee Steve Ganson is the current Acting Head of the Match Officials Department and Technical Director. |
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| Also the only time that lower division clubs got the chance to play Super League opposition was in the early rounds of the challenge cup. |
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| Another team to fail from outside the heartlands was Gateshead Thunder who competed in the first season of Super League. |
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| Live Super League broadcasts regularly rank amongst the top 10 most watched programmes in a week on Sky Sports with in excess of 250,000 viewers. |
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| Sky Sports also run several supplementary magazine shows, including Super League Full Time and Boots N' All. |
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| Internationally Super League is shown live by eight different broadcasters in eight different countries and regions. |
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| In 1996 it was replaced by the Super League although winning the Super League is still regarded as winning the Championship. |
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| The club competes in the Super League and are the current Super League Champions. |
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| Between 1906 and 1923 Wigan won the Lancashire League another seven times and the Lancashire Cup another four times. |
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| Wigan won their opening 4 games to take them to the top of the Super League table. |
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| Wigan, like most teams, originally used the towns coat of arms as their club badge until the Super League era when many clubs rebranded. |
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| Central Park would be the home of Wigan Rugby League until 1999 when they moved to the newly built JJB Stadium. |
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| The DW Stadium is shared by both Wigan Warriors Rugby League club and Wigan Athletic Football Club. |
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| In 2010 Wigan were officially the best supported club in Super League with a higher average attendance than nearest rivals Leeds Rhinos. |
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| However the two Divisions became one League to save the club from a 2nd relegation. |
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| Perhaps the golden era of the club came in the 1960s, as well as more lately in the Super League era. |
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| In July, they beat Super League rivals, Bradford, to reach the first Challenge Cup final at the new Wembley Stadium. |
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| More recently, the game was even played on Maundy Thursday in Super League. |
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| In Super League Grand Finals, St Helens and Bradford met twice, in 1999 and 2002, St Helens again winning all encounters. |
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| However, they remarkably have never met in Challenge Cup or Super League Finals. |
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| St Helens are one of the best supported teams in Super League, averaging 11,543 according to 2014 figures. |
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| During the Super League era, the participating teams have adopted mascots and nicknames usually in alliteration with the name of their home town. |
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| Leeds have won thirteen Challenge Cups, ten League championships and three World Club Challenge titles. |
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| Leeds then retained the Super League championship by winning the Grand final. |
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| O'Sullivan participated at the Premier League Snooker, and qualified for the finals unbeaten. |
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| The Rhinos did however, successfully defend their Super League title by winning the 2012 Super League Grand Final. |
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| In 1996, the formation of Super League saw Leeds change their name to Leeds Rhinos. |
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| Leeds' main local rivals was Bradford Bulls who they played in two Grand Finals and beat in 2004 to win their first Super League title. |
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| The Golden Boot Award is a rugby league award handed out annually for achievements in rugby league by Rugby League World magazine. |
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| Two members of the team, centre Harold Wagstaff and wing Albert Rosenfeld were honoured by inclusion in the original Rugby League Hall of Fame. |
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| This capitalised on a season which also brought home the Yorkshire League title. |
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| In 1996, the first tier of British rugby league clubs played the inaugural Super League season and changed from a winter to a summer season. |
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| In 1998, due to the collapse of Paris St Germain the club was promoted to Super League despite only finishing second in the second division. |
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| Huddersfield finished bottom of Super League and Reilly was sacked at the end of the season. |
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| Widnes won the NFP competition that year and the club was seen to be fit to play in Super League. |
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| Huddersfield were finally relegated after their best season in Super League. |
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| In 2003 under Smith, Huddersfield established themselves as a Super League club, finishing 10th, above Wakefield Trinity and Halifax. |
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| After guiding Huddersfield back to Super League, Smith and assistant coach Brian McDermott moved onto Headingley to take control of Leeds. |
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| In 2013, Huddersfield won the League Leader's Shield, the first time they have finished top of the league in 81 years. |
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| The World Club Challenge is an annually held competition between the winners of the Australian NRL and the European Super League. |
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| Prior to the final 2014 contract event ESPN traded the Friday cable rights back to NBC for increased usage of English Premier League highlights. |
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| In fact, it was the only manufacturer involved in the 2006 Indy Racing League season. |
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| Honda also sponsors The Honda Classic golf tournament and is a sponsor of Major League Soccer. |
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| In 2005, Sky Sports launched the Premier League Darts television programme. |
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| Started in 2008, the Championship League Darts offered the players outside the top 8 in the PDC Order of Merit to compete for the championship. |
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| By 1986 he was selected for the county team and playing at Super League level. |
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| He was defeated at the International Darts League and the World Darts Trophy in the Netherlands. |
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| Before the start of the Premier League tournament, Taylor unveiled some new black 26g darts. |
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| Taylor did not finish top of the Premier League for the first time this year. |
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| Taylor then won the Championship League title for the fourth time in six years. |
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| He returned to action at the Premier League six weeks later with a new set of darts having switched manufacturers. |
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| However, his poor start to the Premier League continued as he lost three of his next four games to find himself in real danger of relegation. |
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| It was called the League to Enforce Peace and was substantially based on the proposals of the Bryce Group. |
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| The diplomatic philosophy behind the League represented a fundamental shift from the preceding hundred years. |
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| Sanctions could hurt League members, so they were reluctant to comply with them. |
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| The onset of the Second World War showed that the League had failed its primary purpose, which was to prevent any future world war. |
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| Its structure consisted of a council headed by a president, which would later be reflected in the structure of the League. |
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| The official languages of the League of Nations were French, English, and Spanish. |
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| The main constitutional organs of the League were the Assembly, the Council, and the Permanent Secretariat. |
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| Each body could deal with any matter within the sphere of competence of the League or affecting peace in the world. |
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| The Assembly consisted of representatives of all members of the League, with each state allowed up to three representatives and one vote. |
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| In practice, the Assembly was the general directing force of League activities. |
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| The League Council acted as a type of executive body directing the Assembly's business. |
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| Public good nothing, replied the copresidents of the League of Women Voters of Chicago. |
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| The Gunners boss has been heavily criticised for his side's poor start to the Premier League season but this result helps lift the pressure. |
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| Andrew Johnson scored a hat-trick as Fulham demolished London rivals Queens Park Rangers to win their Premier League fixture of the season. |
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| Their substitutes featured two players from League One clubs and Miller, who earns his crust these days with Vancouver Whitecaps. |
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| Riot in particular has taken a direct role in the growth of League of Legends as an eSport. |
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| Manchester City crashed out of Europe on Tuesday as Borussia Dortmund ended their hopes of qualifying for the Europa League. |
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| The Yankees entered the farm league business in 1929 when they purchased Chambersburg in the Class D Blue Ridge League. |
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| Liverpool resisted a second-half fightback from Wolves to secure a hard-fought victory and end a run of back-to-back Premier League defeats. |
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| The member of the college's Communist League was a firebrand who would launch a sit-in or protest march at a moment's notice. |
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| Stevenage and Sheffield United played out a goalless draw in their League One play-off semi-final first leg. |
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| The FA Cup and The Football League were the first cup and league competitions respectively. |
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| Rugby League is most popular among towns in the northern English counties of Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cumbria. |
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| All eleven English clubs in Super League are based in the north of England. |
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| After the war, the United Kingdom received the League of Nations mandate over a number of former German and Ottoman colonies. |
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| The English top division, the Premier League, is the most watched football league in the world. |
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| Super League is the highest level of professional rugby league in the UK and Europe. |
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| The Isles of Scilly feature what is reportedly the smallest football league in the world, the Isles of Scilly Football League. |
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| The island is home to the Wightlink Warriors speedway team, who compete in the sport's third division, the National League. |
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| There is an Isle of Wight Saturday Football League with three divisions, and a rugby union club. |
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| Ventnor Cricket Club competes in the Southern Premier League, and has won the Second Division several times. |
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| Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham are the only London clubs to have won the League. |
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| Shearer remains the highest scoring player in Premier League history with 260 goals in 441 appearances. |
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| The League of Nations was founded with the idea that nations could resolve their differences peacefully, but these hopes were unfounded. |
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| In the United States and in Canada, the American Classical League supports every effort to further the study of classics. |
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| No Hot Stove League in this town. No, no, no. Here in Boston, USA, and throughout New England, we play in the Blast Furnace League. |
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| The Achaean League chose this moment to fight Rome but was swiftly defeated. |
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| In 2012, a new football league was formed called the Mercian Regional Football League. |
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| The Hanseatic League forced the royalty to cede to them greater and greater concessions over foreign trade and the economy. |
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| The League had this hold over the royalty because of the loans the Hansa had made to the royalty and the large debt the kings were carrying. |
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| He led his ships in attacks on neutral Hanseatic League and Spanish ships in the Channel on flimsy grounds of sovereignty. |
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| France, Burgundy, the Holy Roman Empire, Spain and the Hanseatic League all rejected the treaty, which was never in force. |
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| In 1510, France, with a fragile alliance with the Holy Roman Empire in the League of Cambrai, was winning a war against Venice. |
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| Henry then pulled off a diplomatic coup by convincing the Emperor to join the Holy League. |
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| The Schmalkaldic League had allied itself to the French, and efforts in Germany to undermine the League had been rebuffed. |
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| England joined the League of Augsburg, which then became known as the Grand Alliance. |
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| The colonies of Germany and the Ottoman Empire were distributed to the Allied powers as League of Nations mandates. |
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| Recent sporting events hosted by Manchester include the 2013 Ashes series, 2013 Rugby League World Cup and the 2015 Rugby World Cup. |
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| Birmingham's sporting heritage can be felt worldwide, with the concept of the Football League and lawn tennis both originating from the city. |
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| The FA, founded in 1863, and the Football League, founded in 1888, were both the first of their kind in the world. |
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| The Reform League campaigned for manhood suffrage in the 1860s, and included former Chartists amongst its ranks. |
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| Following the Versailles conference, Britain, France, Italy and Japan became the permanent members of the League of Nations council. |
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| To prevent a future world war, the League of Nations was created during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. |
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| Too weak to resist Japan, China appealed to the League of Nations for help. |
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| Japan withdrew from the League of Nations after being condemned for its incursion into Manchuria. |
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| In Asia, when Japan seized Manchuria in 1931, the League of Nations condemned it for aggression against China. |
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| On 30 November, the Soviet Union attacked Finland, for which it was expelled from the League of Nations. |
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| Under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, a number of mandates were created. |
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| Tottenham were knocked out of the Europa League, despite a comfortable victory over Shamrock Rovers in Dublin. |
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| Ulster is one of the four professional provincial teams in Ireland and competes in the Celtic League and European Cup. |
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| Louisiana has a AAA Minor League baseball team, the New Orleans Baby Cakes. |
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| Tanya Arnold, presents the BBC rugby league programme Super League Show, broadcast nationwide from Leeds. |
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| It was formed in 2007 from the merger of the Devon County League and the South Western League. |
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| Folkestone Cricket Club currently competes in the first division of the Kent Cricket League. |
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| The City of Liverpool Swimming Club has been National Speedo League Champions 8 out of the last 11 years. |
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| The city is the hub of the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition, an ECB Premier League. |
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| Since 2015, the Super League Magic Weekend has been played annually in the city at St James' Park. |
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| Sheffield also put in a bid to be a host city for the 2013 Rugby League World Cup, but their bid was unsuccessful. |
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| The Nottingham Caesars who were formed in 1984 play in the British American Football League at the Harvey Hadden Stadium. |
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| The city is home to the Chichester Sharks Flag American Football Club who are members of the BAFA National League. |
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| Chichester Falcons Softball Club, based at Oaklands Park, play in the Solent Softball League. |
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| Warton is home to AFC Fylde old ground who are a football club currently playing in the National League North. |
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| Preston were champions of the Football League in its first two seasons, but have not won it since. |
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| Promotion to the Football League First Division was achieved in 1969, and County were champions of the English league three years later. |
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| Rugby league team Derby City RLFC were formed in 1990 and compete in the Midlands Premier Division of the National Rugby League Conference. |
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| The city is represented in the English Basketball League Division One by Derby Trailblazers, who play at the Moorways Sports Centre. |
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| They were formed in 2002 following the demise of British Basketball League side Derby Storm. |
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| In 2013 Portsmouth were relegated again, this time placing them in the League Two, the fourth tier of English Football. |
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| The top football league in Malta is called the Maltese Premier League, and consists of 12 teams. |
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| Between the two coups, the four interned Awami League leaders were assassinated by army men in Dhaka Central Jail. |
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| At the next election in 1996, the Awami League, headed by Sheikh Hasina, one of Mujib's surviving daughters, returned to power after 21 years. |
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| The Awami League lost again to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in the 2001 election. |
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| The Awami League waged a series of strikes against the government after an assassination attempt on former premier Sheikh Hasina. |
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| Critics have accused the government of trying to turn Bangladesh into a dominant party state under the ruling Awami League. |
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| After assuming power in 2009, the Awami League government greatly reduced the commission's independent powers for investigation and prosecution. |
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| In the early five years of independence, Bangladesh adopted socialist policies which proved to be a critical blunder by the Awami League. |
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| In addition to the political parties, there are various interest groups such as the Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament and the Celtic League. |
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| In May 2012 the Mercian Regional Football League was created, replacing the Shropshire County Premier Football League and Telford Combination. |
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| The EFL Trophy is for clubs belonging to EFL League One and EFL League Two. |
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| The Peasants' Revolt in Germany broke out from 1524 to 1526, and in 1531 the Lutheran Schmalkaldic League was formed. |
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| Since 2000, the designated ECB Premier League for Lancashire has been the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition. |
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| Along with Yorkshire and Cumberland, Lancashire is recognised as the heartland of Rugby League. |
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| Then, in 1901, this same officer was given the task of establishing the Naval and Military League, the forerunner of the Red Shield Services. |
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| Historically, many of the prestigious universities in the United States have been private, most notably the Ivy League. |
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| In the American League, front-running Cleveland was an odds-on favorite with the men who make book on baseball. |
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| Coventry Sphinx, Alvis Sporting Club, Coventry Copsewood and Coventry United all play in the Midland Football League. |
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| Coventry Rugby Football Club play in National League 1, the third tier of the English rugby union system. |
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| As of the 2015 season, the Bears will compete in the Kingstone Press League 1, as a fully professional team in the third tier of Rugby League. |
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| In 2002, the Bears won the Rugby League Conference, and took the step up to the national leagues. |
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| They started out in the National League Division Three before moving up to the Second Division and, later to the top flight. |
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| The Coventry Storm, an offshoot of the senior team, currently compete in the National League. |
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| To date, they remain the only team since the formation of the Elite League to achieve this feat. |
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| The NIHL Coventry Blaze, an offshoot of the senior team and official affiliate of the Blaze, currently compete in the National Ice Hockey League. |
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| The Windsor 1st team currently play in Division 2A of the Thames Valley League. |
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| Barrow, Whitehaven and Workington play in the Rugby League National Leagues and Carlisle in the Rugby League Conference. |
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| Cumbrian club cricket teams play in the North Lancashire and Cumbria League. |
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| Holbein's commissions in the early stages of his second English period included portraits of Lutheran merchants of the Hanseatic League. |
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| By 1884 it had six different branches with 195 members, and the League was renamed the Women's Cooperative Guild. |
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| He presented Celtic with the trophy after they won the 2015 Scottish League Cup Final. |
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| After the success of Indian Premier League, many other domestic leagues were formed globally. |
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| Recently the Twenty20 Champions League was formed as a tournament for domestic clubs of various countries. |
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| There, on 8 August 1907 the New South Wales Rugby Football League was founded at Bateman's Hotel in George Street. |
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| Also in 1954 the Rugby League World Cup, the first for either code of rugby, was formed at the instigation of the French. |
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| In Europe it resulted in a move from a winter sport to a summer one as the new Super League competition tried to expand its market. |
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| The Rugby League World Cup is the highest form of representative rugby league and currently features 14 teams. |
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| The current World Champions are Australia, who won the 2013 Rugby League World Cup. |
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| The PDC's major tournaments are the World Championship, Premier League, UK Open, World Matchplay, World Grand Prix and the Grand Slam of Darts. |
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| The Indoor League was shown across Britain on the ITV network from 1973 onwards. |
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| They also shown the International Darts League and World Darts Trophy, however they are now defunct. |
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| It runs for 17 weeks and replaces the National Netball League, which was played over only two weeks. |
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| The 2013 UEFA Women's Champions League Final was played at Stamford Bridge. |
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| In its submission to the Burns Inquiry, the League Against Cruel Sports presented evidence of over 1,000 cases of trespass by hunts. |
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| There is also a professional Ice Hockey league operating in Great Britain called the Elite Ice Hockey League. |
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| The Welsh football league system includes the Welsh Premier League and regional leagues. |
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| In 2013, the United Kingdom hosted the Rugby League World Cup for the 5th time, with England and Wales officially serving as joint hosts. |
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| In 2007, the League Cup final moved back to Wembley from Cardiff following the FA Cup final and FA Community Shield. |
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| Wembley Stadium hosted the UEFA Champions League Final on 28 May 2011 between FC Barcelona and Manchester United. |
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| Wembley also hosted the 2013 UEFA Champions League Final, making it the second time in 3 years. |
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| On the first occasion they set a new Champions League home attendance record with the crowd in attendance at just over 85,000 people. |
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| The first Rugby League team to win a game at the new Wembley Stadium, were Normanton Freeston. |
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| After the narrow failure to qualify for Euro 2008, McLeish left to join Premier League club Birmingham City. |
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| The SFA includes a match against a Hong Kong League XI played on 23 May 2002 in its statistical totals. |
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| Since the 1994 FIFA World Cup, like the UEFA Champions League, FIFA has adopted an anthem composed by the German composer Franz Lambert. |
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| This emulates practices long used by some other international football events such as the UEFA Champions League. |
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| They play in the Northern Premier League Division One South, at level 8 of the English football league system. |
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| They were also founder members of the original Yorkshire League in 1898, but again they spent just a single season in the competition. |
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| The Premier League reduced to 20 clubs in 1995 and is one of the richest football leagues in the world. |
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| The last entrants are the Premier League and Championship clubs, into the draw for the Third Round Proper. |
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| Winners also qualify for the Europa League and a place in the FA Community Shield match. |
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| By comparison, the other major English domestic cup, the League Cup, involves only the 92 members of the Premier League and Football League. |
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