Super League has revealed that the 2021 Super League season will begin on March 11.
The start date is later than usual due to the delayed finish of this season caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, and will allow clubs a full pre-season to prepare adequately.
It has also been confirmed that the Super League Grand Final will return to Old Trafford in 2021 and will be played on October 9, while Magic Weekend is also back on the calendar and will be staged at Newcastle’s St James’ Park on May 29/30.
Clubs will play 13 home and 13 away games in what will be a 27-match regular season, with the six-team play-off format to be used.
Full fixtures will be released in January.
Super League executive chairman Robert Elstone said: “With our players performing at the highest level, late into November, it is important that we give our players time to recover and prepare properly for the 2021 campaign.
“Many of them will be looking to force themselves into the selection decisions for the Rugby League World Cup and pre-season will be a key part of their plans.
“What is also clear with the ongoing uncertainty around Covid-19 is that a later start date gives us a better chance of playing more games in front of fans in 2021.”
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J Wisehart
January 11, 2021 at 7:29 pm
Rugby League should man up and say stuff your stupid rules, we are men not sheeple, we’re not afraid of getting an ailment that doesn’t even warrant contagion regulations for the dead, and only kills people already dying of serious ailments like lung cancer, emphysema, flu, pneumonia, etc (all of which have been around for centuries). Do not surrender our sport and rights to fascist governments!
Millions of people die each year of worse illnesses than this new flu (covid19), yet sport, livelihoods, economies are not destroyed by governments with illogical and contradictory guidelines (not law, NB for budding solicitors) which have saved no-one and never will. Masks make people ill, pulmonary fibrosis, necrosis of the lungs, just a few of consequences of inhibiting breathing.