The fourteen licensed teams are announced.

From next year until 2011, the fourteen teams that will compete in Super League are;

Bradford

Castleford

Catalan

Celtic

Harlequins

Huddersfield

Hull FC

Hull KR

Leeds

Salford

St Helens

Wakefield

Warrington

Wigan

Realistically, there are no surprises. Despite the ideal solution of dropping Wakefield and Castleford, speculation was right about the current twelve Super League clubs being granted a license. However, the big news is that Celtic and Salford will also join the current crop of teams as of next year and are guaranteed to be in the top flight for the two more years after that.

More reaction and opinion to the announcement will follow, only at A Tap on the Twenty.