Leeds Rhinos

England

Founded

1865

Arena

Headingley Stadium · 21,200 cap

Leeds Rhinos (known as Leeds until the end of the 1996 season, and also historically known as Leeds Loiners making reference to the name for a native of Leeds, a Loiner) are a professional rugby league club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, where they are the current Super League Leaders and Champions. In 1895, Leeds were one of twenty-two rugby clubs which broke away from the Rugby Football Union and formed what is now the Rugby Football League. Leeds joined the Super League in 1996 and became Leeds Rhinos in 1997. The club is owned by the same company that owns Leeds Carnegie rugby union team. Leeds have won thirteen Challenge Cups, ten League championships and three World Club Challenge titles.

Catalans Dragons

France

Founded

2000

Arena

Stade Gilbert Brutus · 13,000 cap

The Catalans Dragons (French and Catalan: Dragons Catalans) are a French professional rugby league club based in Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales. They currently play in the Super League, the only team in the competition from outside England. The Dragons play their home games at Stade Gilbert Brutus. The club was formed in 2000 by a merger of XIII Catalan and AS Saint Estève into Union Treiziste Catalane (UTC). They won the 2005 French Rugby League Championship and the Lord Derby Cup in 2004 and 2005. In 2006, they were granted a Super League license, taking the name Catalans Dragons. UTC continues to compete in the French Championship's Elite One Championship as a feeder club for the Dragons.