1999 Super League season

JJB Sports Super League IV was the official name for the year 1999's Super League championship season, the 105th season of top-level professional rugby league football in Britain, and the fourth championship run by the Super League. The start of Super League IV saw the emergence of a North East based Rugby League Club, Gateshead Thunder as well as newly promoted Wakefield Trinity Wildcats to expand the league to fourteen teams.

Super League IV
LeagueSuper League
Duration30 Rounds
Teams14
Highest attendance24,020
Bradford Bulls vs Leeds Rhinos (3 Sept)
Lowest attendance1,580
Gateshead Thunder vs Hull Sharks (19 May)
Broadcast partnersSky Sports
1999 Season
ChampionsSt. Helens
2nd Super League title
9th British title
League LeadersBradford Bulls
Man of Steel Adrian Vowles
Top point-scorer(s) Iestyn Harris (325)
Top try-scorer(s) Toa Kohe-Love (25)
Left League
Merged with Hull FC
Merger with Huddersfield Giants
Gateshead Thunder;
Sheffield Eagles
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