{"id":292502,"date":"2025-12-01T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292502\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T05:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T05:00:13","slug":"bradford-bulls-need-top-six-to-be-in-super-league-play-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292502\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford Bulls need top six to be in Super League play-offs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  But that task has just become even tougher again, with this week\u2019s announcement.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Sky Sports and the RFL have confirmed the play-off dates for 2026 now the Super League fixtures have been released and only the top six will be involved.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  That has been the case for several years now, but various reports suggested that the top eight would go into next year\u2019s play-offs, given Super League is increasing from 12 teams to 14.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Instead, the format of the play-offs will be exactly the same as in last season\u2019s top-flight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The elimination matches on the weekend of September 19-20 will see third place host sixth, while fifth must travel to fourth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The following weekend, the team who came second will entertain the highest-placed elimination play-off winner to progress.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The other semi-final will see the side who finished first and won the League Leaders\u2019 Shield welcome the lowest-placed elimination qualifier to their ground.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Grand Final will then take place at Old Trafford on Saturday, October 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But that task has just become even tougher again, with this week\u2019s announcement. Sky Sports and the RFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-292502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}