York and Toulouse complete 14-team Super League as London Broncos miss out

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York Knights and Toulouse Olympique have won the three-way battle to snare the final two places in next season's expanded Super League, with the newly invigorated London Broncos missing the cut.

As Championship Grand Final winners, Toulouse occupied 13th place in the list of club gradings announced on Thursday, while York, as regular season winners, were rewarded for securing 14th. Nonetheless, with on-field performance only one criterion in the decision, made by a panel chaired by the Rugby Football League nonexecutive director Lord Caine, the Broncos will be disappointed to have lost out.