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2025 Challenge Cup
The 2025 Challenge Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2025 Betfred Challenge Cup, was the 124th edition of the Challenge Cup, the main rugby league knockout cup tournament in British rugby league, run by the Rugby Football League (RFL). Background Following discussions in 2024, it was announced that the format was being revised and there would now only be seven rounds of competition, down from the nine rounds used in recent seasons. The changes saw the Championship and League One clubs entering in round 2 (round 3 in 2024), and the Super League clubs entering in round 3 (round 6 in 2024), with all 12 super league teams playing away in round 3. The change followed criticism that the previous format favoured Super League clubs, and reducing the opportunities for smaller clubs to stage a tie against a big club. The competition started in January 2025, and concluded with the final on 7 June at Wembley Stadium. Toulouse Olympique declined to take part, as in previous year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warrington Wolves
Warrington Wolves are a professional rugby league club based in Warrington, England. They play home games at the Halliwell Jones Stadium and compete in Super League, the top tier of British rugby league system, British rugby league. Warrington are the only British-based club to have played every season in the top flight. They have won the List of British rugby league champions, League Championship three times and the Challenge Cup nine times. The club's traditional home colours are white, primrose and blue. Warrington have local rivalries with Widnes Vikings, Widnes, St Helens R.F.C., St Helens and Wigan Warriors, Wigan. History Early years: 1876–1895 Although the official foundation date for the club is given as 1876, rugby football was certainly played in the town before that date and there was an earlier club bearing the name of Warrington Football Club. Under the heading 'Outdoor Sports – Football' the Widnes Guardian of 25 January 1873 reports on a recent game betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Britain Police Rugby League
Great Britain Police Rugby League, (sometimes referred in Rugby League media to as British Police or GB Police,) is a British rugby league team representing the police forces in the United Kingdom. The team have regularly played in the Challenge Cup since 2010. They usually play their home games groundsharing with Rochdale Mayfield at Mayfield Sports Centre in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Playing membership is only open to serving members of the police. History A rugby league team representing the British Police had been around since the 1990s. They would mostly play matches against overseas police representative teams. The individual county forces play inter-police rugby league matches which determine selection for the Great Britain Police team. The majority of the Great Britain Police team come from serving officers from rugby league's heartland forces of Yorkshire as well as Lancashire Constabulary but team members also come from non-heartland police forces such as London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammersmith Hills Hoists
The Hammersmith Hills Hoists are an amateur rugby league club based in Hammersmith, London. Founded at the end of 2008 by local Australian expats to provide players of all nationalities, backgrounds and abilities the chance to play competitive rugby league in and around London, while also expanding their social networks in the process. The club usually play in the Southern Conference League – part of the fourth tier of Rugby League nationally. The last parts of the name are an eponym that seems irrelevant at first glance to rugby – Hills Hoists are an Australian term for sturdy, rotary washing lines, particularly those with an advanced retraction mechanism – such is the nation's pride in these they are enrolled as of lasting heritage value in that country's national library and featured as roving robots in the 2000 Summer Olympics. One features in the club's badge. 2009 In 2009, the Hoists' inaugural season, the club blazed a trail through the London Leag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thatto Heath Crusaders
Thatto Heath Crusaders is an amateur rugby league club situated in Thatto Heath, St Helens, Merseyside. The club currently competes in the National Conference League Premier Division History ''Thatto Heath'' RLFC began life in 1981, originally formed by ex-St Helens R.F.C. player Frankie Barrow. The team began competing in the North West Counties 4th Division, and the ‘A’ Team entered Division 5. The team progressed through the divisions rapidly and finished the 1986−87 season by lifting the North West Counties Premier Division Championship Trophy, the St Helens Cup and they took out the BARLA National Cup Final with a 15–8 victory over the National Conference League Champions Heworth. Captain John McCabe entered the record books as the only player to appear on the winning side in five National Cup Finals. Over the next 20 years, Thatto Heath enjoyed enormous success, including the National Cup Trophy, a record five County Cups, two Champions Challenge successes, a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ince Rose Bridge
Ince Rose Bridge are an amateur rugby league football club based in Ince-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester. The club's first team plays in the National Conference League The National Conference League (NCL) comprises the five levels of the British rugby league system at the top end of the amateur pyramid below the professional RFL League 1, League One. It comes under the jurisdiction of the Rugby Football League .... External links Official websiteRose Bridge on the NCL website BARLA teams Rugby league teams in Greater Manchester Sport in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan Rugby league teams in England {{England-sport-team-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horsfall Stadium
Horsfall Community Stadium is a sports stadium just off Halifax Road in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, south-west of the city centre. It is the home of Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C. Albion Sports A.F.C. and West Bowling ARLFC Originally built as a running track in 1931, it was upgraded for football in 1996 when Bradford (Park Avenue) moved to the stadium and the track was upgraded to a synthetic surface at the same time. History Horsfall was officially opened on 5 September 1931 by Alderman S Horsfall JP who was chairman of the parks and cemeteries committee. It was originally opened as a running track in 1931 hosting athletics and a base for Airedale Harriers AC (later to become Bradford Airedale AC). The stadium did not change much until 1996 when homeless Bradford (Park Avenue) moved in and the ground was brought up to standard for football to be played. Changes were made in 2007 to ensure Horsfall met the stringent ground grading requirements of the Football Ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Bowling A
West is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (''ouest'' in French, ''oest'' in Catalan, ''ovest'' in Italian, ''vest'' in Romanian, ''oeste'' in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root ''*wes'' reduced from ''*wes-pero'' 'evening, night', cognate with Ancient Greek ἕσπερος hesperos 'evening; evening star; western' and Latin vesper 'evening; west'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin occidens 'west' from occidō 'to go down, to set' and Hebrew מַעֲרָב (maarav) 'west' from עֶרֶב (erev) 'evening'. West is sometimes abbreviated as W. Navigation To go west using a compass for navigati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Navy Rugby League
The Royal Navy Rugby League team is a British rugby league team representing the Royal Navy. They play their home matches at the United Services Recreation Ground in Portsmouth, Hampshire. They were founded in 1997 following an increase in support of rugby league by members of the Royal Navy. History Historically, rugby league had been banned in the British Armed forces since 1895 due to rugby union's Rugby Football Union's ban on anyone who played rugby league from playing rugby union. The ban was temporarily relaxed during the First World War to allow players from both codes to play together. Sailors deployed at HMNB Devonport founded a rugby league team in 1917 and they toured the country during the remainder of the war, making three tours of rugby league's northern heartlands. Most of the players involved never returned to rugby union once the ban was reinstated after the war. Despite the temporary wartime relaxation, rugby league remained banned in the Royal Navy until 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castleford Lock Lane
Lock Lane ARLFC are an amateur Rugby league Club in Castleford, West Yorkshire. Their home ground is the Castleford Sports Stadium, Hicksons Arena, part of the Lock Lane Sports Centre. The first team currently play in the National Conference League, National Conference Division One and the Academy team in the Yorkshire Men's League. History The club were formed in 1938 as an intermediate U-21 side, but were temporarily disbanded for the duration of the Second World War. They were reformed in 1947 and in 1958 reached the proper rounds of the Challenge Cup for the first time. For a time during the 1960s, and 1970s, the club had no permanent home ground, having lost the use of their ''Sandy Desert'' ground. They moved to their current ground in 1995. The club have played at the professional stage of the Challenge cup on 21 occasions. These include First Round Proper of the Challenge Cup on four occasions (1958, 1960, 1970 and 1974). In 1970, the club almost caused an upset in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldershot Military Stadium
Aldershot Military Stadium is a sports complex in Aldershot, England, comprising a combined football and athletics stadium and a smaller adjoined rugby stadium. It is the home ground of the British Army's football and rugby teams, Aldershot, Farnham and District Athletic Club and the Army Athletics Association. Location The stadia are located to the north of Aldershot just off the A325 road (Great Britain), A325, the main road to Farnborough, Hampshire, Farnborough. It is sited in the Aldershot#Aldershot Military Town, Military Town, adjoining all the military buildings including married quarters and barracks. Stadia The Military Stadium The Military Stadium has a main stand with a seated capacity of 1,128. Also sited are the changing facilities, VIP lounge and control room. It comprises a fully floodlit eight-lane synthetic athletics track with full field event facilities. During the football season the infield is converted to a football pitch with the throwing disciplines mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Air Force Rugby League
The Royal Air Force Rugby League is a British rugby league team representing the Royal Air Force. They were officially set up in 1994 following an unofficial team set up in 1992 to circumvent a British Armed Forces ban on rugby league. They play in the Challenge Cup and they play their home matches at RAF Cranwell in Cranwell, Lincolnshire. History Historically, rugby league had been banned in the British Armed Forces due to rugby union's Rugby Football Union's law stating that anyone who played rugby league would be banned from playing rugby union. Northern based Royal Air Force personnel argued for its lifting in the 1980s but it remained in place. Despite this, some RAF personnel set up an unofficial rugby league team called the "Blue Bombers" without RAF authorisation in 1992. When the ban on the sport within the services was lifted in 1994, the RAF Rugby League Association was founded by Squadron Leader Damian Clayton, who would captain the team from its foundation to 2006. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Army Rugby League
The British Army Rugby League team is the official rugby league team representing the British Army. The team was founded in 1994 when the Army first recognised rugby league as an official sport and lifted a ban on it. The new team was able to play in the Challenge Cup. The team play their home matches at Aldershot Military Stadium in Aldershot, Hampshire. An Army women's team was set up in 2008. History Historically, rugby league had been banned in the British Armed Forces due to the strength of rugby union and the Rugby Football Union's demands that anyone playing rugby league would be banned from playing rugby union. During the Second World War, the Northern Command (United Kingdom), Northern Command Sports Board (NCSB) held sympathy towards Northern soldiers who wished to play rugby league. They set up a number of matches between unofficial army representative teams and Northern clubs. This arrangement only lasted until the end of the war when the Army ended a relaxation on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
