Ben Kaye (born 19 December 1988) is an English

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

footballer who last played as a for the

Batley Bulldogs The Batley Bulldogs are an English professional rugby league club in Batley, West Yorkshire, who play in the Championship. Batley were one of the original twenty-two rugby football clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895. ...

in the

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. He played for the

Leeds Rhinos The Leeds Rhinos are a professional rugby league club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The club play their home games at Headingley Rugby Stadium, AMT Headingley Rugby Stadium and compete in the Super League, the top tier of British rugby lea ...

and Harlequins RL in the

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, and for

Featherstone Rovers Featherstone Rovers are a professional rugby league club in Featherstone, West Yorkshire, England. The club play home games at Post Office Road and currently compete in the Championship, the second tier of British rugby league. Featherstone ...

and Halifax in the

Background

Kaye was born in Morley,

West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a Metropolitan counties of England, metropolitan and Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and east, South Yorkshire and De ...

, England. Kaye played junior rugby league for Churwell Chiefs ARLFC and played for England at under-16 level.

Career

Playing career

He made a try scoring début against Harlequins RL in March 2008 when playing for

Leeds Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built aro ...

. After a spell in London with Harlequins RL Kaye headed back north to join Championship club

. On 18 August 2020 it was reported that Kaye would join

Batley Batley is a market town in the Kirklees district, in West Yorkshire, England, south-west of Leeds, north-west of Wakefield and Dewsbury, south-east of Bradford and north-east of Huddersfield, in the Heavy Woollen District. In 2011, the popu ...

for the 2021 season.

Coaching

When assistant coach, he took over as joint interim head coach, with Jaymes Chapman, at

for one match in June 2025, following the departure of Mark Moxon, and prior to the appointment of

John Kear John Kear (born 25 November 1954) is an English professional rugby league coach, for the Wales national rugby league team. He also works as a pundit for BBC Sport and is a former professional rugby league footballer. He is perhaps best known a ...

References

External links

Halifax profile
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Profile at featherstonerovers.netHarlequins profile
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Leeds Rhinos profile
1988 births Living people 21st-century English sportsmen Batley Bulldogs coaches Batley Bulldogs players English rugby league players Featherstone Rovers players Halifax Panthers players Leeds Rhinos players London Broncos players Rugby league hookers Rugby league players from West Yorkshire Sportspeople from Morley, West Yorkshire {{England-rugbyleague-bio-stub