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Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 m (74 yd) wide and 112–122 m (122–133 yd) long with H-shaped posts at both ends. [1]
The first step was to reduce the Championship from 14 clubs to 13 at the end of the 2024 season. This was achieved by the bottom two clubs being relegated to League 1 but only the League 1 champions being promoted. The team finishing third-bottom in 2024 played the team winning the League 1 play-offs for the 13th spot in the 2025 Championship. [5]
The 2025 Super League season, known as the 2025 Betfred Super League for sponsorship reasons, is the 30th season of the Super League and 131st season of rugby league in Great Britain. Wigan Warriors are the defending champions, having beaten Hull Kingston Rovers in the Grand Final to win their seventh Super League title.
The Springboks and the Pumas resume their rivalry with the Rugby Championship title on the line in Melbourne
Watch England vs. Argentina in the Rugby World Cup 2023 for free from anywhere in the world.
The top nations in the rugby world will all be in action as a hectic programme of November Tests gets underway across Europe. The Autumn Nations Series returns a year after a captivating World Cup ...
The Wigan Warriors qualified by defeating the Catalans Dragons in the 2023 Super League Grand Final. They previously played in eight World Club Challenges and won four, including a 21–4 victory over Penrith in 1991. The Warriors' last appearance was in a 12-point defeat to the Sydney Roosters in the 2019 World Club Challenge.
The draws for the third and fourth rounds were made live on the BBC Sport website on 29 January. The draw took place at Widnes Vikings' DCBL Stadium . Hosted by broadcaster Tanya Arnold , the draw was made by brothers Mike and Steve O'Neill , both of whom played for Widnes in the club's 1983–84 Challenge Cup final victory.