Tag: rugby

Halifax Panthers Rugby League wheelchair team, kick off their season with a home game against their fierce rivals the Leeds Rhinos, on 16th June 2024. followed by.

London away 30th June

Hull 14th July 2024

Wigan away weekend of 20th/21st July

Leeds away 10th August 2024

London 18th August 2024

Hull away weekend of 31st Aug/1st sept

Wigan 15th Sept 2024

All home games are played at Sedbergh Sports centre Odsal Bradford, with 2 games being played on the same day, the Super league team and the reserve team playing. KO 12pm and 3pm. Wheelchair rugby is the most inclusive sport, with women and men, young and old, disabled and non-disabled players playing together.”

Halifax Panthers Wheelchair Rugby League Club is an integral part of the Halifax Rugby League family. As well as being one of wheelchair sport’s most successful teams, the club also has close links with the community in Calderdale.

For the first team, the last ten years have seen a number of successes, including a league championship, three wins in Grand Finals, three Challenge Cup victories and a European Championship. Twice they have done the Grand-final, Challenge Cup double.

Halifax Panthers Wheelchair Rugby League Club’s roots go back to 2005, when the club was set up. With strong ties to the Calderdale Community Coaching Trust (CCCT), as well as its first team responsibilities, the club acts as an inspirational vehicle for disability sport and disability awareness in the area.

Sheffield Eagles will partner the Rugby Football League in hosting the first Women’s Wheelchair Rugby League Festival on Saturday 11^th May.

The event will take place at Concord Leisure Centre in Sheffield, 1pm to 3pm, arrivals from 12.30pm.

The first hour of the event will see England Head Coach Tom Coyd MBE lead a carousel of coaching stations before the second hour will see game play opportunities for all taking part.

The event is free and is open to both women who would like to try Wheelchair Rugby League for the first time or who already have experience.

“Ahead of the 2023 Betfred Challenge Cup Final we hosted a small women’s only Wheelchair Rugby League taster event” explained Martin Coyd OBE, England Wheelchair RL General Manager. “The interest was huge and whilst plenty of the women taking part said they loved playing in the mixed environment with men, they also said that they liked their own space and we should look at staging more women’s only events. The event on 11^th May is in response to that – it will be the first of some new and exciting women’s only activity which we plan will take place at all levels of the pathway.”

To sign up, simply email jack.pemberton@eaglesfoundation.co.uk and provide your name, email, a mobile number and whether or not you will be brining your own sports wheelchair no later than Thursday 9^th May. Further details will be sent to you in due course.