Wales Rugby League partner with VX3 and parent company Lovell Rugby

Wales Rugby League have joined forces with VX3 and parent company Lovell Rugby to announce an exciting, new long- term partnership. Under the new agreement, VX3 will provide new playing kits, performance training and leisurewear for the new season for Wales Rugby League’s (WRL) senior men’s and women’s sides, together with the elite player pathways …

North Wales set for a big representative rugby league weekend

Wales Rugby League are preparing for a big North Wales weekend with five international matches and one representative game over three locations. The event that encompasses the whole weekend is at Plas Madoc Leisure Centre in Wrexham where Wales are hosting a Wheelchair Tri-Nations tournament against England and Scotland. Wales open the event when they …

WRL, in partnership with Sporting Records Online Ltd, launches new data website

Wales Rugby League have today officially launched www.rugbyleague.wales, their new online home for Wales international rugby league stats. The brainchild of Ian Golden, the head of media at Wales Rugby League, he is providing the data through his company “Sporting Records Online Ltd” who are the official data partners for top level rugby union clubs like …

History to be made in third game of triple header Origin Day on Sunday in Neath

History will be made in Neath on Sunday where three brothers take to the field in a Wales representative side for the first time, as East Wales face West in the first match of the men’s Origin series. Liam Watton, 28, the captain of the East Wales side for the series, welcomes his brothers Shaun, …

Wales Dragonhearts to celebrate 25th anniversary with three matches

Wales Dragonhearts, the representative side of Wales Rugby League’s community game, will celebrate their 25th anniversary season with matches against North-West England Lions, Slovakia and England Lions U23. They will open their season at Sardis Road on Saturday 26th October against North-West England Lions (kick-off 3pm) in the second part of a double header of …

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U16 DEVELOPMENT MATCH – WALES DEVELOPMENT 30 NORTH-WEST ENGLAND LIONS 28 By Sian Golden at Stebonheath Park Wales made history later in the day by fielding their first ever U16 development side and in a dramatic fiery encounter against North-West England Lions, they came back from 28-6 down to win 30-28. In the development capped …

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YOUTH INTERNATIONAL – WALES 16 ENGLAND 38 By Ian Golden at Stebonheath Park England won the annual under 16 international against Wales for the second year in a row but not without surviving a scare in the first half where Wales took a 12-6 lead. The visitors took advantage of Welsh errors in the first …

Semi-final weekend in Wales

IT’S the penultimate week of the 2019 Welsh Rugby League domestic season with semi-finals at four different levels taking place. The prize at stake is a place in Grand Finals day at Sardis Road on Sunday 11th August and Rhondda Outlaws, who finished top of the Premier League table, are determined to reach the event …

Wales name U16 first team and development squads

Wales have released two different Under 16 squads where they will all be competing for a place in the side to face England on August 31 at Stebonheath Park in Llanelli (kick-off 3pm). Head coach Lee Crooks has named a 20-man “first team”, plus a 15-man development squad who will be ready to step up …