Wales Students to hold Origin day to trial for national side

Wales Rugby League are holding their first ever one-day Student Rugby League Origin Series so potential players can trial for the Welsh national side who will compete in the 2020 Four Nations. To qualify you must be a full or part-time student anywhere in the world and be one or more of these: Welsh born …

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 …

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 …

WRL send good luck message to our students in the GB Pioneers side

Good luck to our three Wales Students Rugby League players who are currently out in Albania getting ready to play their first match of a two- game tour today. Rowland Kaye and Kyle King from Cardiff Metropolitan University, join George Edge from University of Warwick on the tour. Kaye, who also plays for West Wales …

Wales Students to take on UK Armed Forces in Nelson on Wednesday

Wales Students are to take on the United Kingdom Armed Forces Rugby League side at Nelson RFC this Wednesday (kick-off 7pm). The Welsh have just come off the back of a tough Four Nations campaign and are using this encounter to help their relationship with the armed forces and to raise funds for students programme. …

Wales Students name their squad for Edinburgh Four Nations

Wales Students head coach Paul Emanuelli has named his 20-man squad for the forthcoming Four Nations competition, which is to be played at Edinburgh University from June 22-30. His side won their final warm-up match on Sunday, a 40-22 defeat of Welsh Premier League side Rhondda Outlaws at Sardis Road, and that helped him make …

WRL chairman Brian Juliff’s New Year’s Eve message

PIC – Brian inducts Dai Watkins into the Wales Rugby League Hall of Fame, earlier in 2018. As 2018 draws to a close I wanted to thank everyone for their support to Wales Rugby League during the year. After returning home from RLWC2017, we faced questions about our strategy and direction following some very tough …

WRL support Scorpions pathway development

The Rugby League Academy at Coleg Y Cymoedd will soon transfer from Wales Rugby League to South Wales Scorpions, in alignment with all the other category 3 academies in the UK which are all linked to professional clubs. Wales Rugby League’s Chief Executive Officer Chris Thair said: “Wales Rugby League put a lot of time, …

Coleg Y Cymoedd awarded Academy status

Coleg Y Cymoedd, a further education college in Rhondda Cynon Taff, has been awarded the status of an Accredited Rugby Football League Category 3 Academy. This award is given on a continual rolling annual basis subject to twice annual reviews being satisfactory. It means that Rugby League will be taught full-time in the college and …

Swansea University are promoted

The City of Swansea has another Premier League side to be proud of with this one being their University’s Rugby League side. The Warpigs, as they are known, have just clinched promotion to the Premier League after being successful in the Divsion 1A play-offs. The Warpigs won their league, Western 1A, which put them into …