Following medical advice, Ffion Jenkins has retired from rugby league. Red Thread number 48, Ffion made her debut against France in 2023 and pulled on the Welsh shirt seven times, including in the history-making World Cup qualifier against Netherlands in 2024. “It has been an incredible journey and an absolute honour to have represented Wales,” …
Welsh supporters can watch both of our sides live on TV throughout our 2026 Rugby League World Cup campaigns. All of Wales Women and Wales Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup group matches will be shown live on Premier Sports back home in Cymru, giving supporters the chance to follow both teams as they take on …
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A campaign has been launched to raise £10,000 to support Cymru’s wheelchair rugby league team as they prepare to represent Wales at the Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup in Australia later this year. Donate to 10,000 x £1 = CYMRU The ‘10,000 for CYMRU’ campaign is calling on people across Wales, as well as supporters around the …
In the penultimate edition of our monthly “World Cup Watch” articles, we look at how our squad hopefuls in the women’s and wheelchair games performed over the last month. Wales have named a 15-player wheelchair training squad, and ahead of their camp at the end of this month, many players have been in action. Stuart …
Wales Wheelchair Rugby League side head coach Alan Caron has named a 15-player squad to train for the World Cup that will be held in Australia in October and November this year. This squad will train at the end of August before numbers are reduced to the final travelling squad of 12. Six remain from …
This is an urgent call. Our Wales Wheelchair side is crowdfunding for the World Cup, and we still only have a small percentage of our target raised. We have just two days left on our Crowdfunder at https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/wrl-wheelchair-team-road-to-world-cup-2026 The Wales Rugby League (WRL) Wheelchair National team is made up of the best players …
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It’s 100 days until Wales start their Wheelchair World Cup campaign, when we take on England at WIN Entertainment Centre in Wollongong on Friday 30th October, just 90 minutes south of Sydney. The match, which kicks off at 3.30 pm local time (4.30 am GMT), is the second match in the tournament, immediately following the …
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Canada pulled out all the stops to beat Wales, with their defence excelling throughout the game. Wales looked to have more possession and more attacks, but their visitors always had an answer for everything that was thrown at them, with full-back Petra Woods and substitute Tamisha Toussaint especially excelling. Canada, coached by former Wales men’s …
International Rugby League has announced that the Men’s, Women’s and Wheelchair World Cups will continue to be played together, with the three disciplines to again be staged concurrently in 2030. A meeting of the IRL Board on Tuesday decided that the 2030 World Cup should maintain the same format as RLWC26 in Australia, New Zealand and …
The draws for the 2026 Rugby League World Cups have been made, with Wales set to open their campaigns against England in both the Women’s and Wheelchair events. In their other group matches, Wales Women will be breaking new ground by taking on both the World Champions, Australia, plus Samoa for the first time, whilst Wales …
