Wales have clubs in the WRL Wheelchair Invitational League, the RFL Wheelchair RL Leagues and have an international side.
The Wales Rugby League strategy is for each existing WRL community club to provide Rugby League for everyone in the community, which includes juniors, open-age, Masters and Wheelchair.
The WRL Wheelchair Invitational League launched in 2023 to provide opportunities for Wheelchair players in Wales to play in a competitive league, whilst also assisting the development of the game. Each side is only allowed one elite player on the pitch at once. An elite player is classed as someone who has been in an international squad or in a Super League side in the same calendar year as the league year. Please see the individual club pages for fixtures results and full match videos.
If you want to form or join a Wheelchair Rugby League club, then email stephen.jones@walesrugbyleague.co.uk.
Wheelchair Rugby League is unique in that it offers both disabled and non-disabled players of all genders the opportunity to compete both with and against each other on a level playing field.
The sport is unique amongst wheelchair sports in that it is not a derivative but rather is faithful to the rules of the game with tries, conversions and all the other familiar aspects of the game which makes it instantly recognisable as distinctly Rugby League.
The sport is faithful to the rules of Rugby League;
• Five players in each team score tries in exactly the same way as running rugby league
• Conversions are scored by punching the ball from a tee over mini-RL posts
• Tackles are made as in tag RL by taking the attached tag or flag
• Five tackles are followed by handing over the rugby ball to the opposition
• Offside, knock-on and in touch applies as per running rugby league
