{"id":289800,"date":"2025-11-17T06:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T06:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289800\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T06:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T06:11:08","slug":"2026-rugby-league-pre-season-friendlies-with-dates-kick-off-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289800\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 rugby league pre-season friendlies with dates, kick-off times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keep up to date with every club\u2019s confirmed pre-season schedule ahead of the 2026 season: including dates, kick-off times and venues.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s that time of year again when clubs start to announce their pre-season matches ahead of the upcoming campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Here, Love Rugby League provides an up to date list of every pre-season match as and when they\u2019re announced.<\/p>\n<p>Boxing Day \u2013 Friday, December 26<\/p>\n<p>Wetherby Whaler Festive Challenge: Leeds Rhinos v Wakefield Trinity \u2013 Headingley (11.30am)<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, December 27<\/p>\n<p>Festive Challenge: Castleford Tigers v Featherstone Rovers \u2013 The Jungle (1.30pm)<\/p>\n<p>Friday, January 9<\/p>\n<p>Benidorm Bash: Alicante Cruzados v Kippax Harriers \u2013 Venue TBC (KO TBC)<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, January 10<\/p>\n<p>Benidorm Bash: Valencia Huracanes v TBC \u2013 Venue TBC (KO TBC)<\/p>\n<p>Benidorm Bash: Castleford Tigers v Oldham \u2013 Venue TBC (KO TBC)<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, January 11<\/p>\n<p>Doncaster v Bradford Bulls \u2013 Eco-Power Stadium (3pm)<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, January 24<\/p>\n<p>Cameron Smith Testimonial: Leeds Rhinos v Bradford Bulls \u2013 Headingley (1pm)<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, February 1<\/p>\n<p>Liam Marshall Testimonial: Wigan Warriors v Hull FC \u2013 The Brick Community Stadium (3pm)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keep up to date with every club\u2019s confirmed pre-season schedule ahead of the 2026 season: including dates, kick-off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-289800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}