{"id":469123,"date":"2026-02-09T20:19:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/469123\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:19:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:19:47","slug":"halifax-panthers-championship-team-liquidated-over-hmrc-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/469123\/","title":{"rendered":"Halifax Panthers: Championship team liquidated over HMRC debt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Second-tier rugby league side Halifax Panthers have been placed into liquidation.<\/p>\n

After a hearing at the High Court on Monday, the 153-year-old club were wound-up because of money owed to His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.<\/p>\n

Halifax started their Championship season with a home win over Batley on 1 February before losing to Goole in the Challenge Cup on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“Discussions will now begin around the future of the club. Our focus is on working with all parties to secure the best possible outcome and a sustainable future for Halifax Panthers,” they said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“This is not necessarily the end of the club, and we will provide further updates as soon as we can.”<\/p>\n

Halifax, who were champions and Challenge Cup winners in consecutive seasons in the 1980s, were coached by former England rugby union international Kyle Eastmond.<\/p>\n

BBC Sport has contacted the RFL for comment.<\/p>\n

The Panthers’ plight is another blow to the sport after Featherstone Rovers were denied membership to the Championship by the Rugby Football League<\/a> last month after going into administration in December, the same month Salford Red Devils were liquidated.<\/p>\n

The former Super League side club subsequently taken over by a consortium led by ex-player Mason Caton-Brown in January and have opened the campaign with successive defeats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second-tier rugby league side Halifax Panthers have been placed into liquidation. After a hearing at the High Court…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-469123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469123","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=469123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}