{"id":578709,"date":"2026-04-01T14:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578709\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:38:09","slug":"england-rugby-league-head-coach-to-be-appointed-within-next-few-weeks-says-rfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578709\/","title":{"rendered":"England Rugby League head coach to be appointed &#8216;within next few weeks&#8217; says RFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wane had been in charge for a home World Cup in 2022 however England were knocked out in the semi-finals, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/63609522\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">losing to Samoa<\/a> in golden-point extra time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England won home series against Tonga and Samoa in the following two years but lost all three Ashes Tests to Australia on home soil last autumn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After that series defeat, Wane said there was &#8220;no question&#8221; that he was the right person to lead his nation into the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, in a statement following his departure, Wane said: &#8220;It has been the honour of my life to coach England over the last six years, but after careful reflection I believe the time is right to step aside and allow the programme to move forward into its next chapter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s opening pool match at the World Cup is against Tonga in Perth on 17 October, with games against France and Papua New Guinea to follow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wane worked on a full-time basis but the Rugby Football League has said the role will be a part-time position and initially encapsulate just this year&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wane had been in charge for a home World Cup in 2022 however England were knocked out in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-578709","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\/578709","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=578709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}