{"id":140312,"date":"2025-09-16T03:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/140312\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T03:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:40:07","slug":"super-league-the-rfl-confirms-it-has-received-applications-from-nine-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/140312\/","title":{"rendered":"Super League: The RFL confirms it has received applications from nine clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Rugby Football League [RFL] has confirmed nine clubs have submitted formal applications to be included in next season&#8217;s expanded 14-team Super League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In an official statement, the RFL said two of Super League&#8217;s current teams, Huddersfield Giants and Hull FC, applied for entry before last Friday&#8217;s deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The seven other clubs to apply come from the Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are Bradford Bulls, Doncaster, London Broncos, Oldham, Toulouse Olympique, Widnes Vikings and York Knights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A decision announcing the composition of next year&#8217;s competition will be confirmed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/c2en43kvwdyo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thursday, 16 October.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The RFL said 12 positions will be determined by the IMG club grading process, with an elected seven-person panel deciding on whether to add two further clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lord Caine will chair the panel, which includes Tony Sutton, departing chief executive of the RFL, and Rugby League Commercial&#8217;s managing director Rhodri Jones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rugby Football League [RFL] has confirmed nine clubs have submitted formal applications to be included in next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-140312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}