{"id":23940,"date":"2025-07-26T00:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T00:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/23940\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T00:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T00:19:07","slug":"super-league-catalans-dragons-to-face-wigan-warriors-in-paris-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/23940\/","title":{"rendered":"Super League: Catalans Dragons to face Wigan Warriors in Paris in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catalans Dragons will meet Wigan Warriors in Paris in 2026 to mark the 20th anniversary of the French club’s debut in Super League.<\/p>\n

The two teams will play at the Stade Jean-Bouin, home of rugby union outfit Stade Francais, on 6 June next year.<\/p>\n

The match will also mark the 30th anniversary of Super League, which kicked off on March 29, 1996, when Paris St Germain met Sheffield Eagles<\/a> at the Charlety Stadium.<\/p>\n

Catalans Dragons president Bernard Guasch said: “It is a great honour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Super League in Paris, where it all began in 1996. <\/p>\n

“It will mark the return of professional rugby league to our capital and I have no doubt it will be an emotional occasion, both for French and English fans.”<\/p>\n

Warriors chief executive Kris Radlinski added: “It’s a great honour to take our wonderful sport back to Paris. <\/p>\n

“This June will mark 30 years since I had the privilege of playing in the Wigan side that narrowly defeated Paris Saint-Germain in what was a historic occasion. Now, to return with our club to this iconic city to face Catalans Dragons is another landmark moment.”<\/p>\n

The match will also be Catalans’ first match relocation since they faced Wigan at Barcelona’s Camp Nou<\/a> in 2019, a game which broke the Super League attendance record with a gate of 31,555.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catalans Dragons will meet Wigan Warriors in Paris in 2026 to mark the 20th anniversary of the French…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-23940","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\/23940","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=23940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}