{"id":247022,"date":"2025-11-06T09:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T09:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/247022\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T09:20:08","slug":"world-club-challenge-returns-with-hull-kr-v-brisbane-broncos-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/247022\/","title":{"rendered":"World Club Challenge returns with Hull KR v Brisbane Broncos in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The World Club Challenge will return to being played when Super League champions Hull KR host NRL title holders Brisbane Broncos on 19 February next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The match did not take place in 2025 because the Penrith Panthers could not agree a date to play Wigan Warriors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hull KR, whose Craven Park home holds 11,000 fans, have said the game against the Broncos will take place at Hull FC&#8217;s 25,000-capacity MKM Stadium to &#8220;allow as many fans [as possible to] be there to see it unfold live&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With offers from around the world to host the game, we are delighted to bring the World Club Challenge home to Hull,&#8221; said Hull KR chief executive Paul Lakin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re determined to put on the biggest rugby league event the city has ever seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Broncos will be aiming to win the World Club Challenge, which has taken place 30 times, for the first time since 1997.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a special opportunity to take a group of players and staff across to the other side of the world to take on the Super League champions,&#8221; said Broncos head coach Michael Maguire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The World Club Challenge will return to being played when Super League champions Hull KR host NRL title&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-247022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247022","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=247022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}