{"id":294928,"date":"2025-12-02T13:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/294928\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T13:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:30:07","slug":"vikings-2026-championship-fixtures-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/294928\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings&#8217; 2026 Championship fixtures revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Widnes Vikings will start the 2026 Championship season with a trip to London to face the Broncos on Sunday January 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The first home game of the season will see North Wales Crusaders visit the DCBL Stadium on Sunday February 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The new merged Championship competition consists of 21 teams, 12 of which we will play home and away during the regular season, meaning a total of 24 games. There will be two \u2018bye\u2019 weekends due to the odd number of teams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/widnesvikings.co.uk\/2025-season-tickets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">GET YOUR SEASON TICKET: Early bird deadline extended!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The top 10 teams in the table at the end of the season qualify for the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Our first league game against Salford Red Devils since 2018 will be away on Friday May 8, while the return fixture at the DCBL Stadium will also be a Friday night game on July 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">That is one of two scheduled Friday night games, the other being the visit of Oldham on June 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There will also be a Saturday evening game, when Barrow Raiders come to town on July 18. The trip to Cumbria to face Barrow takes place on Good Friday, April 3.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34718\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/widnes-vikings-2026-fixtures.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1190\" height=\"841\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Widnes Vikings\u2019 2026 Championship fixture list<\/p>\n<p>1 \u2013 Sun 18 Jan \u2013 London Broncos \u2013 Away \u2013 3pm<br \/>\n2 \u2013 Sun 1 Feb \u2013 North Wales Crusaders \u2013 Home \u2013 3pm<br \/>\n3 \u2013 Sun 15 Feb \u2013 Workington Town \u2013 Away \u2013 3pm<br \/>\n4 \u2013 Fri 20 Feb \u2013 Oldham \u2013 Away \u2013 7.45pm<br \/>\n5 \u2013 Bye week<br \/>\n6 \u2013 Sun 8 Mar \u2013 Hunslet \u2013 Home \u2013 3pm<br \/>\n7 \u2013 Sun 22 Mar \u2013 Doncaster \u2013 Away \u2013 3pm<br \/>\n8 \u2013 Sun 29 Mar \u2013 Featherstone Rovers \u2013 Home \u2013 3pm<br \/>\n9 \u2013 Fri 3 Apr \u2013 Barrow Raiders \u2013 Away \u2013 3pm<br \/>\n10 \u2013 Sun 12 Apr \u2013 Dewsbury Rams \u2013 Away \u2013 3pm<br \/>\n11 \u2013 Sun 26 Apr \u2013 Halifax Panthers \u2013 Home \u2013 3pm<br \/>\n12 \u2013 Sun 3 May \u2013 Sheffield Eagles \u2013 Home \u2013 3pm<br \/>\n13 \u2013 Fri 8 May \u2013 Salford Red Devils \u2013 Away \u2013 8pm<br \/>\n14 \u2013 Bye week<br \/>\n15 \u2013 Sun 7 Jun \u2013 Dewsbury Rams \u2013 Home \u2013 3pm<br \/>\n16 \u2013 Sun 14 Jun \u2013 Doncaster \u2013 Home \u2013 3pm<br \/>\n17 \u2013 Sun 21 Jun \u2013 Hunslet \u2013 Away \u2013 3pm<br \/>\n18 \u2013 Fri 26 Jun \u2013 Oldham \u2013 Home \u2013 7.30pm<br \/>\n19 \u2013 Sun 12 Jul \u2013 North Wales Crusaders \u2013 Away \u2013 3pm<br \/>\n20 \u2013 Sat 18 Jul \u2013 Barrow Raiders \u2013 Home \u2013 5pm<br \/>\n21 \u2013 Sun 24 Jul \u2013 Salford Red Devils \u2013 Home \u2013 7.30pm<br \/>\n22 \u2013 Sun 2 Aug \u2013 London Broncos \u2013 Home \u2013 3pm<br \/>\n23 \u2013 Sun 9 Aug \u2013 Featherstone Rovers \u2013 Away \u2013 3pm<br \/>\n24 \u2013 Sun 16 Aug \u2013 Halifax Panthers \u2013 Away \u2013 3pm<br \/>\n25 \u2013 Sun 23 Aug \u2013 Workington Town \u2013 Home \u2013 3pm<br \/>\n26 \u2013 Sun 30 Aug \u2013 Sheffield Eagles \u2013 Away \u2013 3pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Widnes Vikings will start the 2026 Championship season with a trip to London to face the Broncos on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-294928","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\/294928","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=294928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}