{"id":298870,"date":"2025-12-04T16:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/298870\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T16:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:43:07","slug":"widnes-to-face-warrington-in-pre-season-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/298870\/","title":{"rendered":"Widnes to face Warrington in pre-season clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Widnes Vikings will travel to local rivals Warrington Wolves for a pre-season friendly on Friday January 9, 7.30pm, at the Halliwell Jones Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides met in a competitive fixture for the first time in seven years last season, with more than 7,000 in attendance at the DCBL Stadium. In last season\u2019s friendly at Warrington, the Vikings were 36-22 winners with Mike Butt scoring two tries.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the only chance to see Allan Coleman\u2019s 2026 Vikings side in action ahead of the Championship season opener away at London Broncos on January 18.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available to purchase via the Vikings Club Shop from tomorrow (Friday) or online via Warrington Wolves, priced at \u00a317 for Adults, \u00a312 for Concessions and \u00a35 Juniors across all stands.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a \u00a32 discount on prices for 2026 Season Ticket holders (only available via Vikings Club Shop).<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/widnesvikings.co.uk\/vikings-2026-championship-fixtures-revealed\/\" aria-label=\"\u201cVikings\u2019 2026 Championship fixtures revealed\u201d (Edit)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vikings\u2019 2026 Championship fixtures revealed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Widnes Vikings will travel to local rivals Warrington Wolves for a pre-season friendly on Friday January 9, 7.30pm,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-298870","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\/298870","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=298870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}