{"id":307708,"date":"2025-12-09T22:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/307708\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T22:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:16:07","slug":"featherstone-rovers-apply-to-go-into-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/307708\/","title":{"rendered":"Featherstone Rovers apply to go into administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rovers&#8217; participation in the 2026 season has been in doubt in recent weeks, although last month the club was included in the draw for the opening rounds of the Challenge Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Announcing its intention to enter administration, Rovers&#8217; statement said it would &#8220;continue to be in dialogue with the Rugby Football League regarding a new club participating in the league and cup structure&#8221; for the season ahead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added: &#8220;It is a regrettable course of action for all concerned, but ultimately, the only course of action available.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rovers, whose men&#8217;s side have narrowly missed out on promotion to the Super League on a number of occasions in recent years, was hit with a winding-up petition last year as its money problems mounted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club has also leased its Millennium Stadium ground to non-league football side Wakefield AFC in recent years, although that arrangement ended for a second time last month when the football club moved to a new home in Pontefract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rovers&#8217; participation in the 2026 season has been in doubt in recent weeks, although last month the club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-307708","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\/307708","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=307708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}