{"id":371912,"date":"2026-01-15T19:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371912\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:29:08","slug":"umyla-hanley-leigh-leopards-centre-signs-contract-extension-with-super-league-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371912\/","title":{"rendered":"Umyla Hanley: Leigh Leopards centre signs contract extension with Super League club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leigh Leopards centre Umyla Hanley has signed a new two-year deal to remain with the Super League club until the end of the 2028 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old, son of rugby league legend Ellery, joined Leigh in 2023 having spent two seasons with Wigan Warriors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hanley, who has also played on the wing and at full-back, has made 59 appearances for the Leopards in all competitions and scored 27 tries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m absolutely buzzing, I absolutely love this club,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/leighleopards.co.uk\/umyla-hanley-signs-leopards-extenstion\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve really enjoyed my time here and hopefully we can build on last season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During his time with Leigh, Hanley has won the Challenge Cup as well as being named in last season&#8217;s Super League Dream Team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He formed an effective partnership with Keenan Brand last season as Leigh went on to finish third in the Super League table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The scary thing is, I think there&#8217;s still a lot to come from him, there are also leadership qualities in him that are starting to shine through,&#8221; boss Adrian Lam said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are grateful that he will play a major part of our future and our success.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leigh Leopards centre Umyla Hanley has signed a new two-year deal to remain with the Super League club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-371912","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\/371912","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=371912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}