preferred source on Google<\/a> and ensure you never miss our exclusives and breaking news!<\/p>\nBBC make Challenge Cup Second Round broadcast pick as all-Championship tie chosen<\/p>\n
This tie between Championship foes Sheffield and Whitehaven is one of only a handful which has been locked in for definite.<\/p>\n
With the Third Round draw having already been done, the pair know that the winner of their clash will host Super League opposition.<\/p>\n
Warrington Wolves will travel to either South Yorkshire or Cumbria next month, and if it\u2019s the latter, it\u2019ll be a repeat of a Third Round tie we saw last year.<\/p>\n
Craig Lingard\u2019s Sheffield side finished 11th in the Championship last year, winning just six of their 24 league games.<\/p>\n
Haven meanwhile finished eighth in League 1 in 2025, taking 15 points from 18 games via seven wins and a draw.<\/p>\n
As a result of the second and third tiers being merged ahead of this season, the pair will both compete in the Championship: and their 2026 campaigns coincidentally begin against one another this weekend.<\/p>\n
The Eagles travel to Cumbria for a clash against Haven on Sunday, six days prior to the pair\u2019s meeting in the Challenge Cup at the Steel City Stadium.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the Challenge Cup, a First Round tie re-arranged for this weekend will be shown live on The Sportsman\u2019s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n
Siddal\u2019s tie against Waterhead Warriors now kicks off at 2pm on Sunday, January 18 \u2013 and will be shown live by The Sportsman, as had been originally planned.<\/p>\n
The winner of that tie earns a home game against Rochdale Hornets which will in turn be a battle for the privilege of hosting Super League heavyweights Wigan Warriors in next month\u2019s Third Round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next weekend\u2019s all-Championship tie between Sheffield Eagles and Whitehaven in the Challenge Cup Second Round will be shown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-374578","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\/374578","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=374578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}