\n After Sheffield Eagles beat Whitehaven 18-6 on Saturday for the right to face The Wire, it appeared as though Sam Burgess\u2019 side were set for a first ever trip to the Steel City Stadium home at which the South Yorkshire have played home matches since 2018.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, it has now been confirmed that the tie has been reversed and will instead be played at The Halliwell Jones Stadium on Friday, February 6, kick off 7.30pm with ticket information to be released in due course.\n<\/p>\n
\n Having ceded home advantage, Sheffield Eagles said the decision to reverse the game “offers financial benefits for both clubs and allows for a larger crowd.”\n<\/p>\n
\n It now means that Warrington\u2019s first five fixtures of 2026 \u2013 both competitive and otherwise \u2013 will now be played on home soil.\n<\/p>\n
\n Having already welcomed Widnes Vikings on January 9, The Wire host Leigh Leopards in their second and final friendly match on Friday and then, following the cup tie, their Super League matches in Rounds One and Three against St Helens and Wakefield Trinity respectively are also home games.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Wire were meant to be visiting defending champions Hull KR in Round Two but that game has been postponed until later in the season due to the Robins\u2019 involvement in the World Club Challenge.\n<\/p>\n
\n As such, Warrington\u2019s first away fixture of 2026 will be the Round Four trip to newly-promoted York Knights on Friday, March 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Sheffield Eagles beat Whitehaven 18-6 on Saturday for the right to face The Wire, it appeared as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-392071","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\/392071","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=392071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}