{"id":417170,"date":"2026-02-10T02:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417170\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T02:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:02:08","slug":"halifax-panthers-championship-team-liquidated-over-hmrc-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417170\/","title":{"rendered":"Halifax Panthers: Championship team liquidated over HMRC debt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Second-tier rugby league side Halifax Panthers have been placed into liquidation.<\/p>\n

After a hearing at the High Court on Monday, the 153-year-old club were wound-up because of money owed to His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.<\/p>\n

Halifax started their Championship season with a home win over Batley on 1 February before losing to Goole in the Challenge Cup on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“Discussions will now begin around the future of the club. Our focus is on working with all parties to secure the best possible outcome and a sustainable future for Halifax Panthers,” they said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“This is not necessarily the end of the club, and we will provide further updates as soon as we can.”<\/p>\n

Halifax, who were champions and Challenge Cup winners in consecutive seasons in the 1980s, were coached by former England rugby union international Kyle Eastmond.<\/p>\n

The Rugby Football League said in a statement: “The board of the RFL will meet to consider all options this week.<\/p>\n

“Our thoughts are with the players, coaches, club staff and fans that will be affected on hearing today’s news.”<\/p>\n

The Panthers’ plight is another blow to the sport after Featherstone Rovers were denied membership to the Championship by the RFL<\/a> last month after going into administration in December, the same month Salford Red Devils were liquidated.<\/p>\n

The former Super League side club subsequently taken over by a consortium led by ex-player Mason Caton-Brown in January and have opened the campaign with successive defeats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second-tier rugby league side Halifax Panthers have been placed into liquidation. After a hearing at the High Court…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-417170","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\/417170","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=417170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}