{"id":421776,"date":"2026-02-12T12:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421776\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:46:08","slug":"halifax-panthers-championship-club-has-rugby-football-league-membership-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421776\/","title":{"rendered":"Halifax Panthers: Championship club has Rugby Football League membership removed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Halifax Panthers have had their Rugby Football League membership removed after going into liquidation. <\/p>\n

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

Halifax’s home match against Sheffield Eagles on Sunday has duly been postponed.<\/p>\n

“The RFL is committed to preserving professional rugby league in the town and will continue working with interested parties to fulfil this,” the governing body said in a statement. <\/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

The Panthers, 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

Their plight is another blow to the sport after Featherstone Rovers were denied membership to the Championship<\/a> by the RFL last month after going into administration in December, the same month Salford Red Devils were liquidated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halifax Panthers have had their Rugby Football League membership removed after going into liquidation. After a hearing at…\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-421776","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\/421776","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=421776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421776\/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=421776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}