{"id":453475,"date":"2026-03-02T11:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453475\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T11:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:08:12","slug":"hull-kr-leeds-rhinos-amid-new-record-las-vegas-attendance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453475\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull KR, Leeds Rhinos amid new record Las Vegas attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hull KR and Leeds Rhinos supporters played their part in achieving a new record crowd for rugby league\u2019s annual bonanza in Las Vegas: with a total of 45,719 packing into the Allegiant Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/club\/hull-kr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Robins<\/a> and the Rhinos played out the first of three games in Sin City on Saturday night, with Brad Arthur\u2019s side toppling the reigning Super League champions in style with a thumping 58-6 victory.<\/p>\n<p>No standalone attendance figure was recorded for that Super League clash, but it\u2019s believed that between 10-12,000 English fans made their way to the United States to watch it live.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the crowd figure dished out was an amalgamated one: including the crowd(s) that watched the two NRL games which followed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/club\/leeds-rhinos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds<\/a>\u2018 win against KR.<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle Knights beat North Queensland Cowboys 28-18 before Canterbury Bulldogs pipped St George Illawarra Dragons 15-14 in Golden Point, handing the Vegas spectacle a dramatic ending.<\/p>\n<p>Want more Love Rugby League? Add us as a <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=loverugbyleague.com\" target=\"_blank\">preferred source on Google<\/a> and ensure you never miss our exclusives and breaking news!<\/p>\n<p>2026 Las Vegas crowd revealed as new attendance record set<\/p>\n<p>The crowd of 45,719 is the biggest on record since rugby league took over Sin City for the first time in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>On that occasion, there were just two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/nrl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> games in the schedule: but a healthy crowd of 40,746 were present.<\/p>\n<p>2025 then brought four games, with Wigan Warriors beating Warrington Wolves in the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/super-league\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super League<\/a> involvement in the event and Australia thumping England\u2019s women in an international clash alongside the two NRL games.<\/p>\n<p>That four-game event drew a crowd of 45,209, but it was decided that there was one match too many in the schedule, so one was removed ahead of 2026 to take it down to a triple-header.<\/p>\n<p>And even with a game less, this year\u2019s edition of rugby league\u2019s Vegas takeover still managed to attract the highest \u00a0attendance yet.<\/p>\n<p>510 more supporters were in the Allegiant Stadium on Saturday night than this time last year, meaning 2026 takes top billing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hull KR and Leeds Rhinos supporters played their part in achieving a new record crowd for rugby league\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-453475","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\/453475","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=453475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}