{"id":455687,"date":"2026-03-03T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455687\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:59:08","slug":"halifax-panthers-championship-club-regain-rfl-membership-after-liquidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455687\/","title":{"rendered":"Halifax Panthers: Championship club regain RFL membership after liquidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The old club&#8217;s downfall led to fixtures against Sheffield Eagles and Barrow Raiders being unfulfilled, however the new club &#8220;will ensure those missed games are now undertaken on dates to be decided&#8221;, the RFL added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Halifax, who were champions and Challenge Cup winners in consecutive seasons in the 1980s, had been coached by former England rugby union international Kyle Eastmond prior to their demise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martyn Buchan, a local businessman who led negotiations for the new club, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a great relief that Halifax Panthers will participate in 2026 to continue their 153-year membership of the Rugby Football League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Thanks to all the invested staff, sponsors, the governing body and the Calderdale Council who have helped make it possible for this to happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The RFL has been really supportive in getting us to this stage and now, over this next period of time, we&#8217;ll be focusing on simplifying our model and doing more in the community for the good of rugby league in Halifax.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The old club&#8217;s downfall led to fixtures against Sheffield Eagles and Barrow Raiders being unfulfilled, however the new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-455687","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\/455687","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=455687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}