{"id":48008,"date":"2025-08-06T13:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T13:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/48008\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T13:46:08","slug":"london-broncos-set-for-new-ownership-group-as-gary-hetherington-reveals-exciting-news-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/48008\/","title":{"rendered":"London Broncos set for new ownership group as Gary Hetherington reveals exciting news \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LONDON BRONCOS are set to make major announcements in the coming weeks over a new ownership group, director Gary Hetherington has revealed.<\/p>\n

Hetherington will step down as Leeds Rhinos chief executive at the end of the 2025 season following over two decades in charge.<\/p>\n

Now he will step up the plans for the Broncos to try and once more reach Super League after being relegated after just one season back in 2024.<\/p>\n

The 71-year-old intends to transfer a majority stake to a new group of shareholders who will underpin the plan to take the club forward and grow interest in both the club and rugby league throughout the South of England.<\/p>\n

Now Hetherington has revealed that a new ownership group will be announced in the upcoming weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cInvestment is the starting point. We need people who are committed and that can add value for the vision to help London thrive rather than survive,\u201d Hetherington said on the\u00a0League Express podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to share the ownership of London with other committed people and that\u2019s a search that\u2019s been going on for quite a while and that something is coming to fruition now.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the next several weeks and certainly within the next few months we will announce the new ownership group for London Broncos.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve spoken to a lot of people from a lot of organisations that have an interest in having a vested interest in this project.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are are looking for is people who can invest and every penny of that investment will be used as working capital to improve things that need improving.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we need organisations and individuals who can come and add value in the longer-term as well. So we\u2019re not quite looking for sleeping partners for example.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are looking for investors, take a shareholding and then add some ongoing value as a sponsor or by knowing other potential sponsors or having certain expertise in a certain sector like marketing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe vision is to create a successful Super League team out of London Broncos. In time we want it to be full of players from the south that have been nurtured from a young age and who become professional players.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON BRONCOS are set to make major announcements in the coming weeks over a new ownership group, director…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-48008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48008","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=48008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}