{"id":480427,"date":"2026-03-17T13:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480427\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:23:07","slug":"challenge-cup-draw-hull-kr-york-wakefield-wigan-saints-catalans-and-wire-leigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480427\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenge Cup draw: Hull KR-York, Wakefield-Wigan, Saints-Catalans and Wire-Leigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Success at Wembley last June ended a 45-year wait to lift the Challenge Cup for Hull KR and was the start of a remarkable run which saw them win four trophies in eight months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But they did lose to quarter-final opponents York in the Knights&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cy4wy5j55klo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first ever Super League game<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wakefield last won this competition in 1963, but to reach the last four, they will have to get past record 20-time winners Wigan, who have a 100% record in all competitions in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their impressive run of form is matched by Warrington, who face a Leigh side that is struggling in the league, while St Helens will be confident of seeing off Catalans at home to reach the last four for the first time since 2023.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Success at Wembley last June ended a 45-year wait to lift the Challenge Cup for Hull KR and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-480427","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\/480427","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=480427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}