{"id":493131,"date":"2026-03-24T19:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493131\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T19:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:25:08","slug":"nigel-wood-rugby-football-league-appoint-new-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493131\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Wood: Rugby Football League appoint new chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nigel Wood has been appointed as the new chairman of the Rugby Football League [RFL] after being elected by council members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wood, the organisation&#8217;s chief executive between 2011 and 2018, was voted in after the RFL&#8217;s nominations committee put forward their proposed candidates for the role last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He returned to the RFL board as senior executive director last March and was appointed as commercial chairman in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am honoured and grateful that members have voted for me to chair the RFL board as we undertake important work in our bid to grow the sport,&#8221; Wood <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugby-league.com\/article\/64658\/rfl-board-update-%E2%80%93-march-24-\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the RFL website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is much to be enthused about as Super League celebrates its 30th birthday and we continue to implement the important findings of our strategic review.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four independent non-executive directors &#8211; Dermot Power, Lord Jonathan Caine, Sara Symington and Emma Rosewarne &#8211; have also been voted in by the RFL Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The RFL added that the council had voted to admit entry to new phoenix club Salford RLFC &#8211; with the articles of association amended accordingly &#8211; following Salford Red Devils&#8217; liquidation in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigel Wood has been appointed as the new chairman of the Rugby Football League [RFL] after being elected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-493131","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\/493131","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=493131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}