{"id":571207,"date":"2026-05-07T14:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/571207\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:47:08","slug":"womens-challenge-cup-semi-finals-wembley-awaits-two-of-wigan-york-leeds-and-st-helens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/571207\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Challenge Cup semi-finals: Wembley awaits two of Wigan, York, Leeds and St Helens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wigan’s all-conquering 2025 campaign realised their potential and promise in spectacular fashion.<\/p>\n

With Izzy Rowe, Jenna Foubister, Grace Banks and Woman of Steel Eva Hunter to the fore, Wigan stormed to Wembley and thrashed fierce rivals Saints under the arch<\/a> in a mesmerising display of attacking rugby.<\/p>\n

They then took that knockout form into the league campaign and were equally dazzling, finishing top of the regular season WSL and beating Saints again in the Grand Final.<\/a><\/p>\n

For head coach Denis Betts, himself a multiple cup winner with Wigan, it means everything to see the players he has energised making their own history at a club synonymous with success.<\/p>\n

“It’s massive this years to see those photos around the stadium of the girls that the club are so good at,” Betts told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n

“Most of these girls went and supported those Wigan men’s teams that have their photos of success up, and now they see pictures of Izzy Rowe, Jenna Foubister, Grace Banks, Mary Coleman up around the likes of Liam Farrell.<\/p>\n

“It makes a massive difference to them.”<\/p>\n

York now stand in the way of the holders’ efforts to retain their crown on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wigan’s all-conquering 2025 campaign realised their potential and promise in spectacular fashion. With Izzy Rowe, Jenna Foubister, Grace…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-571207","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\/571207","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=571207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}