{"id":627221,"date":"2026-06-08T08:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627221\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T08:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:38:08","slug":"north-wales-crusaders-suffer-record-134-0-defeat-by-london-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627221\/","title":{"rendered":"North Wales Crusaders suffer record 134-0 defeat by London Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">North Wales Crusaders suffered the biggest defeat of any side in the top two divisions in the 131-year history of rugby league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were beaten 134-0 at home by London Broncos, conceding 25 tries at Stadiwm CSM in Colwyn Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the third time this season Crusaders have conceded 100 points in the Championship, including a 106-18 defeat by Broncos in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sunday&#8217;s defeat was only 10 points short of rugby league&#8217;s all-time heaviest defeat, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/43942530\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">York Knights beat North Wales Raiders 144-0 in League One in 2018.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Broncos&#8217; Emarly Bitungane opened the scoring in the first minute, with  centre Brandon Webster-Mansfield leading the try-haul with five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The London side top the Championship table with 14 wins from 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crusaders &#8211; who have lost 11 of their 14 games &#8211; are bottom on -6 points, having been handed a 12-point deduction following insolvency and a change of ownership at the start of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Wales Crusaders suffered the biggest defeat of any side in the top two divisions in the 131-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-627221","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\/627221","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=627221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}