{"id":819087,"date":"2026-10-30T21:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T21:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819087\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T21:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T21:54:12","slug":"north-wales-crusaders-secure-rfl-future-after-licence-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819087\/","title":{"rendered":"North Wales Crusaders secure RFL future after licence U-turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">North Wales Crusaders have secured a place in the Rugby Football League (RFL) Championship for 2027 despite initially withdrawing their bid for a licence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crusaders withdrew from the process of bidding for a licence earlier this month after the RFL requested \u00a3150,000 in an escrow account to prove financial funding was in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, in a statement, the RFL says Crusaders owner Jamie Elkaleh &#8220;has revised his business plan and now satisfies all the governing bodies&#8217; enquiries&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is great news for North Wales Crusaders and us, as a sport, as we look forward to the new season,&#8221; said RFL chief executive Ian Nolan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;d like to thank Jamie for all his hard work in getting to this endgame.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Wales Crusaders have secured a place in the Rugby Football League (RFL) Championship for 2027 despite initially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-819087","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\/819087","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=819087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}