Rotherham in South Yorkshire has emerged as another outpost of X-League in 2024. Inspired after attending Sheffield Forgers’ winter Monday night X-League sessions, Chris Clayton and Kieran Gwynette decided to set up something similar in their hometown. Walking Rugby was the the gateway drug to X-League for the pair, who have found that the sport […]
Warrington Titans are working hard to continue to expand the X-League footprint in their part of the world. Club co-founder Chris Billinge feels that the X-League variant has helped move his club forward on their path of progress. “I am one of the co-founders of Warrington Titans who originally set up as a rugby league […]
Two X-League converts from the Warrington Warriors club feel that playing the game has had positive effects on their wellbeing. Ryan Fairclough and Darren Whitfield have been playing x-League for just over a year, and both believe that the sport has brought back feelings of belonging and achievement that they had been missing. “I’ve been […]
A former Wigan St Patrick’s amateur rugby league player is backing Paul Flannery’s Warrington Warriors as sponsor. Lee Pritchard, who also played rugby league for Doncaster and Normanton as well as St Pat’s, is the CEO of LDP Transport. He was sceptical when he first heard about X-League. Now, though, Pritchard, who is based in […]
Sheffield Forgers are set to take their X-League involvement up a level this summer, with the launch of the Forgers X-iles. The X-iles will join the club’s men’s open age and junior teams as the Forgers look to increase rugby league’s presence in Sheffield. The Forgers X-iles’ player-coach will be Zack Wilson, currently an assistant […]
Warrington Warriors will be participating in an exciting family fun day to benefit St Rocco’s Hospice in Warrington on April 29. The event, which begins at midday, is taking place at Tetley Walker Sports and Social Club, and will feature one game of rugby league and two of X-League. The headline match will be a […]
Ireland X-League international Rich Clancy believes that the Warrington Warriors are setting a template that future X-League clubs can follow. The Warriors have been set up specifically to play our variant of rugby league, and are approaching the game with a seriousness and sense of purpose that is bringing results. Clancy found X-League and the […]
Sheffield Forgers hooker Michael Delamere was a member of the victorious Ireland side that captured the Lough Leane Trophy last year in his home town.
X-League are please to announce a new way to play for 2023… Welcome to the X-League Merit League
Ireland and North Yorkshire have etched their name in history at the inaugural X-League World Cup. On Friday the X-League test nations battled it out for the chance to be the first name on the ‘Lough Leane’, Ireland coached by Des Foy of KTRA and captained by Paul Flannery of Warrington Warriors put together a […]