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2018 Rugby League European Championship
The 2018 European Championship is an international rugby league tournament that took place in October and November 2018. Four teams competed in the tournament, which forms the top tier of European international competition, and the first stage of qualification for the 2021 Rugby League World Cup. The winner and runner-up will automatically qualify for the World Cup, while the third and fourth placed teams will enter the European play-off qualifying competition. Teams The championship will be contested by the national teams of France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Wales are the defending champions having won the previous competition, the 2015 European Cup. Standings The championship is a single round-robin tournament with two points awarded for a win and one point for a draw. The matches will take place over three consecutive weekends commencing 26 October 2018. Fixtures Notes: * '' James Bentley, Lewis Bienek, Liam Byrne, Jack Higginson, Ronan Michael, Declan O'Donnell, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgan Escaré
Morgan Escaré (born 18 October 1991) is a French professional rugby league footballer who plays as a for AS Carcassonne in the Elite One Championship and France national rugby league team, France at international level. Escaré previously played for the Salford Red Devils, Catalans Dragons and the Wigan Warriors in the Super League, and has spent time on loan from both Wigan Warriors, Wigan and Salford Red Devils, Salford at Wakefield Trinity in the top flight. Background Escare was born in Perpignan, France. Club career 2013 Following injury to Brent Webb, Escaré made his Super League debut against the Bradford Bulls in Round 8 of Super League XVIII. He enjoyed an eye-catching debut season, scoring 19 tries in 20 games and establishing himself as a first-choice player for the club. He ended the year with selection in the France national rugby league team, France squad for the 2013 Rugby League World Cup. 2014 Escaré continued his form in 2014, scoring 28 tries in 31 appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bentley (rugby League)
James Bentley (born 19 October 1997) is an Ireland international rugby league footballer who plays as a or for the Leeds Rhinos in the Super League. He played for the Bradford Bulls in the Championship. Bentley played for St Helens in the Betfred Super League and spent time on loan from Saints at the Sheffield Eagles and the Leigh Centurions in the Betfred Championship. Background Bentley was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Playing career Early career Bentley started his path towards a professional Rugby League career at Featherstone Rovers in the scholarship ranks after coming from nearby, Oulton Raiders. After his first season with the club, no game time and a change of coaching staff, he followed the fellow coaching staff to Bradford Bulls. Bradford Bulls Bentley came up through the Bradford Bulls academy and made his initial appearance for the Bradford Bulls in 2016 against the Castleford Tigers in a pre season game and went on to make sporadic appearances th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Ward (rugby League)
Michael Ward (born 10 February 1991) is an Ireland international rugby league footballer who plays as a for the Batley Bulldogs in the Betfred Championship. He previously played for Oldham in League 1 and the Championship. Background Ward was born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. Career In 2016, he was called up to the Ireland squad for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup European Pool B qualifiers. Ward previously played for the Oldham in the Kingstone Press Championship The Championship, known as the Betfred Championship for sponsorship reasons, is a professional rugby league competition. It is the second-tier competition organised by the Rugby Football League, the governing body for the sport in England, a .... References External links Oldham profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Ward, Michael < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronan Michael
Ronan Michael (born 3 July 2000) is an Irish professional rugby league footballer who plays as a for the York Knights in the Championship and Ireland at international level. He previously played for the Huddersfield Giants in the Super League, and spent time on loan from Huddersfield at Whitehaven, York and the Swinton Lions. Background Born in Balbriggan to a Canadian-Irish mother and a Caribbean father, Michael grew up playing rugby union. He began playing rugby league in 2017 for Longhorns RL and was selected to play for in 2018 and 2019. Playing career Huddersfield Giants Michael signed an academy contract with the Huddersfield Giants for the 2019 season. Michael moved to Australia in January 2020 to play for the Canberra Raiders in their Jersey Flegg Cup team (under-20s). He remained contracted to Huddersfield for 2021. He did not play any competition matches for Canberra as the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He returned home in March 2020. Michae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liam Byrne (rugby League)
Liam Byrne (born 18 August 1999) is an Ireland international rugby league footballer who plays as a forward for the Wigan Warriors in the Super League. He has spent time on loan from Wigan at Workington Town in Betfred League 1, and the Leigh Centurions and the Swinton Lions in the Championship. Background Byrne was born in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. He is of Irish heritage. Career In 2019 he made his Super League début for Wigan against Hull F.C. On 28 May 2022, Byrne played for Wigan in their 2022 Challenge Cup Final victory over Huddersfield Huddersfield is a market town in the Kirklees district in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confluence i .... References External linksWigan Warriors profile [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Bienek
Lewis Bienek (born 11 April 1998) is an Ireland international rugby league footballer who plays as a for the London Broncos in the Betfred Super League. He has previously played for the Broncos in the Betfred Championship, spending time on loan from London at Oxford in Kingstone Press League 1. Bienek played for Hull FC in the Super League, and spent time on loan from Hull at the London Broncos, Batley Bulldogs and the Leigh Centurions in the Championship and Doncaster in League 1. He has also played for the Castleford Tigers in the Betfred Super League. Background Bienek was born in Sidcup, London, England. Playing career London Broncos Bienek started his professional career at the London Broncos, with a short loan period at Oxford. Hull FC Bienek has spent the majority of his time at Hull FC out on loan to the London Broncos, Doncaster, Batley & Leigh. Castleford Tigers It was announced on 24 November 2020 that Bienek had joined the Castleford Tigers ( Heritage № 100 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rugby Football League
The Rugby Football League is the governing body for professional rugby league in England, and until 1995 for the whole British Isles. The name Rugby Football League previously also referred to the main league competition run by the organisation. This has since been supplanted by Super League, the Championship and League 1. Based at Red Hall in Leeds, it administers the England national rugby league team, the Challenge Cup, Super League and the Rugby League Championships. The social and junior game is administered in association with the British Amateur Rugby League Association (BARLA). The Rugby Football League is a member of the Rugby League European Federation and as a senior Full Member has a combined veto power over the Council with France. The RFL is part of the Community Board, which also has representatives from BARLA, Combined Services, English Schools Rugby League and Student Rugby League. Clare Balding took over as the president in July 2020, taking over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santry
Santry () is a suburb on the northside of Dublin, Ireland, bordering Coolock, Glasnevin, Kilmore and Ballymun. It straddles the boundary of Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council jurisdictions. The character of the area has changed in the last 100 years, from a district centred on a large estate, and later a small village, to a modern, rather dispersed, mixed-use suburb. Much of the old village is gone and where there were once fields full of crops, and wild woodlands of all sorts, there are now housing estates, an athletics stadium, a shopping complex, industrial parks, and busy roads leading to Dublin Airport which is nearby. Trinity College Library has a depository at Santry which holds three million books. Santry is also the name of a civil parish in the ancient barony of Coolock. History Santry is an anglicisation of the Irish placename ''Seantrabh'' (pronounced Shan-treev) which literally means "old tribe". Although not verified, the book of Leccan refers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morton Stadium
Morton Stadium, or the National Athletics Stadium, is an athletics stadium in Santry Demesne, Santry in Ireland. Often called Santry Stadium, it is the centre for athletics events in Dublin city and the home track of Clonliffe Harriers. It has also been the home ground for several Irish association football clubs including Shamrock Rovers and Dublin City. The modern capacity of the ground is 8,800, with a single 800-seat covered stand. History 1958–1970 Athletics The stadium was opened in 1958 with a cinder track. An inaugural series of meetings was held, and on 6 August 1958, Australian Herb Elliott shattered the world record for the mile run with a time of 3 minutes 54.5 seconds. This was the first race in which five athletes had run a four-minute mile. Cycling Billy Morton, the businessman and administrator who started the track development for running, decided to arrange a cycling event in 1959, inspired by the progress of Ireland's first continental racing star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Brierley
Ryan Brierley (born 12 March 1992) is a Scotland international rugby league footballer who plays as a goal-kicking or for the Salford Red Devils in the Betfred Super League. He previously played for the Leigh Centurions over two separate spells in the Championship and in the Super League. Brierly has also played for the Huddersfield Giants in the top flight and the Toronto Wolfpack in the lower tiers, and spent time on loan from Toronto at the Centurions in the second tier. Background Brierley was born in Preston, Lancashire, England. Club career Early career Brierley played his junior rugby with local club Westhoughton Lions, joining the Castleford Tigers in 2009. Brierley quickly stepped up from the Under 18s side to the Under 20s for the 2011 season and appeared in a first team friendly for Castleford early in 2012, scoring a try against York City Knights. Leigh Centurions After failing to get an opportunity in the first team with Castleford, Brierley joined Leigh Cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Kavanagh
Ben Kavanagh (born 4 March 1988) is a Scotland international rugby league footballer who plays as a for Halifax in the Betfred Championship. Background Kavanagh was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. Career Kavanagh initially joined Widnes on loan from Wigan in 2008. He scored two tries in 21 appearances for the Widnes club, and joined the club permanently at the end of the season, signing a three-year contract. He went on to make 72 consecutive appearances for the club, and was the first player to be given a Super League contract by Widnes when they were granted a licence for the 2012 season. Kavanagh is a Scotland international, and was named in their squad for the 2013 Rugby League World Cup as a replacement for the injured Keith Galloway. On 7 May 2014, Kavanagh committed to playing for Widnes for two more years. In October and November 2014, Kavanagh played in the 2014 European Cup competition. He played in all of Scotland's games and scored a try in their f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liam Finn (rugby League)
Liam Richard Finn (born 2 November 1983) is a former rugby league footballer. An Ireland international representative or , he played for Halifax, Widnes Vikings, Wakefield Trinity (two spells) and Castleford Tigers in the Super League, as well as Dewsbury Rams and Featherstone Rovers in the Championship. He is the current head coach of Dewsbury Rams. Background Finn was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. Club career After brief stints in the Super League with Halifax and the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats as a young player, Finn spent most of his career in the Championship, playing for the Featherstone Rovers and the Dewsbury Rams. He returned to Super League in 2014 with the Castleford Tigers, and played for them in the 2014 Challenge Cup Final defeat by the Leeds Rhinos at Wembley Stadium. In October 2015, Finn re-joined Wakefield Trinity Wildcats on a two-year deal. In September 2021, Finn announced that he would be retiring at the end of the season. Testimon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
