Last Updated: 12/08/21 10:10am
Tottenham’s stadium will host the 2022 rugby league Challenge Cup (Credit: SWNS)
The 2022 rugby league Challenge Cup final will take place at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on May 28 instead of Wembley, the RFL has confirmed.
A statement from the RFL read: “The RFL are delighted to welcome a two-year extension to Betfred’s partnership with the Men’s, Women’s and Wheelchair Challenge Cups – which will include an historic Final at the superb Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in May 2022, before a return to Wembley Stadium in 2023.
“The 2022 Betfred Challenge Cup Final will be played at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday May 28 – the 121st Challenge Cup Final, marking the 125th anniversary of the first in 1897, and the first to be played in May since St Helens beat Wigan in Cardiff in 2004.
“It will be the first Rugby League match at the state of the art, 62,850 capacity stadium – the third largest football stadium in England, which was opened in April 2019 – after the cancellation because of the Covid-19 pandemic of a Test that was scheduled for the 2020 Ashes Series between England and Australia.
“The Betfred Challenge Cup Final will then return to Wembley Stadium in 2023. That will be the 80th Challenge Cup Final at Wembley since the bold decision to take the game’s showpiece occasion to the capital for the first time in 1929.”
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