Leeds Rhinos Wheelchair
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| Club information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Leeds Rhinos Wheelchair Rugby League Football Club | |
| Nickname(s) | The Rhinos The Loiners | |
| Colours | Blue and Amber | |
| Founded | 2011 | |
| Website | ||
| Current details | ||
| Chairman | Paul Caddick | |
| Competition | Super League | |
| 2024 | 1st (Champions) | |
 Current season | ||
| Uniforms | ||
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| Records | ||
| Championships | 3 (2018, 2021, 2024) | |
| Challenge Cups | 3 (2019, 2021, 2022) | |
| European Club Challenges | 0 | |
The Leeds Rhinos Wheelchair Rugby League Football Club are an English wheelchair rugby league club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The club competes in the RFL Wheelchair Super League, the top tier of the British rugby league system. The club was established in 2011.
Leeds Rhinos formed their wheelchair team in 2011. After holding several trial sessions the club began training to field two sides in the 2012 season.[1][2] In 2015, Leeds reached the semi-finals of the inaugural Wheelchair Challenge Cup.[3] They went back to back league and cup runners-up in 2016[4][5] and 2017.[6][7] The following year in 2018 saw Leeds first silverware winning the Wheelchair Premier League,[8] and a Challenge Cup victory and League Leaders' Shield one year later in 2019.[9][10] In 2021, following the COVID-19 pandemic Leeds Rhinos won the treble; winning Grand Final, League Leaders' Shield, and Challenge Cup marking the first wheelchair treble in the Super League era.[a][12][13] The Rhinos retained the Challenge Cup again in 2022.[14] They also retained the League Leaders' Shield, but lost to Halifax in the Grand Final.[15][16] In the 2023 season, Leeds topped the league again, but lost to Wigan in the Grand Final.[17] In 2024, Leeds retained the League Leaders' Shield and then defeated Halifax in the Grand Final to claim their second Super League title.[18]
Seasons
| Season | League | Challenge Cup |
European Club Challenge | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | P | W | D | L | F | A | Pts | Pos | Play-offs | |||
| 2016 | Premier League | Unknown | 2nd[19] | Runners-up | Runners-up | No Competition | ||||||
| 2017 | Premier League | Unknown | Runners-up | Runners-up | ||||||||
| 2018 | Premier League | Unknown | Champions | Semi-finals | ||||||||
| 2019 | Super League | Unknown | 1st | Runners-up | Champions | |||||||
| 2020 | Super League | Season due to the COVID-19 pandemic | ||||||||||
| 2021 | Super League | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 622 | 206 | 18 | 1st | Champions | Champions | |
| 2022 | Super League | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 816 | 499 | 19 | 1st | Runners-up | Champions | |
| 2023 | Super League | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 710 | 298 | 16 | 1st | Runners-up | Runners-up | Did not qualify |
| 2024 | Super League | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 398 | 300 | 16 | 1st | Champions | Semi-finals | |