Valencia Huracanes
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| Full name | Valencia Huracanes | |
| Colours | Blue and Orange | |
| Founded | 2019 | |
| Website | https://valenciahuracanes.com/dir/?lang=en | |
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| Chairman | Dean Buchan | |
| Coach | Adrien Frigola | |
| Competition | Espana Rugby League | |
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The Valencia Huracanes or Los Huracanes are a Spanish rugby league club, based in Valencia. They have applied to join the Rugby Football League's League 1 competition. During 2020 they have exhibition matches scheduled and will compete in the Espana Rugby league with a focus on developing Spanish players.[1] They were announced as one of the teams comprising the inaugural Euro XIII Cup competition in 2022.
The club was first formed in 2019 by Dean Buchan, an English businessman who formed a consortium which submitted a proposal to compete in Rugby Football League competition. Their goal for 2020 is to form a competitive squad to be able to compete in 2021 in League One. They planned to stage a double header with Super League XXIV finalists St. Helens and Salford Red Devils but that fell through and they instead hosted a standalone fixture against Featherstone Rovers, which they lost 102–14.[2][3] A number of other fixtures against English clubs were planned through 2020,[4][5] but never occurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
