Challenge Cup Final 2024 Announced : Sat Aug 12, 2023 8:13 am  

Challenge Cup Final 2024 Announced Wembley Stadium will stage another feast of Rugby League including the Betfred Women's and Men's Challenge Cup Finals on Saturday June 8 in 2024 – reverting to an earlier slot in a restructured calendar. Tickets will go on sale next week for an event which will also include the fifth AB Sundecks 1895 Cup Final and the inspiresport Champion Schools. The Final of Rugby League's oldest knockout competition returns to Wembley today after a year at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium – with history to be made as the Women's Challenge Cup Final between Leeds Rhinos and St Helens will be played at the national stadium for the first time before the Men's Final between Hull KR and Leigh Leopards. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Challenge Cup Final 2024 Announced Wembley Stadium will stage another feast of Rugby League including the Betfred Women's and Men's Challenge Cup Finals on Saturday June 8 in 2024 – reverting to an earlier slot in a restructured calendar. Tickets will go on sale next week for an event which will also include the fifth AB Sundecks 1895 Cup Final and the inspiresport Champion Schools. The Final of Rugby League's oldest knockout competition returns to Wembley today after a year at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium – with history to be made as the Women's Challenge Cup Final between Leeds Rhinos and St Helens will be played at the national stadium for the first time before the Men's Final between Hull KR and Leigh Leopards. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Re: Challenge Cup Final 2024 Announced : Sat Aug 12, 2023 1:28 pm  

Revolutionary change. This will save the game.

“It’s fits with IMGs vision blah blah…”. How the F does having it in June make a difference to anything, in real terms.

They’ll move it again in a few years. So sick of random changes made for the sake of change, packaged as something to do with a vague notion of a future vision.

“Well we need to change something, when hasn’t the final been held so far? Well we’ve not held it in June yet. Ok, bang it there”.

Re: Challenge Cup Final 2024 Announced : Sat Aug 12, 2023 4:22 pm  

Need to look at whether adding the Women's game to the lineup is for the best, yes it's great for the ladies to play at Wembley but the ground was empty and personally I'd prefer the 1895 cup as the curtain raiser

Re: Challenge Cup Final 2024 Announced : Sun Aug 13, 2023 6:14 pm  

Also they can fiddle with the date of the final all they want but until the marketing to 'neutral' fans improves Wembley wont get any busier.

Unfortunately even the biggest teams will only sell 25k tickets, so 50k total. So something needs to be done to shift the other 40k tickets. Id like to see more from IMG on what they are going to do on the Marketing front, a new structure for RL doesnt directly put more bums on seats.

On a positive note a tight final going to golden point should please those that went and the BBC.

Re: Challenge Cup Final 2024 Announced : Sun Aug 13, 2023 7:58 pm  

Need to do something, it's gone from 84k in 2007 to 58k yesterday, hopefully having it earlier in the year will encourage people to go as it avoids the summer holiday season. Need to try get neutrals going again though as we can't rely on just filling Wembley with two sets of fans alone.

Re: Challenge Cup Final 2024 Announced : Sun Aug 13, 2023 10:20 pm  

Steve0 wrote:

Need to do something, it's gone from 84k in 2007 to 58k yesterday, hopefully having it earlier in the year will encourage people to go as it avoids the summer holiday season. Need to try get neutrals going again though as we can't rely on just filling Wembley with two sets of fans alone.

They did used to count approx 10k Club Wembley tickets who mostly didnt attend, but even with that 16k have gone missing and the 2007 final featured Catalans who of course didnt take many.

Re: Challenge Cup Final 2024 Announced : Mon Aug 14, 2023 10:49 am  

so with Magic Weekend around the same time, give a take a week or two, can't see how it will improve attendances, more than likely make them worse for both if magic isn't moved from the end of may/beginning of June!

Re: Challenge Cup Final 2024 Announced : Mon Aug 14, 2023 11:19 am  

Unless they're moving the date of magic to later in the year?

Re: Challenge Cup Final 2024 Announced : Mon Aug 14, 2023 11:40 am  

Steve0 wrote:

Unless they're moving the date of magic to later in the year?

where though? cant see teams like Newcastle Utd wanting a weekend of rugby during the football season on their pitch, (even if it causes less damage than football)

Re: Challenge Cup Final 2024 Announced : Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:31 pm  

number 6 wrote:

where though? cant see teams like Newcastle Utd wanting a weekend of rugby during the football season on their pitch, (even if it causes less damage than football)

This will be a challenge, football teams will either want it the end of May after the season, or late July just before it. The Etihad makes a fortune from concerts in June.

Apart from that you are looking at Cardiff which I know is popular with Lancashire fans but its a trek from Hull.