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Halifax Panthers Wheelchair
The Halifax Panthers Wheelchair Rugby League Football Club are an English wheelchair rugby league club based in Halifax, West Yorkshire. The club competes in the RFL Wheelchair Super League, the top tier of the British rugby league system. The club was formed in 2005. HistoryIn July 2005, wheelchair rugby league was introduced to England by a French team who played against a team from Halifax.[1][2][3] The team was known as Calderdale in 2008 when several players were selected for the England world cup squad,[4] but became Halifax RLFC Wheelchair Tag Rugby League in 2009.[5][6] Halifax Panthers wheelchair team was one of the three founding members of the wheelchair rugby league competition in the United Kingdom along with Bury Jigsaw and Mersey Storm, with the former beating the Panthers in the inaugural competition grand final.[7][8] Bury would be the dominant force in the early days of the competition, winning the round robin format national championship in 2012 and 2013.[9][10] 2015 saw Halifax's first silverware winning the league and cup double,[11][12] which they would retain twice over winning the double again in 2016 and 2017.[13] Halifax missed out of the league in 2018 but retained the cup for a fourth year running.[14] Halifax won the first official Super League in 2019.[15] Halifax's next league title came in 2022,[16][17][18] qualifying them for the newly formed European Club Challenge in which they shared the inaugural title with French champions Catalans Dragons after a 32–32 draw.[19] Seasons
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