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Wheelchair rugby league tour
| 2025 England wheelchair rugby league tour | |
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| Date | 19 October 2025[1] – 2 November 2025 |
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| Previous tour | 2019 |
| Next tour | – |
The 2025 England wheelchair rugby league tour of Australia will be a wheelchair rugby league tour of Australia by the England national wheelchair rugby league team. The tour was announced in December 2024 by the International Rugby League, and will see four matches played including a wheelchair rugby league Ashes series contested by the two nations.[2][3]
England are the defending champions after winning the inaugural Wheelchair Ashes 2–0 in 2019, in addition to beating the North Queensland, Queensland, and New South Wales representative teams, going the whole tour undefeated.[4]
England squad selection process
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Wheelchair festival and intra-squad tri-series
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In April 2025, the RFL hosted a wheelchair rugby league festival in Nottingham to scout potential new players for the tour.[5] The following month, 24 players made up of invitees from the festival and England regulars contested an intra-squad tri-series tournament in York.[6]
National Performance Squad selection and Future of England game
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Following the tri-series tournament, a national performance squad and a “Future of England” squad were selected for training camps on 28 June at St George’s Park and on 15 June at the University of York Sport’s Centre respectively.[7][8]
National Performance Squad:[8]
Future of England Squad:[8][9]
The Future of England camp involved an intra-squad friendly and saw Billington, Boardman, Domingos, Edwards, Haynes, Holmes, Norfolk, O’Neill, and Owen were advanced to the national performance squad for a second training session and a behind closed doors trial in York on 13 July.[10][11][12]
The touring squad was announced on 7 August and will have a final training session on 31 August.[1]
Australia coaching changes
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Ahead of the tour, Queensland head coach Cameron Sullivan joined Brett Clark’s coaching staff as an assistant coach.[13]
The England squad for the tour was announced on 7 August.[1][14] Captaincy was announced on 31 August.[15]
The Australia squad was named on 17 September. Daniel Anstey is the only player who was not in the Australian squad at the 2021 Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup.[16]
Fixtures for the tour were confirmed on 18 May 2025.[17][18][19][20]
- ^ Tom Halliwell, a regular member of the England squad, was injured for the tri-series tournament
