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| Club information | |||
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| Full name | Wakefield Trinity Rugby League Football Club | ||
| Nickname(s) | The Dreadnoughts / Mighty Trin | ||
| Short name | Trinity | ||
| Colours | Red, white and blue | ||
| Founded | 1873 | ||
| Website | wakefieldtrinity.com | ||
| Current details | |||
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| CEO | Matt Ellis | ||
| Chairman | Matt Ellis | ||
| Coach | Daryl Powell | ||
| Captain | Matty Ashurst | ||
| Competition | Super League | ||
| 2024 Season | 1st (Champions / promoted to Super League) | ||
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| Records | |||
| Championships | 2 (1967, 1968) | ||
| Challenge Cups | 5 (1909, 1946, 1960, 1962, 1963) | ||
| Other top-tier honours | 18 | ||
| Most capped | 619 – Harry Wilkinson | ||
| Highest points scorer | 4,488 – Neil Fox | ||
Wakefield Trinity is a professional rugby league club in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. The club play their home fixtures at the DIY Kitchen Stadium, Belle Vue and currently compete in the Super League, the top tier of the British rugby league system.
The club was one of the original twenty-two clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895. They have won the League Championship twice and Challenge Cup five times.
Wakefield have local rivalries with Castleford Tigers and Featherstone Rovers as well as Leeds Rhinos. Their traditional kit colours are white with a red or blue V. Between 1999 and 2016 the club was known as Wakefield Trinity Wildcats.[1]
- ^ Smith, Peter (24 May 2016). "Chairman confirms Wildcats name to be dropped". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
The Wildcats suffix, introduced when Wakefield Trinity joined Super League in 1999, will be dropped from the end of this season, chairman Michael Carter has confirmed.