Wakefield Trinity

Wakefield Trinity
Club information
Full nameWakefield Trinity Rugby League Football Club
Nickname(s)The Dreadnoughts / Mighty Trin
Short nameTrinity
ColoursRed, white and blue
Founded1873; 151 years ago (1873)
Websitewakefieldtrinity.com
Current details
Ground(s)
CEOMatt Ellis
ChairmanMatt Ellis
CoachDaryl Powell
CaptainMatty Ashurst
CompetitionSuper League
2024 Season1st (Champions / promoted to Super League)
Current season
Uniforms
Home colours
Away colours
Records
Championships2 (1967, 1968)
Challenge Cups5 (1909, 1946, 1960, 1962, 1963)
Other top-tier honours18
Most capped619Harry Wilkinson
Highest points scorer4,488Neil Fox

Wakefield Trinity is a professional rugby league club in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. The club play their home fixtures at 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 and or blue V. Between 1999 and 2016 the club was known as Wakefield Trinity Wildcats.[1]

  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.