2025 Challenge Cup final

2025 (2025) Challenge Cup final
The match took place at Wembley Stadium
Warrington Wolves Hull KR 6 8
1 2 Total WAR 6 0 6 HKR 2 6 8
Date	7 June 2025, 15:00
Stadium	Wembley Stadium
Location	London, United Kingdom
Lance Todd Trophy	Marc Sneyd
God Save The King and Abide with Me	Lizzie Jones
Referee	Liam Moore
Attendance	63,278
Broadcast partners
Broadcasters	BBC One Fox Sports Rogers Fox Sports
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The 2025 Challenge Cup final was the 124th final of the Rugby Football League's Challenge Cup knock-out competition. The final was contested by Warrington Wolves and Hull Kingston Rovers.

The Warrington Wolves returned to the Challenge Cup Final following their defeat to the Wigan Warriors in the 2024 Challenge Cup final. Their most recent Challenge Cup victory was in 2019, when they defeated St Helens to win their ninth title. Warrington qualified for the cup final and placed seventh in the 2025 table.

By comparison, the 2025 Challenge Cup final was Hull Kingston Rovers' ninth final, having lost to the Leigh Leopards in a golden point finish at the 2023 Challenge Cup final. Their only win of their previous nine was a Hull Derby victory in 1979–80. Hull Kingston Rovers, who finished second in the 2024 Super League table and were also runners-up at the 2024 Super League Grand Final, qualified for the cup final and placed first in the 2025 table.

Round	Opposition	Venue	Score
Round 3	Whitehaven R.L.F.C.	Recreation Ground	44–4[1]
Round 4	Widnes Vikings	Halton Stadium	26–16[2]
Quarter-final	St Helens	Halliwell Jones Stadium	20–12[3]
Semi-final	Leigh Leopards	Totally Wicked Stadium	21–14[4]

Round	Opposition	Venue	Score
Round 3	York Knights	York Community Stadium	44–2[5]
Round 4	Oldham R.L.F.C.	Craven Park	40–0[6]
Quarter-final	Hull F.C.	MKM Stadium	32–16[7]
Semi-final	Catalans Dragons	York Community Stadium	36–12[8]

Ten years from her first appearance singing the anthems at the 2015 Challenge Cup Final in tribute to her husband and Keighley Cougars player Danny Jones, Lizzie Jones sang Abide with Me and God Save the King ahead of the match. Pre-match entertainment was also provided by Capital XTRA DJ Kennedy Taylor.^[9]

Wembley hosted the 2025 RFL Champion Schools final, known as the Steven Mullaney Memorial Game, which saw St Helens' Rainford High School rugby league team beat Kingston upon Hull's Sirius Academy West team 40–0, marking a record scoreline for the 50th iteration of the final.^[10]

Wigan Warriors Women and St Helens Women, the latter winning the 2024 final, played in the preceding women's final. Wigan defeated St Helens 42–6 to claim their first Challenge Cup.^[11]

Saturday, 7 June 2025 3:00 pm BST (UTC+01:00)

Warrington Wolves	6–8	Hull KR
Tries: Thewlis 39' Goals: Sneyd 40'	report	Tries: Davies 78' Goals: Lewis 26'(pen), 79'

Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 63,278 Referees: Liam Moore, Jack Smith (video referee) Touch judges: Marcus Griffiths and Richard Thompson

Team details

Warrington Wolves		Position	Hull KR
Name	Number		Number	Name
Matt Dufty  75'	1	FB	18	Jack Broadbent
Josh Thewlis	2	WG	2	Tom Davies
Toby King	3	CE	3	Peta Hiku
Rodrick Tai	4	CE	12	James Batchelor
Arron Lindop	33	WG	5	Joe Burgess
George Williams	6	SO	6	Mikey Lewis
Marc Sneyd	35	SH	7	Tyrone May
Luke Yates  29',  59'	13	PR	8	Sauaso Sue  29',  52',  59'
Sam Powell  33',  48'	14	HK	14	Michael McIlorum  29'
Paul Vaughan  29',  54',  75'	10	PF	10	Jared Waerea-Hargreaves  22',  75'
Adam Holroyd	21	SR	11	Dean Hadley
Ben Currie	11	SR	16	Jai Whitbread  73'
Lachlan Fitzgibbon	12	LF	13	Elliot Minchella
James Harrison  29',  59',  75'	14	IN	9	Jez Litten  29'
Joe Philbin  29',  48'	15	IN	15	Sam Luckley  29',  52',  73'
Jordan Crowther  33',  54'	17	IN	20	Kelepi Tanginoa  22'
Stefan Ratchford  75'	19	IN	21	Jack Brown  59',  75'
Max Wood (not used)	24	CS	24	Eribe Doro (not used)
Sam Burgess		Coach		Willie Peters

The 2025 RFL 1895 Cup final between Featherstone Rovers and York Knights took place following the men's final, seeing York defeat Featherstone in golden point extra time 5–4.^[12] A victory parade was held on a boat travelling along York's River Ouse the following day.^[13]

Also a day after their final, Hull Kingston Rovers held a victory parade from their home stadium at Craven Park to Hull City Hall.^[14]

The final had a peak UK television viewership of 1.2 million.^[15]

• 2025 Women's Challenge Cup final