Cougars 2022 Fixture List Revealed

KEIGHLEY Cougars can today reveal our full fixture list ahead of the 2022 Betfred League 1 season.

As revealed yesterday, we begin our league season on Sunday 27^th March as we head across the Pennines to face relegated Oldham RLFC in Round One.

However, the first competitive game of the fixture will take place on the weekend of the 29/30 January when the 11 Betfred League 1 clubs join 13 community clubs in the Second Round of the 2022 Betfred Challenge Cup.

The weekend after the Oldham game sees us open our home campaign with a blockbuster tie against Doncaster RL with the sides meeting for the first time since the Dons dramatic victory over the Cougars last month in the Final Eliminator.

Our first bye week follows the visit of Doncaster, the other coming in late July, with the Cougars returning to action in Round Four with the short journey to Hunslet RL on Good Friday for the traditional Easter weekend derby.

And our opening month of the season is completed the following week as the other side relegated from the Championship, Swinton Lions, visit Cougar Park.

The return fixture against the Lions will mark our first ever visit to their current home of Heywood Road, with that game taking place as a part of Round Eighteen in early August.

Cornwall are the third and final new faces to the division for 2022, our historic first ever meeting to take place on Sunday 12^th June in Round Eleven as the Cougars make the long journey south to Penryn.

The black and gold’s make the return journey north to Cougar Park the following month, with both fixtures against the Cornish outfit 1pm kick-offs.

The journey to the southwest comes a week after Rhys Lovegrove’s side visit Colwyn Bay to renew rivalries with the North Wales Crusaders after the three pulsating meetings between the two clubs in 2021.

And the re-branded Midlands Hurricanes new home of Portway will also provide a new venue in which to follow Keighley with our first trip to Birmingham coming in July after a Hurricane blows through Cougar Park in late May.

The Cougars run-in begins following our second bye weekend, and after the trip to face Swinton in Sale a tough run of fixtures concludes our regular season.

Hunslet visit Cougar Park before a trip to the Keepmoat Stadium to face Doncaster.

The regular season then concludes with North Wales Crusaders the final visitors to Cougar Park on August bank holiday weekend with the following weekend brining the curtain down with a trip across the hill to face the Rochdale Hornets at Spotland.

Please note that all fixtures are subject to change.

KEIGHLEY COUGARS 2022 FIXTURES:

Challenge Cup Round 2 | OPPONENT TBC
Sunday 30^th January | Venue: TBC | Kick Off: TBC

Round 1 | OLDHAM RLFC
Sunday 27^th March | Venue: TBC | Kick Off: 3pm

Round 2 | DONCASTER RL
Sunday 3^rd April | Venue: Cougar Park | Kick Off: 3pm

Round 3 | BYE WEEKEND

Round 4 | HUNSLET RL
Friday 15^th April | Venue: South Leeds Stadium | Kick Off: 7:30pm

Round 5 | SWINTON LIONS
Sunday 24^th April | Venue: Cougar Park | Kick Off: 3pm

Round 6 | LONDON SKOLARS
Sunday 1^st May | Venue: Cougar Park | Kick Off: 3pm

Round 7 | WEST WALES RAIDERS
Saturday 7^th May | Venue: Stebonheath Park | Kick Off: 3pm

Round 8 | ROCHDALE HORNETS
Sunday 15^th May | Venue: Cougar Park | Kick Off: 3pm

Round 9 | MIDLANDS HURRICANES
Sunday 22^nd May | Venue: Cougar Park | Kick Off: 3pm

Round 10 | NORTH WALES CRUSADERS
Saturday 4^th June | Venue: Stadiwm ZipWorld | Kick Off: 5:30pm

Round 11 | CORNWALL RLFC
Sunday 12^th June | Venue: The Memorial Ground | Kick Off: 1pm

Round 12 | OLDHAM RLFC
Sunday 26^th June | Venue: Cougar Park | Kick Off: 3pm

Round 13 | WEST WALES RAIDERS
Sunday 3^rd July | Venue: Cougar Park | Kick Off: 3pm

Round 14 | LONDON SKOLARS
Saturday 9^th July | Venue: New River Stadium | Kick Off: 3pm

Round 15 | CORNWALL RLFC
Sunday 17^th July | Venue: Cougar Park | Kick Off: 1pm

Round 16 | MIDLANDS HURRICANES
Sunday 24^th July | Venue: Portway | Kick Off: 3pm

Round 17 | BYE WEEKEND

Round 18 | SWINTON LIONS
Sunday 7^th August | Venue: Heywood Road | Kick Off: 3pm

Round 19 | HUNSLET RL
Sunday 14^th August | Venue: Cougar Park | Kick Off: 3pm

Round 20 | DONCASTER RL
Sunday 21^st August | Venue: Keepmoat Stadium | Kick Off: 3pm

Round 21 | NORTH WALES CRUSADERS
Sunday 28^th August | Venue: Cougar Park | Kick Off: 3pm

Round 22 | ROCHDALE HORNETS
Sunday 4^th September | Venue: Crown Oil Arena | Kick Off: 3pm

Fixtures Subject To Change