CHALLENGE CUP 3RD ROUND DRAW DETAILS

The Betfred Challenge Cup Third Round draw will take place tonight from 6:30pm, with Super League clubs set to enter the competition.

The Vikings travel to Rochdale Hornets in the Second Round on Sunday, 26th January, and will be hoping to set up a potential Super League clash with a victory.

The draw will be shown live on BBC Sport.

The Challenge Cup has a new format which will see the 12 Betfred Super League clubs enter at an earlier stage, in a seeded draw, which guarantees that each of them will be drawn away to one of the 20 Second Round winners.

As a result of the postponement of 14 of the 17 First Round ties scheduled for this past weekend, there will be 31 community teams with an involvement in Tonight’s Third Round draw, in addition to 23 from Betfred Championship and League One.

The 20 Second Round ties have each been given a number in the order they were drawn.

The draw will begin with one ball being drawn to face each of the 12 Betfred Super League clubs – starting with Wakefield Trinity and concluding with Wigan Warriors, the Betfred Super League and Challenge Cup holders.

The remaining eight balls will then be drawn in four more ties to complete the line-up of 16 ties for the Third Round, to be played on the weekend of February 7th-9th.

 

Betfred Challenge Cup Third Round draw – Ball numbers

· 1 – GB Police, York Acorn, London Chargers or Oulton Raiders

· 2 – Halifax Panthers, Thatto Heath or Orrell St James

· 3 – Dewsbury Moor, Haresfinch or Dewsbury Rams

· 4 – Barrow Raiders, Crosfields or Maryport

· 5 – Mirfield, Royal Navy or Workington Town

· 6 – London Broncos or Goole Vikings

· 7 – Lock Lane, Doncaster Toll Bar or Hunslet RLFC

· 8 – Waterhead Warriors, Leigh Miners or Featherstone Rovers

· 9 – Wests Warriors, British Army or RAF

· 10 – Whitehaven or Swinton Lions

· 11 – Stanley Rangers, Hunslet ARLFC, West Hull or Edinburgh Eagles

· 12 – Rochdale Hornets or Widnes Vikings

· 13 – Oldham, Rochdale Mayfield or Telford Raiders

· 14 – Keighley Cougars or York Knights

· 15 – Sheffield Eagles, West Bowling or Cutsyke Raiders

· 16 – Bradford Bulls or Doncaster

· 17 – Blackbrook, Longhorns or Ince Rose Bridge

· 18 – Midlands Hurricanes or Siddal

· 19 – Cornwall or North Wales Crusaders

· 20 – Newcastle Thunder or Batley Bulldogs