Toronto Wolfpack take on Siddal in the third round of the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup

Rather than Halifax, Nova Scotia, the trailblazing first professional rugby league team from Canada will make their competitive debut today in Halifax, West Yorkshire, in the sport’s oldest competition.

Toronto Wolfpack tackle the amateurs of Siddal in the third round of the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup, a week before a first appearance in the Kingstone Press League One — the third-tier of British rugby league — against London Skolars, at the New River Stadium, Tottenham.

It is no glamour start this lunchtime for the club that has ambitions of reaching the Betfred Super League inside five years. Siddal are the amateur game’s National Conference champions, whose ground happens to be ten minutes from the Wolfpack’s British training base in Brighouse.

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