Following today's announcement about the liquidation of Salford Red Devils we await news of any 'phoenix club' taking their place in next years' competitions. This will be judged on its merits but precedent is that any such club will be considered a continuation of the previous club.

The omission of the NSW-England wheelchair match from our website is deliberate: the game was not played to official rules, so is not considered first-class. The lack of recent internatiionals in the men's and women's game will though be rectified shortly! Watch this space :-)

@salfordreddevils.bsky.social have now used 68 players this season, which is a record for a club in the top flight. It isn't an all-time record for the pro-ranks though, and in fact there are 3 teams who have used more. London Skolars hold the record with 72 in their debut season in 2003.

ICYMI, Jim Sullivan’s world record appearance and goal totals have been increased. stats.rugbyleaguerecords.com/records.php

Congrats @wiganwarriorsrl.bsky.social: wiganwarriors.com/blog/2025/08... As referenced, the 5,000 games includes a match previously omitted in error. It's addition has an important impact extending Jim Sullivan's British RL appearance record (now 929) and goals (now 2,870).

This week marks a major milestone in RL history, as we will see the first team compete in its 5,000th match. Congratulations @wiganwarriorsrl.bsky.social 👏👏👏

There's a lot of talk about IMG performance grading scores rn, but what does the data say? We've cranked the numbers and the results might surprise some people. The background: Scores are based on 3 year averages and are relative to other clubs, meaning it's not immediately...

The 30th anniversary of the first ever women's RL international match is coming up. One of our members, John Moriarty has done more than anyone on recording women's internationals, and is doing a countdown that you can follow here: www.facebook.com/events/10870...

Incredible achievement by Paul Sykes, and great to see this getting the recognition it deserves. Also nice to see we can still talk about proper all-time records, not faux manufactured ‘competition only’ ones 👍

With his score today Herman Ese'ese equalled the record for tries in consecutive matches by a prop in the summer era, tying Tyler Dupree's record of 6 for Oldham in 2021. The winter era is not easy to analyse at this stage, but this is likely to be an all-time record too.

🌍🏆Final Men's RLWC Qualifying Schedule Confirmed 🇫🇷France will face 🇯🇲Jamaica whilst 🇿🇦South Africa will take on 🇨🇰Cook Islands n October 2025! 📰https://bit.ly/42d52Q2 #EuroRugbyLeague

NRL proper start tonight, here's a list of independent rugby league newsletters I subscribe to that you should too. Please sign up & support them as traffic from social media has become unreliable at best. Help keep independent rugby league content thriving 🧵

Incredible growth in the data available on our website right now. Over 1,500 new players added in the past 6 weeks, which is great news for RL stats fans. It's less good news if you have responsibility for double checking the information that's been loaded...

Great to hear that @hullkr.bsky.social have confirmed they will be announcing attendance figures game-by-game again this season. This is a really positive step in being transparent & sharing information, and we hope other clubs take their lead in reversing their earlier decision 👏

A blank weekend for Hall & Charnley means no change in the 300 try club.

Wigan and Leigh have tonight played out the first RL match ever to finish 1-0 in extra time. It's only the 4th game in history to finish 1-0, and only the 2nd in the top flight.

The last 0-0 was Whitehaven-Workington, 28/12/1993. Wigan were in the last top flight 0-0, V. Cas, 26 Jan 1974.

With his hat-trick on his return to @leedsrhinos.bsky.social, Ryan Hall moved to within 5 tries of Mick Sullivan's 19th spot on the all-time try scorers chart. He's now 27 clear of Josh Charnley, who could move into the top 25 in the next few weeks

All set up following today's announcement 🙂

Important milestone: we now have 20,000 players in our men's database. With work now started on the winter era, the rate of new info being added has accelerated significantly. For the most comprehensive stats on UK RL available, check out our website: stats.rugbyleaguerecords.com/playerdirect...

All checks completed on the first first-class games of 2025. Full details of all matches now on our website: stats.rugbyleaguerecords.com/results.php?... (if anyone can help out with the missing 18th players, please shout!)

🇲🇦🆚🇫🇷 Morocco return to international arena to face France! The game will take place on 22nd February in Avignon. 📰https://bit.ly/3PP7vt1 #EuroRugbyLeague

Our head-to-head page gives results for every first-class match of RL ever played. So if you want to see results of previous games against potential Cup opponents, check it out: stats.rugbyleaguerecords.com/head2heads.php

8 clubs have played more than 4,600 first-class matches of RL. All were part of the 1895 breakaway, and bar Warrington have completed 127 seasons (Wire's ground was unavailable for 4 years during World War Two). Here's the list in order of games played.

Congratulations @trevorgi.bsky.social who is our winner of the competition below. Trevor, we'll ping you a DM to sort out your free membership.

2025 will see Paul Sykes of Dewsbury Rams make history the moment he steps onto the field. He will become the first man in history to play 27 seasons of first-class rugby league. His full career record so far is available here: stats.rugbyleaguerecords.com/playersummar... #rugbyleague

Reminder: like & repost the below & give us a follow, and we'll pick one lucky winner to receive free membership of the Record Keepers' Club for the next 12 months.

We're still awaiting official verification of the South American Championship, but provisional info is loaded, and that concludes the 2024 season stats (apart from tidying up some missing 18th players). We're already on with the next major project - more to come on that shortly 🙂

COMPETITION TIME If you're not a member of the Record Keepers' Club already, how does 12 months' free membership sound? Help spread the BSky #rugbyleague love by liking & sharing the post below (not this one!), & giving us a follow, & we'll select one lucky winner at random at the end of the week*

Want your club's fixtures synced to your personal calendar? We now have the 2025 men's & women's Super League, & @therfl.bsky.social Championship & League 1 fixtures loaded to our database. Link & instructions here: stats.rugbyleaguerecords.com/fixturecalen... to sync with Google, Apple & Outlook

A notable day, as it's the last of the 2024 season. But the stats work never stops, and it's going to be a busy weekend here at RKC HQ. Watch you for at least one announcement to come!

We've just added played number 23,000 to the Record Keepers' Club database 🤯 (there's not 23,000 still in there, as some will have since been deleted, but all the same...!)

@dragonscatalans.bsky.social are the next SL club to make it on here and are now part of our Starter Pack of official RL accounts 👇

Heartbreak for Argentina as they let a 26-4 lead slip in the last quarter, losing 28-26 to Brazil. Full details on our website soon.

Top marks @tonycsg.bsky.social for spotting our, ahem, deliberate mistake. It is of course Argentina-Brazil today (Argentina-Chile is tomorrow, as listed in the fixtures - our website's correct, it just a typo in the skeet, so sorry about that!) Thanks Tony for also sharing the link to the game.

There's life in the 2024 season yet! 5 men's Full International matches in the next week: 1st is Argentina-Chile in the South American Championship today, before the last 4 games of the year We'll have the official record of them all on website soon stats.rugbyleaguerecords.com/results.php?...

Confirmation that knock-out format will return for 1895 Cup, with two 'prelim rounds' to get down to 16 teams. Exact details still TBC. @fevnut21.bsky.social #rugbyleague

🇦🇱🆚🇬🇷 The final international of 2024 will see Albania play their second men’s senior fixture, and first at home, when they host Greece on Saturday 7 December at Stadium I Vorës in Tirana! 📰https://bit.ly/3OzeRjv #EuroRugbyLeague

France just hang on for a 32-28 win over @englandrlofficial.bsky.social to take back the Fassolette-Kielty Trophy. Match details on our website: stats.rugbyleaguerecords.com/matchdetails...

France lead 18-12 at the break in a feisty Wheelchair RL international with @englandrlofficial.bsky.social Second half live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3x9... Stats so far here: stats.rugbyleaguerecords.com/matchdetails...

I think @sebastienbechara.bsky.social may be the first rugby league player on here - certainly the first international. A high class trailblazer

And France-Ireland is also now up too... stats.rugbyleaguerecords.com/matchdetails...

Details of @englandrlofficial.bsky.social wheelchair V. Spain are now up on our website: stats.rugbyleaguerecords.com/matchdetails...

Worth re-sharing this for everyone again: below is the Starter Pack we're maintaining of official RL accounts. Pleasing to see we're already up to 260 followers in the first 5 days; at this rate, this will be our primary SoMe platform before the start of next season 🙂🤞 So, please give us a RT 👍

This is an excellent stat from Andy, and has passed the fact check ✅😜👏

We'll have the details up on these games on our website in the next few days (no doubt with @iangolden.bsky.social's help 😀), but why not watch the games live first?!

Official accounts (mostly UK at this stage) bsky.app/starter-pack...

@toulouseolympique.bsky.social now onboard too, adding a new country to the list. Lacking representation from down under at present.

Although a record at the time, France overtook this mammoth margin with their 120-0 win over Serbia & Montenegro in the 2003 Med Cup, for what remains the biggest ever win in a Full International match. Fabrice Estebanez scored a record 10 tries too. stats.rugbyleaguerecords.com/matchdetails...

The 2024 women's international RL season is now concluded. 25 matches played is the most in a year outisde a World Cup year. We'll be releasing the full official IRL record of women's RL on our website soon. Link below 👇