Year 7 Boys’ inspiresport Champion Schools Final returns to Wembley Stadium

The inspiresport Champion Schools competition will kick into action over the coming weeks and the Rugby Football League can confirm today that the Year 7 Boys’ Final will again be played at Wembley Stadium on Saturday 8 June.

Following a hiatus from the national stadium during covid, the Steven Mullaney memorial game made a long-anticipated return to Wembley last season when Archbishop Sentamu Academy defeated Bedford High School in the traditional cup final curtain raiser.

The Year 7 Boys’ Final is named after Steven Mullaney, the schoolboy who in 1986 thrilled spectators and television viewers alike by scoring a superb solo try as Wakefield schools defeated St Helens at Wembley in the Challenge Cup Final curtain-raiser, but who died in tragic circumstances the following year.  

This season will see schools begin their campaigns during the Spring term with the Year 11 Boys’ and Girls’ Finals confirmed to take place in the impressive new facilities of the DIY Kitchen Stadium in Wakefield on Wednesday 24 April.

Wakefield will also play host to the 2024 Champion Schools Finals Day on Friday 5 July which will feature the Year 7, 8 and 9 Girls alongside the Year 8, 9 and 10 Boys’. The Year 10 Girls’ teams will begin their campaigns at the National Festival on Thursday 9 May with the Final to be confirmed in due course. 

Supported by inspiresport, Champion Schools is the RFL’s flagship schools competition for girls and boys at Years 7 to 11 and is the world’s biggest schools Rugby League tournament. 

The Year 7 Boys Champion Schools Final takes place at Wembley Stadium on Saturday 8 June, alongside the finals of both the Men’s and Women’s Challenge Cup and the AB Sundecks 1895 Cup Final. Tickets are available online now from only £15 Adults and £7.50 Under 16s, with family packages also available starting from just £18.75 for one Adult and two Under 16s.