THE fixtures are out and diaries are starting to be filled up.
Warrington Wolves players, coaches and supporters alike can now plot their way through the 2025 season following the release of the full schedule of games.
A maximum of 35 weeks of action – 27 Super League regular rounds, five Challenge Cup games and three play-off fixtures – will follow once the campaign gets underway 87 days from now at Huddersfield Giants on Sunday, February 16.
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As always, the schedule can be full of quirks and interesting dates so with that in mind, here are five things that jumped out at us following a closer look at the calendar…
An immediate family reunion
The Wire’s Round One trip to Huddersfield Giants will be a pretty significant day in the Burgess household.
Not only is Warrington head coach Sam going back to the area in which he grew up – always a special occasion – but this time, he looks likely to be going up against someone who probably knows him better than anybody.
The Wire boss’s younger brother Tom has joined Huddersfield following a glittering NRL career with South Sydney, and it’s understood he knocked back an offer from The Wire to do so.
Having spent much of his career playing alongside his elder sibling for both club and country, the prop’s first Super League game since 2012 is set to be against the team coached by big brother Sam.
It is certainly quite the story and will no doubt be the focus of many peoples’ attention in the build-up to the big kick-off.
Getting familiar with the neighbours
In 2024, Warrington did not have a Super League fixture against either of their two near neighbours – Wigan Warriors and St Helens – until June.
However, this year is the exact opposite given they will face both sides twice within the first 10 rounds.
The historic Las Vegas trip to face the Warriors in Round Three (Saturday, March 1) will be followed pretty swiftly by a visit to the Totally Wicked Stadium in Round Five (Friday, March 21).
Saints will then travel to The Halliwell Jones Stadium in Round Nine (Thursday, April 24) for what is currently slated to be their final meeting of the season – barring Challenge Cup draws and play-off ties – before Wire and Wigan face off again at Magic Weekend the following weekend (Sunday, May 4).
With Wigan having given up a home game in order to facilitate the Vegas clash, Warrington could well go a full season without visiting their Brick Community Stadium, again barring Challenge Cup draws and play-off ties.
The Warriors’ visit to the HJ comes in Round 21 (Friday, August 8).
A summer Catalans date!
Great news – you can have your summer holiday and cheer The Wire on at the same time.
Since the early-August visit in 2019 that descended into grim scenes of anarchy, Warrington Wolves have not had a trip to Perpignan during the summer months.
That changes next year, however, with the sole trip to the south of France to face Catalans Dragons scheduled for Saturday, July 12.
That is just before the school summer holidays start, meaning prices are unlikely to be sky-high, and with July being Perpignan’s warmest and driest month of the year, the full summer experience will be on show.
Don’t be surprised to see a big travelling Wire contingent make their way to Perpignan and the surrounding area for this one.
Everybody gets a break
Having made the Challenge Cup Final and the Super League semi-finals via the eliminator round, Warrington Wolves had a game at every possible stage of the 2024 campaign except, of course, the very last week – the Super League Grand Final.
And even when the competition did take a break at the end of June, several of their players were in action for England in a mid-season Test against France.
There is no designated international window for 2025 – penny for Shaun Wane’s thoughts on that one with an Ashes series pencilled in for the end of the year – but every Super League club will still get at least a fortnight off.
Round 20, which falls at the end of July, will be split over two weeks with Warrington among those to have the weekend of July 26-27 blank.
They will then play their Round 20 fixture – a trip to Leigh Leopards – the following week on Friday, August 1.
A summer on the road
Bad news for those who enjoy topping up their tan on the South Stand terrace, as chances to do so will be at a premium.
Indeed, The Wire will go six weeks without a home fixture over the summer – after hosting Hull FC in Round 16 (Friday, June 27), the Halliwell Jones Stadium will not see action again until Wigan Warriors visit in Round 21 (Friday, August 8).
The interim period will include four consecutive away games – at Salford, Catalans, Castleford and Leigh – with their two-week break sandwiched between.
Things do balance themselves out, however – four of the five matches before that period are home fixtures, as are four of the five that follow it.
One Hull of a finish
Back-to-back trips to Hull to finish the regular season – whose idea was that?
Both of Warrington’s scheduled Super League trips to Humberside come one after the other as the final two rounds of the campaign before the play-offs begin – Round 26 sees them visit Hull FC (Saturday, September 13) before a Round 27 trip to Hull KR (date and time TBC).
And if the two teams are side-by-side in the standings going into the final round as they were this year, that Round 27 clash has the makings of a belter.
It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that a play-off trip to either side – particularly the red and white side – could follow as well.
What can be said for certain is that Wire fans will get pretty familiar with the far end of the M62 come the end of September.
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