Leeds Rhinos reveal heritage jersey as squad number update provided and decision made on pre-season games
Leeds Rhinos have unveiled their third kit for the 2025 season and provided an update on squad numbers and pre-season matches.
The heritage design, produced by equipment kit supplier OXEN, is based on the strip Rhinos wore for their most recent World Club Challenge appearance, when they lost 38-4 at Melbourne Storm in 2018. It features an amber jersey with a blue band, plus blue shorts and amber socks with a blue band.
Rhinos have yet to reveal their squad numbers for 2025, but sporting director Ian Blease said an announcement is likely to be made within the next two weeks. Blease also confirmed Rhinos will play only two pre-season games ahead of the new campaign, both at AMT Headingley.
They face Wakefield Trinity in the annual Wetherby Whaler Festive Challenge on Boxing Day and Wigan Warriors for Ash Handley’s testimonial on Sunday, January 26. As previously predicted by the Yorkshire Evening Post, Blease said the traditional warm-up games against Bradford Bulls and Hunslet RLFC will not take place because of this season’s early start to the Betfred Challenge Cup.
Championship clubs, including Bulls and Hunslet, begin their Cup campaign on the weekend of January 25/26 with top-flight sides entering the competition a fortnight later, just a week before Super League begins.