2022 Castleford Tigers season

The 2022 season was the Castleford Tigers' 97th season in the Rugby Football League and their 15th consecutive season in the top flight of English rugby league. The club competed in the 2022 Super League and the 2022 Challenge Cup.

Castleford Tigers 2022 season
Super League Rank	7th
Play-off result	Did not qualify
Challenge Cup	Quarter-final
2022 record	Wins: 14; draws: 0; losses: 15
Points scored	For: 594; against: 670
Team information
Chairman	Ian Fulton
Head Coach	Lee Radford
Captain	Paul McShane
Stadium	The Jungle (Wheldon Road)
Avg. attendance	7,543
Agg. attendance	98,058
High attendance	10,500
Low attendance	5,672
Top scorers
Tries	Derrell Olpherts (18)
Goals	Gareth O'Brien (49)
Points	Gareth O'Brien (115)
Home colours Away colours
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This was Castleford's first season under Lee Radford as head coach. The team was captained by Paul McShane. They finished the Super League season in 7th place, falling short of play-off qualification in the final round.

Pre-season friendlies

Date and Time	Versus	H/A	Venue	Result	Score	Tries	Goals	Attendance	Report
16 January, 15:00	York City Knights	A	LNER Stadium	W	32–10	Faraimo (2), Vasuitoga, Mamo, Sutcliffe, Morley,	Richardson (4/6)
23 January, 15:00	Doncaster	A	Keepmoat Stadium	W	66–18	Fonua, Olpherts (2), Evalds, Robb, Richardson, Sutcliffe (2), Blair, Qareqare, Collins	Richardson (8/8), Sadler (3/3)

Super League

Main article: Super League XXVII

Results

  Win   Loss

Date and Time	Round	Versus	H/A	Venue	Result	Score	Tries	Goals	Attendance	TV	Report
11 February, 20:00	1	Salford Red Devils	H	Mend-A-Hose Jungle	L	16–26	Griffin, Olpherts (2)	Richardson (2)	10,500	Not televised
17 February, 20:00	2	Warrington Wolves	A	Halliwell Jones Stadium	L	10–34	Olpherts, Trueman	O'Brien	8,468	Sky Sports
25 February, 20:00	3	Hull KR	A	Hull College Community Stadium	L	10–26	Turner, Faraimo	O'Brien	7,119	Sky Sports
6 March 2022, 15:30	4	Hull FC	H	Mend-A-Hose Jungle	W	33–26	Smith, Eden (3), Blair, O'Brien	O'Brien (4), O'Brien 1 DG	10,072	Not televised
12 March 2022, 15:15	5	Huddersfield Giants	A	John Smiths Stadium	L	24–36	Trueman (2), Fonua, Eden	O'Brien (4)	5,717	Sky Sports
17 March 2022, 20:00	6	Wigan Warriors	A	DW Stadium	L	22–32	Eden, Griffin, Trueman, Mamo	O'Brien (3)	10,042	Sky Sports
1 April 2022, 20:00	7	Toulouse Olympique	H	Mend-A-Hose Jungle	W	32–6	Eden, Evalds, Milner, Mamo, Watts	O'Brien (6)	7,067	Not televised
14 April 2022, 19:45	8	Wakefield Trinity	A	The Mobile Rocket Stadium	W	34-4	Fonua, Matagi, McShane, Edwards, Eden	O'Brien (7)	5,557	Not televised
18 April 2022, 15:00	9	Leeds Rhinos	H	Mend-A-Hose Jungle	W	16–14	Clare, Olpherts, Watts	O'Brien (2)	9,372	Sky Sports
22 April 2022, 20:00	10	St Helens	H	Mend-A-Hose Jungle	W	30–10	Qareqare, Olpherts (2), Trueman, Westerman, Fonua	McShane (3)	7,649	Sky Sports
29 April 2022, 19:30	11	Catalans Dragons	A	Stade Gilbert Brutus	L	12–44	O'Brien, Qareqare	O'Brien (2)	6,487	Not televised
15 May 2022, 15:30	12	Hull KR	H	Mend-A-Hose Jungle	W	32–0	Griffin, Edwards, Mamo (2), Qareqare (2)	O'Brien (4)	8,175	Not televised
20 May 2022, 20:00	13	Salford Red Devils	A	AJ Bell Stadium	L	14–30	Hampshire, Qareqare (2)	O'Brien	5,355	Sky Sports
4 June 2022, 14:00	14	Wigan Warriors	H	Mend-A-Hose Jungle	L	12–32	Eden, Edwards	O'Brien (2)	6,497	Channel 4
12 June 2022, 14:30	15	Toulouse Olympique	A	Stade Ernest Wallon	W	20–14	Matagi, Griffin, Fonua	Richardson (4)	3,326	Not televised
26 June 2022, 15:30	16	Catalans Dragons	H	Mend-A-Hose Jungle	W	17–16[a]	Blair, Hampshire, Olpherts	Richardson (2), Richardson 1 DG	6,510	Not televised
1 July 2022, 20:00	17	Huddersfield Giants	H	Mend-A-Hose Jungle	W	26–18	Olpherts (2), Trueman, Mamo	Richardson (5)	5,672	Sky Sports
9 July 2022, 19:00	18	Leeds Rhinos	N	St James' Park	L	20–34	Mamo, Faraimo (2), Fonua	Richardson (2)	36,821	Sky Sports
16 July 2022, 15:00	19	Warrington Wolves	H	Mend-A-Hose Jungle	W	35–22	Olpherts (2), Richardson, Evalds, Qareqare, Sutcliffe	Richardson (5), Richardson 1DG	6,279	Sky Sports
22 July 2022, 20:00	20	Hull FC	A	KCOM Stadium	W	46–18	Olpherts (4), Faraimo (2), Matagi, Sutcliffe	Richardson (7)	9,550	Sky Sports
29 July 2022, 20:00	21	Wakefield Trinity	H	Mend-A-Hose Jungle	L	6–32	Richardson	Richardson	6,796	Sky Sports
7 August 2022, 13:00	22	St Helens	A	Totally Wicked Stadium	L	12–20	Faraimo (3)		10,144	Channel 4
12 August 2022, 20:00	23	Catalans Dragons	H	Mend-A-Hose Jungle	W	18–8	O'Brien, Eden	O'Brien (5)	6,147	Not televised
18 August 2022, 20:00	24	Huddersfield Giants	A	John Smiths Stadium	L	10–36	Eden, Mellor	Richardson	4,168	Sky Sports
25 August 2022, 20:00	25	Warrington Wolves	A	Halliwell Jones Stadium	W	19–18	Olpherts (2), Mamo	Richardson (3) Richardson 1 DG	8,104	Not televised
29 August 2022, 15:30	26	Salford Red Devils	H	Mend-A-Hose Jungle	L	10–50	Olpherts, Mamo	Richardson	7,322	Sky Sports
3 September 2022, 19:00	27	Leeds Rhinos	A	Headingley	L	6–14	Mamo	McShane (2)	15,418	Sky Sports

1. After golden-point extra time

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	St Helens (C, L)	27	21	0	6	674	374	+300	42	Advance to Semi-finals
2	Wigan Warriors	27	19	0	8	818	483	+335	38
3	Huddersfield Giants	27	17	1	9	613	497	+116	35	Advance to Elimination Finals
4	Catalans Dragons	27	16	0	11	539	513	+26	32
5	Leeds Rhinos	27	14	1	12	577	528	+49	29
6	Salford Red Devils	27	14	0	13	700	602	+98	28
7	Castleford Tigers	27	13	0	14	544	620	−76	26
8	Hull Kingston Rovers	27	12	0	15	498	608	−110	24
9	Hull FC	27	11	0	16	508	675	−167	22
10	Wakefield Trinity	27	10	0	17	497	648	−151	20
11	Warrington Wolves	27	9	0	18	568	664	−96	18
12	Toulouse Olympique (R)	27	5	0	22	421	745	−324	10	Relegated to the Championship

Source:
(C) Champions; (L) League Leaders' Shield Winners; (R) Relegated

Challenge Cup

Main article: 2022 Challenge Cup

Results

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Date and Time	Round	Versus	H/A	Venue	Result	Score	Tries	Goals	Attendance	TV	Report
26 March 2022, 16:30	6	Leeds Rhinos	A	Headingley	W	40–16	Trueman, Mamo, O'Brien, Turner, Lawler, Eden (2)	O'Brien (6)	5,112	BBC
8 April 2022, 19:45	QF	Hull KR	A	Sewell Group Craven Park	L	10–34	Eden (2)	O'Brien	4,887

Transfers and loans

Gains

Player	Club	Contract	Date
Joe Westerman	Wakefield Trinity	2 Years	June 2021[1]
Jake Mamo	Warrington Wolves	3 Years	July 2021[2]
Bureta Faraimo	Hull F.C.	2 Years	August 2021[3]
Alex Sutcliffe	Leeds Rhinos	2 Years	September 2021[4]
Kenny Edwards	Huddersfield Giants	1 Year Loan	September 2021[5]
Suaia Matagi		2 Years	October 2021[6]
George Lawler	Hull KR	2 Years	October 2021[7]
Callum McLelland	Leeds Rhinos	2 Years	October 2021[8]
Mahe Fonua	Hull FC	1 Year	October 2021[9]

Losses

Player	Club	Contract	Date
Peter Mata’utia	Warrington Wolves	2 Years	June 2021[10]
Oliver Holmes		3 Years
Grant Millington	Retired	—	August 2021[11]
Jesse Sene-Lefao	Released	September 2021[12]
Alex Foster	Released	September 2021[13]
Michael Shenton	Retired	September 2021[14]
Lewis Bienek	London Broncos	2 Years	September 2021[15]

First-team squad

2022 Castleford Tigers Squad

First team squad								Coaching staff
1 Niall Evalds – FB 2 Derrell Olpherts – WG 3 Jordan Turner – CE 4 Jake Mamo – CE, FB 5 Bureta Faraimo – WG 6 Jake Trueman – SO, SH 7 Danny Richardson (gk) – SH 8 Liam Watts (vc) – PR 9 Paul McShane (c) – HK, SO 10 George Lawler – PR, SR, HK 11 Kenny Edwards – SR, LF 12 Adam Milner – SR, LF, HK 13 Joe Westerman – LF, PR		14 Nathan Massey – PR, LF 15 George Griffin – PR 16 Callum McLelland – SO, SH 17 Mahe Fonua – CE 18 Jacques O'Neill – HK, LF 19 Tyla Hepi – PR 20 James Clare – WG 21 Alex Sutcliffe – SR, CE 22 Daniel Smith – PR 23 Greg Eden – WG, FB, SO 24 Cheyse Blair – SR, CE 25 Suaia Matagi – PR 26 Ryan Hampshire – FB, SO		27 Lewis Peachey – SR 28 Brad Martin – PR, SR 29 Sam Hall – PR 30 Sosaia Feki – WG 31 Gareth O'Brien (gk) – SH, FB 32 Cain Robb – HK 33 Jason Qareqare – WG 34 Jack Sadler – SO 35 Nathan Carter – SR 36 Mackenzie Scurr – WG 37 Alex Mellor – SR 38 Kieran Hudson – PR				Head coach Lee Radford Assistant coach Andy Last Legend: (c) Captain(s) (vc) Vice-captain(s) (gk) Goal kicker(s)

References

1. "Westerman returns to Castleford". castlefordtigers.com. 22 June 2021.
2. "Mamo Joins Castleford on 3 year deal". BBC Sport. 1 July 2021.
3. "Faraimo Joins Castleford on 2 year deal". castlefordtigers.com. 5 August 2021.
4. "Tigers sign Sutcliffe". castlefordtigers.com. 21 September 2021.
5. "Castleford sign Kenny Edwards on loan". bbc sport. 19 September 2021.
6. "Castleford sign Suaia Matagi on 2 year deal". castlefordtigers.com. 10 October 2021.
7. "Lawler joins Castleford". castlefordtigers.com. 5 October 2021.
8. "McLelland joins Castleford". castlefordtigers.com. 10 October 2021.
9. "Fonua joins Castleford". castlefordtigers.com. 13 October 2021.
10. "Warrington confirm capture of Mata'utia and Holmes". loverugbyleague.com. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
11. "Millington announces retirement". loverugbyleague.com. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
12. "Sene-Lefao leaves Castleford". castlefordtigers.com. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
13. "Foster leaves Castleford". castlefordtigers.com. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
14. "Shenton to join Hull FC's backroom staff". loverugbyleague.com. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
15. "Bienek joins London Broncos". loverugbyleague.com. Retrieved 15 September 2021.