Leigh Leopards are one of the fastest growing and developing clubs in Super League at the moment.
The club went from relegation in 2021, to winning three trophies in 2022 as they secured promotion losing only to Featherstone Rovers in the league and Hull KR in the Challenge Cup.
Interestingly they would renew rivalries in 2023 in the Challenge Cup Final after Leigh rebranded from Leigh Centurions to the Leigh Leopards. They made some major signings finishing fifth in Super League and winning the Challenge Cup Final against Hull KR.
They are set up for a bigger season in 2024 bringing in NRL star Matt Moylan from the Cronulla Sharks after missing out on Leeds Rhinos bound Brodie Croft and NRL halfback Anthony Milford.
Derek Beaumont is sure the club will get a Grade A rating from IMG in 2024 due to their finances and their chances of reaching that score has been boosted by their amazing membership sales.
“The memberships have been really successful. The big headlines on it really I suppose is that we’ve passed three and a half thousand, I think is really really important,” Derek Beaumont said on the club’s website.
“On the Red Card membership, which I think is really important, the one thing that I was questioned about that internally, by Mike, and anybody else, are you not fearful of people downgrading to that? That’s the exact reason for it though, people downgrading to it means really what they’re going to do is not actually stay as a member for whatever reason.
“People’s circumstances change. These times are hard and so people might have bought membership before for all 13 games knowing even though you knew you could only come to 10, so financially you’re better off just buying individually.
“So that’s why you make the membership more than just the games. The packaging you get, the memberships, keeping that status, the role, all the other added benefits, which we’ve added more to. So that was a big reason for that, whereby it could downgrade to that if you kept it as a member.”
The club have now confirmed that they have sold 4,000 memberships for next year.
