page_title: Brian Bevan
section_title: Post-playing
hierarchical_section_title: Brian Bevan / Post-playing
caption_attribution_description: English: This statue of former Warrington Rugby League player Brian Bevan is located outside the Haliwell Jones Stadium in Warrington, Cheshire, England.
context_page_description: Brian Eyrl Bevan, also known by the nickname of "Wing Wizard", was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s who became the only player ever to have been inducted into both the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame and British Rugby League Hall of Fame. An Other Nationalities representative wing and the record try scorer in the history of the Rugby League European Championship, Bevan scored a world record 796 tries, mainly for Warrington. In 2008, the centenary year of rugby league in Australia, he was named on the wing of Australia's Team of the Century. Bevan was the only player chosen in the team who had never represented Australia in a test match.
context_section_description: In 1988 Brian Bevan was inducted into the British Rugby League Hall of Fame. The 'wing wizard', as he is commonly referred, died in Southport, England in 1991, aged 67. Thousands turned up for his memorial service a month later which was held on the pitch at Wilderspool which was at the time the home of Warrington.
  Bevan was featured on a British stamp in 1995, one of a series of five to commemorate the centenary of Rugby League. In September, 2005 he was also inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame. He is the only player to have been so doubly honoured. A statue of him was erected in the middle of a roundabout close to Wilderspool Stadium, then moved to the club's new ground, the Halliwell Jones Stadium, in 2004, which also includes a mural showing Bevan's face made from primrose and blue bricks, the traditional Warrington colours. Bevan was also inducted into the Warrington Wolves Hall of Fame.
  In February 2008, Bevan was named in a list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the National Rugby League and the Australian Rugby League to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia. Bevan went on to be named as one of the wingers, along with Ken Irvine, in Australian rugby league's Team of the Century. Announced on 17 April 2008, the team is the panel's majority choice for each of the thirteen starting positions and four interchange players.
  In June 2018, Bevan was named on a shortlist of ten players for potential induction into the NRL's The Immortals, with two to be selected and announced in August of the same year. While the NRL made a surprise announcement that they were making five inductions rather than the planned two on the night, Bevan was not among those raised to Immortal status.
caption: Statue of Brian Bevan at the Halliwell Jones Stadium
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