WALES Rugby League have confirmed they will take on Keighley Cougars in a fund-raising match for the family of Danny Jones.

The game will take place at Cougar Park on Sunday, October 25 (kick-off 3pm), with funds raised going to the children of Keighley and Wales stand-off Jones, who died of a rare heart condition after collapsing during a League One match at London Skolars.

Cougars have tweeted today that the match has been officially approved.

It will be the first time in 33 years that Wales have taken on a club side, the last being St Helens at Stebonheath Park in Llanelli on June 5 1982 in the Roy Mathias Testimonial in a game that finished 18-18.

Wales head coach John Kear says there has been a "tremendous response" to the match and that his players have all offered to play without pay.

He said: "The players have all put their hands up and agreed to play for nothing.

"Danny was very popular in the Welsh camp. I tried to get him to play in last year's European Championship but he turned it down because his wife Liz was heavily pregnant and I think that demonstrates what a family man he was.

"Both Keighley and Wales have agreed a date and a venue.

"The match fits in with our schedule but, regardless of that, we would have wanted to play it because we just want to do the best we can for his family."

Jones won the last of his 12 Welsh caps in their final match of the 2013 World Cup.

The match will cap a five-month fund-raising campaign in which Cougars chairman Gary Fawcett wants to raise £1million for the Danny Jones benevolent fund.

Money raised so far is in excess of £132,000, which at the request of Jones' widow Lizzie will go into a trust fund for their five-month-old twins.