Sandal Rugby Union Football Club is an English rugby union team based in Sandal Magna near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. The club runs three senior sides, a veterans team, academy and colts teams and ten junior teams.[1] The first XV play in the Regional 1 North East.
History
Sandal RUFC was formed in 1927 by former Wakefield RFC player Claude Beaumont.[2]
Honours
- North Division 1 champions: 1994–95
- Yorkshire Cup winners (3): 1997, 2001, 2019
- Yorkshire 1 champions: 2007–08[3]
- North 1 (east v west) promotion play-off winners: 2009–10[4]
- National League 3 (north v midlands) promotion play-off winners: 2014–15[5][6]
Notable former players
- Mike Harrison (rugby union)
- Eric Batten
- Charles Chester
- Jimmy Ledgard
- Donald Metcalfe
- Roger Pearman
- Andy Forsyth
References
- ^ Club website home page
- ^ Sandal – ‘The pre-war years’
- ^ “2007-2008 Northern Division”. England Rugby. RFU. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
- ^ “2009-10 North Playoffs”. England Rugby. 1 May 2010. Archived from the original on 10 May 2017. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
- ^ “North Play Offs 2014–2015”. England Rugby. Archived from the original on 16 April 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
- ^ “Hinckley go down fighting”. Hinckley RFC. 25 April 2015.
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