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2007 Challenge Cup
The 2007 Carnegie Challenge Cup began in February 2007. The Challenge Cup is the most prestigious knock-out competition in the world of rugby league, featuring teams from across Europe including England, Scotland, Wales, France and Russia. In 2007 the preliminary round was dropped, reducing the number of amateur clubs involved. Teams from the National League were given byes to round three, and teams from the Super League entered in round four. Teams from outside the UK were introduced at various stages. St. Helens successfully defended their title after beating Catalans Dragons (who were the first French club ever to take part in the competition's final) 30 – 8 in the final at the new Wembley Stadium on 26 August. Round 1 :''(week ending 4 February)'' Teams came from the National Conference League, Rugby League Conference, Student Rugby League, Pennine League, North West Counties, Yorkshire League, CARLA, Hull & District League and the Armed Forces. This round consisted ...
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BBC Sport
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC BBC Television, television, BBC Radio, radio and BBC Online, online. The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as ''Match of the Day'', ''Test Match Special'', ''Ski Sunday'' and ''Today at Wimbledon''. Results, analysis and coverage is also added to the #BBC Sport Online, BBC Sport website and through the BBC Red Button interactive television service. History The BBC has broadcast sport for several decades under individual programme names and coverage titles. ''Grandstand (TV programme), Grandstand'' was one of the more notable sport programmes, broadcasting sport for almost 50 years. The BBC first began to brand sport coverage as 'BBC Sport' in 1988 for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, by introducing the programme with a short animation of a globe circumnavigated by four c ...
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Student Rugby League
The University and College Rugby League (UCRL), formerly known as ''the Student Rugby League'', is the organisation which administrates university and college rugby league football in the United Kingdom, on behalf of the Rugby Football League and British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS). Rugby league in universities has been an important vehicle for expansion of the game as players from outside the heartlands often first began to play at university level. Many continue to play after leaving university and this has led to the creation of teams in non-traditional areas such as London Skolars and the Gloucestershire All Golds, University of Gloucestershire All Golds. Yorkshire Universities and Colleges played against Lancashire at Halifax R.L.F.C., Halifax's then ground The Shay, Halifax, West Yorkshire, Halifax in 1976. The Yorkshire side was selected by Fred Lindop, coach and professional referee and included a number of players from Leeds City College, Airedale & Wharfedale C ...
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Royal Navy Rugby League
The Royal Navy Rugby League team is a British rugby league team representing the Royal Navy. They play their home matches at the United Services Recreation Ground in Portsmouth, Hampshire. They were founded in 1997 following an increase in support of rugby league by members of the Royal Navy. History Historically, rugby league had been banned in the British Armed forces since 1895 due to rugby union's Rugby Football Union's ban on anyone who played rugby league from playing rugby union. The ban was temporarily relaxed during the First World War to allow players from both codes to play together. Sailors deployed at HMNB Devonport founded a rugby league team in 1917 and they toured the country during the remainder of the war, making three tours of rugby league's northern heartlands. Most of the players involved never returned to rugby union once the ban was reinstated after the war. Despite the temporary wartime relaxation, rugby league remained banned in the Royal Navy until 199 ...
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Blackbrook A
Blackbrook may refer to several places in the United Kingdom: * Blackbrook, Cheshire, England * Blackbrook, Derbyshire, England * Blackbrook, London, in the London Borough of Bromley, near Southborough * Blackbrook, St Helens Blackbrook is a locality and an electoral ward in St Helens, Merseyside. Historic counties of England, Historically in Lancashire, the area is so called after the brook of the same name. The population of the ward taken at the 2011 census was 10, ..., England * Blackbrook, Staffordshire, England * Blackbrook, Surrey, England See also * Blackbrook Reservoir, Leicestershire, England * Blackbrook River, Devon, England {{disambig ...
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Eccles & Salford
Eccles may refer to: Places England * Eccles, Greater Manchester, a town in North West England ** Eccles (UK Parliament constituency), an electoral division represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom ** Eccles (ward), an electoral ward * Eccles, Kent, England * Eccles on Sea, Norfolk, England Scotland * Eccles, Scottish Borders France * Eccles, Nord, a commune in Nord department, France United States * Eccles, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in West Virginia * Eccles Avenue Historic District, Ogden, Utah * Eccles Broadcast Center, Salt Lake City, Utah * Eccles Building, Washington, D.C. * Eccles Coliseum, in Cedar City, Utah, home of the Southern Utah University football team * Rice-Eccles Stadium, in Salt Lake City, Utah, home of the University of Utah football team Transport * Eccles Interchange, a tram/bus interchange in Eccles Greater Manchester * Eccles Line, a tram line in Greater Manchester * Eccles railway station, in Eccles Greater M ...
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South London Storm
South London Storm was a rugby league club who played and trained at Archbishop Lanfranc School in the London Borough of Croydon. They competed in the London and South East Merit League. Founded in 1997, Storm were voted Rugby League Conference "Club of the Year" three times, in 2002, 2005 and 2006. In 2013, South London Storm merged with West London Sharks to form South West London Chargers. Club Details & Personnel Club honours *Harry Jepson Trophy (RLC National Champions): Winners 2006 *RLC Club Of The Year: 2002, 2005, 2006 *RLC Shield: Winners 2002 *Active Sports Club Of The Year Award: 2004 *BBC London Amateur Sports Club of the Year: 2006 *RLC Premier South Division Winners: 2005, 2006, 2009 *RLC Premier South Division Runners Up: 2007, 2008 *RLC Premier South Grand Final Winners: 2005, 2006 *RLC Premier South Grand Final Runners Up: 2007, 2008, 2009 *London Academy Final: Winners 2009 *London Amateur Rugby League (2nd XIII): Winners 2006 *Gordon Anderton Memorial Tr ...
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Thornhill Trojans
Thornhill Trojans are an amateur rugby league club situated in Thornhill, West Yorkshire; they currently compete in the National Conference League Premier Division Formation Thornhill ARLFC was formed in 1988 at a meeting held at Thornhill Edge Club, attended by Thornhill Gate Officials, players and supporters along with Thornhill Lees Juniors parents and officials. Previously to that, Rugby League in the Thornhill area had been played under the Overthorpe Rangers and Gate Inn Banner. The club started by electing to have Overthorpe Sports Club as the club's headquarters. Players still had to get changed in the old council building at the entrance to Overthorpe Park, but a lot of people rallied round and the old dressing rooms were given a face-lift in 1994 when a lot of players got involved to improve the facility. This included the fabrication, erecting and welding of new rugby posts, and barriers around the field with an army of helpers. An old joiners shop at the top of t ...
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Halton Simms Cross
Halton may refer to: Places United Kingdom * Borough of Halton, Cheshire **Halton (UK Parliament constituency) ** Halton, Runcorn * Halton, Buckinghamshire ** RAF Halton * Halton, Lancashire, a village * Halton, Leeds, a suburb * Halton, Northumberland, a village * Halton East, North Yorkshire * Halton Gill, North Yorkshire * Halton Holegate, Lincolnshire * Halton Lea Gate, Northumberland * Halton West, North Yorkshire Canada * Halton (federal electoral district) * Halton (provincial electoral district) * Halton County, Ontario * Halton Regional Municipality, Ontario Other uses * Halton (barony) * Halton (surname) * Halton Arp (1927–2013), American astronomer * Halton ''Jupiter'', a 1970s British human-powered aircraft * Halton sequence, a sequence of nearly uniformly distributed numbers that appear to be random * Handley Page Halton, civil version of the Halifax bomber aircraft See also * Halton Castle (other) * Halton railway station (disambiguati ...
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Saddleworth Rangers
Saddleworth Rangers are an amateur Rugby League side, formed in 1930, based at Shaw Hall Bank Road, Greenfield, Greater Manchester in the Saddleworth district of Oldham. The club has teams at a number of levels from junior to the first team, which competes in the National Conference League Division One. In 1993 they won the National Conference League Premier Division. The clubs crest features both a white and red rose to reflect the Saddleworth area's historical routes of strong connections to both Yorkshire and Lancashire, the area having left Yorkshire in 1974 to form part of Greater Manchester. The club's ground, which has hosted Rugby League for over 60 years, features a small covered stand and a new clubhouse which was opened in 2016, fundraising included a world record attempt at a continuous game of touch rugby. The Clubhouse was named in honour of stalwart Terry Flanagan MBE, in a ceremony attended by the then Rugby League Chief Executive Nigel Woods and Chief Operati ...
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Millom
Millom is a town and civil parish on the north shore of the estuary of the River Duddon in southernmost Cumberland, Cumbria, England. It is situated just outside the Lake District National Park, about north of Barrow-in-Furness ( by road) and south of Whitehaven. Millom was a small village centred on Holy Trinity Church and Millom Castle until the 19th century. The modern town developed following the opening of Millom Ironworks in 1866. Built around the ironworks, the town subsumed the village of Holborn Hill and grew to a size of over 10,000 people by the 1960s, but has struggled since the works were closed in 1968. Culturally, Millom is notable as the birthplace of poet Norman Nicholson, and for its historical links with rugby league. History In January 2023, six Bronze Age socketed axe heads at a site near Millom. The finds were featured in the BBC's '' Digging for Britain'' in January 2025. Millom is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as one of the townships for ...
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Rochdale Mayfield
Rochdale Mayfield are an amateur rugby league football club from Castleton, Rochdale, Greater Manchester. The club currently competes in the top division of the National Conference League. The club also operates academy teams who are known collectively as Rochdale Mayfield Mustangs. History ''Mayfield ARLFC'' were formed in 1958. The club's name came from the Mayfield Hotel in Rochdale where they were originally based. After a number of years, the club moved to the Old Bridge Inn, and played at Balderstone Park and Springhill. The club notably played Challenge Cup games against Salford, Hunslet and Rochdale Hornets (February 2016). Mayfield again moved to a new venue when they entered into a ground share deal with the Castleton Moor Cricket Club, and entered the National Conference League. The club has developed players for Rochdale Hornets and other local semi-professional sides. The now named ''Rochdale Mayfield'' again moved in 2006. This time to the Mayfield Sports Centre ...
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Fife Lions
Fife Lions ARLFC are a rugby league club located in Fife Fife ( , ; ; ) is a council areas of Scotland, council area and lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area in Scotland. A peninsula, it is bordered by the Firth of Tay to the north, the North Sea to the east, the Firth of Forth to the s ..., Scotland. They play in the Scottish National League. The Fife Lions in recent years have been one of the dominant teams in the SRLC. Winning their maiden premiership in 2004, the Lions were undefeated throughout the regular season in 2005 only to become unstuck in the Grand Final, going down to the Edinburgh Eagles in the decider. History Originally called the ''Linlithgow Lions'', they played in the inaugural Scottish League in 1997 and played in it till the 2000 season. They then relocated to Fife to become ''Fife Lions'' entering the Scottish Rugby League Conference for the 2002 season and made it to the final. Backing up in 2003, the Lions were defeated by the Ed ...
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