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Challenge Cup 2006
The 2006 Challenge Cup (also known as the Powergen Challenge Cup due to sponsorship from Powergen) was the 105th tournament played for rugby league's Challenge Cup. It features teams from across Europe including England, Scotland, Wales, France and Russia. The competition started in January 2006 with the preliminary round where the Gloucestershire Warriors from the Rugby League Conference surprised an established Pennine League team in Illingworth. The final was scheduled to be played at the new Wembley Stadium but in March 2006 it became apparent that the stadium would not be ready for the final on 26 August so it was switched to Twickenham. In the final St. Helens proved too strong for the Huddersfield Giants, winning by 42 points to 12. It was Huddersfield's first final since 1953, when they also faced St Helens. Round 1 :''(week ending 5 February)'' Sees the introduction of the major amateur clubs from the National Conference League and the teams from National League ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RFL League 1
The Rugby Football League's League One (known as the Betfred League One) is the third-highest division of rugby league in Britain. It is also the lowest level of professional rugby league in Britain. Introduced in 2003 as National League 2 it was the first time British rugby league had a third tier since the old Third and Second Divisions merged in 1998. The league was rebranded as Championship 1 in 2009, then League 1 in 2015, and League One in 2022. The current winners are Oldham who won the league in 2024. History 1991–2003: Foundation and regular competition Third-division rugby league competitions in the United Kingdom have existed periodically since 1991. The current incarnation was created in 2003 when the second-division competition below Super League, the Northern Ford Premiership, was split into National Leagues One and Two. Teams that finished in the top ten league positions of the Northern Ford Premiership at the end of the 2002 season formed National Lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaw Cross
Shaw may refer to: Places Australia *Shaw, Queensland Canada *Shaw Street, a street in Toronto England *Shaw, Berkshire, a village * Shaw, Greater Manchester, a location in the parish of Shaw and Crompton * Shaw, Swindon, a suburb of Swindon **Shaw (ward) *Shaw, Wiltshire, a village near Melksham Philippines *Shaw Boulevard, a major thoroughfare in Metro Manila ** Shaw Boulevard station, a station of the MRT-3 United States * Shaw, Kansas, an unincorporated community *Shaw, Mississippi, a city * Mount Shaw, a summit in the Ossipee Mountains of New Hampshire * Shaw Creek (Ohio), a stream in Ohio *Shaw, Tennessee, now known as Burwood, Tennessee *Shaw, West Virginia, a ghost town *Shaw, Washington, D.C., a neighborhood *Shaw, St. Louis, Missouri, a neighborhood *Shaw Air Force Base, US Air Force base in South Carolina People * Shaw (name), people with "Shaw" as given name or surname * Shao, Chinese surname, also spelled "Shaw" * Clan Shaw of Tordarroch, a Scottish clan Educat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunslet Warriors
Hunslet () is an inner-city area in south Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is southeast of the Leeds city centre, city centre and has an industrial past. It is situated in the Hunslet and Riverside (ward), Hunslet and Riverside ward of Leeds City Council and Leeds South (UK Parliament constituency), Leeds South parliamentary constituency. The population of the previous City and Hunslet council ward at the 2011 census was 33,705. Many engineering companies were based in Hunslet, including John Fowler & Co. manufacturers of traction engines and steam rollers, the Hunslet Engine Company builders of locomotives (including those used during the construction of the Channel Tunnel), Kitson & Co., Manning Wardle and Hudswell Clarke. Many railway locomotives were built in the Jack Lane area of Hunslet. The area has a mixture of modern and 19th century industrial buildings, terraced house, terraced housing and 20th century housing. It is an area that has grown up significantly aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wigan St Patricks
Wigan St. Patricks is an amateur rugby league football club based in the Scholes area of Wigan, Greater Manchester. The first team plays in the National Conference League Division One . In 1986, the club was one of ten founder members of the BARLA National Amateur League (now known as the National Conference League). The club is renowned for producing talented young players. More than 50 former St Pats players have gone on to play for the town's professional team, Wigan Warriors, and many have gone on to play Test rugby league, the highest level, for Great Britain and England RL including Joe Egan, Andy Gregory, John Fieldhouse, Joe Lydon, Andy Platt, Mike Gregory, Shaun Edwards, Martin Dermott, Shaun Wane, Ian Lucas, Phil Clarke, Chris Joynt, Mick Cassidy, Kris Radlinski, Sean O'Loughlin, Sam Tomkins, Liam Farrell, Josh Charnley, Tom Davies. and also Papua New Guinea international Lachlan Lam. In 2014, St Pats reached the third round of the Challenge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warrington Wizards
Woolston Rovers are a rugby league team based in Warrington. The open age teams play in the National Division of the Rugby League Conference. History Woolston Rovers Woolston Rovers Rugby Club was founded at the Lido Country Club on Manchester Road, Woolston, Cheshire, in 1959. The first game played by the Woolston Rovers was against Cadishead in the 1960–61 season, with Woolston losing 58–8. Woolston had no pitch for the first two seasons and played all their games away from home. At the start of the third year, they acquired a pitch in Victoria Park, where they played until they moved to Bennetts Recreation Ground, Padgate. The Jubilee Pavilion at Bennetts Recreation Ground was opened in 1978. Along with the clubhouse and changing facilities, Rovers had three playing pitches. These playing facilities were used in full when the junior section started in 1978. From 1978 up to 2002, Rovers had in excess of 10 teams per season. Woolston Rovers were one of the original ten c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clayton RLFC
Clayton Rugby League Football Club is an amateur rugby league club in Clayton, West Yorkshire Clayton, or Clayton Village, is a civil parish in the City of Bradford metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England, situated to the west of Bradford city centre. It is listed in the ''Domesday Book'', meaning that it dates back to at least ..., currently competing in the Pennine League. Clayton play at Lidget Green Cricket Club's ground in a home kit of striped burgundy and amber; their away kit is blue. The club has several teams including those for under-16s. History 1947 to December 1950 In 1947, the Bradford Amateur Rugby League placed an advert in the Telegraph and Argus announcing a meeting to be held in the evening at the Central Hall, Clayton, with a view to starting an amateur rugby league club in Clayton. From this meeting the club was eventually formed. To raise cash to start the club selected people were offered a Vice Presidency in return for a donation of ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thatto Heath Crusaders
Thatto Heath Crusaders is an amateur rugby league club situated in Thatto Heath, St Helens, Merseyside. The club currently competes in the National Conference League Premier Division History ''Thatto Heath'' RLFC began life in 1981, originally formed by ex-St Helens R.F.C. player Frankie Barrow. The team began competing in the North West Counties 4th Division, and the ‘A’ Team entered Division 5. The team progressed through the divisions rapidly and finished the 1986−87 season by lifting the North West Counties Premier Division Championship Trophy, the St Helens Cup and they took out the BARLA National Cup Final with a 15–8 victory over the National Conference League Champions Heworth. Captain John McCabe entered the record books as the only player to appear on the winning side in five National Cup Finals. Over the next 20 years, Thatto Heath enjoyed enormous success, including the National Cup Trophy, a record five County Cups, two Champions Challenge successes, a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bramley Buffaloes
Bramley Buffaloes is an amateur rugby league club based in West Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The club was formed in 2000 following the demise of the original Bramley club that they are considered a continuation of. History 2000–2004: foundations At the end of the 1999 season Bramley RLFC resigned from the Northern Ford Premiership after years of financial issues. The club applied to rejoin the Northern Ford Premiership in 2000 with the intention of becoming a feeder club for Leeds Rhinos and playing home games at Farsley Celtics Throstle Nest however they were rejected in favour of a bid from Gateshead Thunder. A new supporter owned club was quickly formed and applied again the join the Northern Ford Premiership in 2001 which would have seen the club playing out of Farsley Celtics Throstle Nest stadium, however the RFL rejected the bid over the ground not meeting minimum standards. The new club tried again to apply to play in the newly formed third division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
