Burntwood Barbarians are a

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

club founded in 2006, as part of the Burntwood Rugby Club Sports Association. Having played in the

Rugby League Conference The Rugby League Conference, also known as the Co-operative Rugby League Conference as a result of sponsorship from The Co-operative Group), was a series of regionally based divisions of amateur rugby league teams spread throughout England, Sco ...

, West Midlands division for two seasons, the club currently play in the

Midlands Rugby League The Midlands Rugby League is a series of summer rugby league competition for amateur teams in the Midlands. The competition was formed in 2006 as the Rugby League Conference, RLC Midlands Premier. Its name changed following the 2012 restructur ...

. They played their games at Burntwood rugby union club in

Burntwood Burntwood is a former mining town and civil parish in the Lichfield District of Staffordshire, England. It is approximately west of Lichfield and north east of Brownhills, with a population of 26,049 and forming part of Lichfield district. T ...

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ...

and were founded by some players who previously played for Wolverhampton Wizards.

History

''Burntwood Barbarians'' joined the

South West and West Midlands Division in 2006. Their first season in the

was successful, reaching the play-offs and winning their eliminator against

Plymouth Plymouth ( ) is a port city status in the United Kingdom, city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England. It is located on Devon's south coast between the rivers River Plym, Plym and River Tamar, Tamar, about southwest of Exeter and ...

. Unfortunately holiday traffic and accidents on the M5 caused them to miss their semi-final against

Somerset Vikings Somerset Vikings RLFC are a rugby league team from the county of Somerset in England. They play in the West of England Rugby League. The team play at Hornets RFC Weston-super-Mare. On a full artificial pitch. In 2004/5 the Vikings became a club ...

. They left the Conference at the end of the 2007 season and spent the 2008 as a non-playing side. The club joined the Kukri Midlands League in 2009, but did not enter the 2010 competition.

References

* https://web.archive.org/web/20090607195925/http://burntwoodbarbarians.co.uk/aboutus.aspx {{refend

External links

Midlands Rugby League
Rugby league teams in Staffordshire Burntwood Rugby League Conference teams Rugby clubs established in 2006