Rikki Sheriffe (born 5 May 1984) is an English former

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 ...

footballer who last played for the

Keighley Cougars The Keighley Cougars are a professional rugby league club from Keighley in West Yorkshire, England. The club play home games at Cougar Park and compete in RFL League 1, League One, the third tier of British rugby league system, British rugby le ...

in League 1. Between 2010 and 2012 he played

rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...

for

Newcastle Falcons Newcastle Falcons is a rugby union team that play in Premiership Rugby, England's highest division of rugby union. The club was established in 1877 as the Gosforth Football Club. Around 1882 the club merged with the Northumberland Football Cl ...

. In his earlier rugby league career he played for the

Bradford Bulls The Bradford Bulls are a professional rugby league club in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, and compete in the Championship, the second tier of British rugby league. The club have won the League Championship six times, the Challenge Cup f ...

, Halifax,

York City Knights The York Knights are the men's professional rugby league team of York RLFC, based in York, England. The club play their home games at York Community Stadium and currently compete in the RFL Championship, Championship, the second tier of Briti ...

, Harlequins RL and

Doncaster Doncaster ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in South Yorkshire, England. Named after the River Don, Yorkshire, River Don, it is the administrative centre of the City of Doncaster metropolitan borough, and is the second largest se ...

. Rikki Sheriffe's usual position is , or . Since the start of 2017 Sheriffe is also Keighley's development coach. His brother Jode Sheriffe is a Jamaican international, and for two seasons, 2015–16, Rikki, Jodie and their other brother Jesse all played for Keighley. On 24 Oct 2019 it was announced that Sheriffe had retired and taken up a role as Assistant Coach for

Halifax Panthers The Halifax Panthers are a professional rugby league club in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. They play home games at The Shay and compete in the Championship, the second tier of British rugby league. Halifax Panthers have won the League Ch ...

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1984 births Living people Black British sportsmen Bradford Bulls players Doncaster R.L.F.C. players English people of Jamaican descent Sportspeople of Jamaican descent English rugby league players English rugby union players Halifax Panthers players Huddersfield Giants players Keighley Cougars players London Broncos players Newcastle Falcons players Rugby league players from Bradford Rugby league wingers Rugby union players from Bradford York Knights players 21st-century English sportsmen {{England-rugbyleague-bio-stub