Rossendale Rugby Football Club is an English
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 ...
team based in
Rawtenstall, Rossendale, Lancashire. The club runs three senior sides, a colts team, and eleven junior sides. The first XV currently play in the
National League 2 North
National League 2 North is one of three level four leagues in the English rugby union system and provides semi-professional competition for teams in Northern England. The remainder of England is covered by the two counterpart leagues National L ...
following their promotion from
Regional 1 North West at the end of the 2024–25 season.
Ground
Having previously played on farmland high above the town, the club are currently based at Marl Pits in Rawtenstall, just off Newchurch Road, located next to the Marl Pits Leisure Centre complex. Access to the ground is by car only with the
A56 intersecting nearby
Haslingden being the nearest main road. The rugby ground has on-site parking, a club house which can seat up to 120, and a covered terrace next to the main rugby pitch. Capacity around the main pitch includes approximately 100 in the covered terrace and 1,000 pitch side for a total of around 1,100 (all standing).
Honours
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North-West North 1 champions: 1990–91
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North Lancs/Cumbria champions: 2004–05
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North Lancashire/Cumbria v South Lancs/Cheshire 1 promotion play-off winner: 2007–08
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North 2 (east v west) promotion play-off winner: 2008–09
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Regional 1 North West champions: 2024–25
References
External links
Official club website
Rugby union teams in England
Rugby clubs established in 1969
Sport in the Borough of Rossendale
Rugby union clubs in Lancashire
1969 establishments in England
Rawtenstall
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