Saddleworth Rangers are an amateur

Rugby League Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

side, formed in 1930, based at Shaw Hall Bank Road,

Greenfield, Greater Manchester Greenfield is a village in the civil parish of Saddleworth in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It is east of Oldham, and northeast of Manchester. It lies in a broad rural area at the southern edge of the So ...

in the

Saddleworth Saddleworth is a civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. It comprises several villages and hamlets as well as suburbs of Oldham on the west side of the Pennine hills. Areas include Austerlands, Delp ...

district of

Oldham Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, w ...

. 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 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

Chief Executive Nigel Woods and Chief Operating Office

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. At almost 160m above sea level, the ground is one of the highest in Rugby League.

History

Founder members of

BARLA The British Amateur Rugby League Association (BARLA) is an association for social and recreational rugby league. It works jointly with the Rugby Football League through the RFL Community Board. History BARLA was created in 1973 in Huddersfiel ...

in 1973, and the

National Conference League The National Conference League (known as the Kingstone Press National Conference League for sponsorship reasons) is the top English amateur rugby league competition in the Rugby Football League pyramid, and as such is the leading amateur rugby l ...

in 1986. History of the National Conference League ( this version)

Notable former players

Paddy Kirwan *

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* James Greenwood * Terry Flanagan MBE * Mark Flanagan * Josh Johnson * Richard Russell *

Des Foy Des Foy (born 29 December 1963 in Oldham, Lancashire) is a former professional rugby league footballer, appearing for various teams in Britain, and Australia, and at the international level for Great Britain and Ireland. Foy signed for Widnes ...

* Ryan Maneely * Ben White *

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* Nicky Kiss * Terry Fogerty * Alex Givvons * George Ford

Honours

Premier Division ** Winners (1): 1992–93 ** Runner Up (1): 1991–92 *

Division Two ** Winners (1): 1989–90 *

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** Winners (3): 1990–91, 1992–93, 1993–1994

References

External links

Saddleworth Rangers Official website

National Conference League - Saddleworth Rangers
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