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A new club, Featherstone Rovers, was formed in the Railway Hotel in 1902, reformed in 1906 and joined the Northern Union in 1907. Initially the club played in the Dewsbury, Wakefield & District League (1919 to 1921) as well as the Yorkshire Combination (1905 to 1912) and The Yorkshire Junior Cup (1909 to 1921).
Featherstone Rovers are an English rugby league club. Everyone who played for the club between 1921 and 2016 has been allocated a sequential heritage number by the club, in order of their appearance. Everyone who played for the club between 1921 and 2016 has been allocated a sequential heritage number by the club, in order of their appearance.
In the Challenge Cup final Featherstone Rovers faced Barrow, who were captain-coached by Jim Challinor at Wembley Stadium on Saturday 13 May 1967 in front of a crowd of 76,290. Featherstone Rovers won 17-12 and it was their first Cup final win in two final appearances.
The 1982–83 Challenge Cup was the 82nd staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup. Known as the State Express Challenge Cup for sponsorship reasons, the final was contested by Featherstone Rovers and Hull F.C. at Wembley. Featherstone won the match 14–12, and is considered one of the biggest upsets in Challenge ...
Featherstone Rovers (1904–present) Wakefield A.F.C. (2020–2023, 2024-present) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Post Office Road (currently known as the Millennium Stadium for sponsorship purposes) is a rugby league ground in Featherstone , near Pontefract , West Yorkshire , England .
Kris Welham (born 10 March 1987) is an English rugby league footballer who plays as a centre for Sheffield Eagles in the RFL Championship and the England Knights at international level. He has played for Hull Kingston Rovers in the Super League and the Bradford Bulls in the Kingstone Press Championship .
Steve Nash (born 7 April 1949) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and coached in the 1980s. A Great Britain and England national representative and scrum-half, [2] he played his club rugby for Featherstone Rovers, winning a Challenge Cup title with them and being one of the inaugural inductees into the club's hall of fame.
The women's team of Featherstone Rovers was founded in 2011 and initially competed in the Women's Rugby League Conference. [1] The club, which had previously been Wakefield Panthers, [2] [3] included numerous England internationals [4] and were one of the most successful women's teams of the previous twenty years having won the Women's Amateur Rugby League Association Challenge Cup 14 times ...