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Rochdale Hornets RLFC
Club information
Full name
Rochdale Hornets Rugby League Football Club
Nickname(s)
Hornets
Colours
Founded
1871; 153 years ago (1871)[1]
Website
hornetsrugbyleague.co.uk
Current details
Ground(s)
Crown Oil Arena (10,249)
Athletic Grounds 1900-1988
CEO
Matt Rigby
Chairman
Andy Mazey
Coach
Gary Thornton
Captain
Duane Straugheir
Competition
League 1
2023 season
7th
Current season
Uniforms
Home colours
Away colours
Records
Minor premierships
2 (2013 2016)
Challenge Cups
1 (1922)
The Rochdale Hornets are a professional rugby league club from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, competing in the League 1, the third tier of European rugby league.[2][3] The Rochdale Hornets are one of the original twenty-two rugby clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895, making them one of the world's first rugby league clubs. Their main local rivals are Oldham, Salford Red Devils, Swinton Lions, Halifax and the Huddersfield Giants.
^The Middle Class: A History by Lawrence James, Abacus Editions, 2008 – ISBN 978-0349115436
^"Operational Rules". RFL. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
^"Rochdale Hornets". eventbrite. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
The RochdaleHornets are a professional rugby league club from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, competing in the League 1, the third tier of European...
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sports stadium in the Spotland area of Rochdale, Greater Manchester which is home to Rochdale A.F.C. and RochdaleHornets R.L.F.C. The venue has a capacity...
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1162), Salford City Reds, Leigh Centurions (Heritage No. 1198), the RochdaleHornets and after a 9-year hiatus the Barrow Raiders, usually as a scrum-half...
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Ireland and Lancashire, and at club level for Oldham (two spells), and RochdaleHornets, as a second-row. Farrell won a cap for Ireland while at Oldham. 2003...
union team in 1963, he switched to rugby league and played for the RochdaleHornets and the St. George Dragons. He played as a lock in rugby union, and...
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and for Toronto Wolfpack in League 1 in 2017, Workington Town and RochdaleHornets. A New Zealand and Tonga international representative forward, Moimoi...
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