Sedgley Park R.U.F.C.

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Sedgley Tigers
Sedgley tigers logo.png
UnionLancashire RFU
Founded1932; 90 years ago (1932)
LocationWhitefield, Greater Manchester, England
Ground(s)Park Lane (Capacity: 3,000 [1])
ChairmanSteve Ward
League(s)National League 2 North
2019–204th
Team kit
Official website
www.pitchero.com/clubs/sedgleyparktigers/

Sedgley Park Rugby Union Football Club, the 1st XV team of which play under the name of Sedgley Tigers, is a rugby union club based in Whitefield, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester. They play in the fourth tier of the English rugby union league hierarchy and have played in National League 2 North since season 2013–14. The Tigers nickname is due to their striped kit.

History[]

Sedgley Park is a district of Prestwich approximately two miles north of Manchester city centre. In 1932 at a public meeting in a temperance bar, the club began. The very first ground was a farmer's field in Whitefield, and the club has never been based in Sedgley Park. Despite primitive conditions - cowshed for changing, farmyard pump for washing - the new club thrived.

A clubhouse had already been built and three regular teams were being fielded before World War II broke out in 1939. They survived the war years, and also a difficult period afterward when they lost their rented ground. For two years all games were played away, with barely enough playing members for two teams, until in 1955 they moved to their present site, Park Lane in Whitefield, with an immediate and spectacular improvement in playing standards. During the next twenty years Sedgley Park became a successful and respected junior club but, in the years before league rugby, advancement was practically impossible, especially for a club notorious for its muddy pitches; they were often nicknamed 'Sludgley Park' by other teams! The decision to build a large, two-story clubhouse was arguably the most significant one in their history.

Building began in 1978 at a time when the club was enjoying great success on the field, and was completed in time for the 1982 Golden Jubilee season; it had been a risky venture at the time, but it set them apart from all the local junior clubs. When the Courage Leagues began in 1987 they had progressed far enough to be placed in North West 2 (level 8), from which they gained promotion at the first attempt. They remained in North West 1 for seven years; meanwhile, the club was expanding in other directions with a huge increase in quantity and quality at the age-group level of the game.

When the game went 'open' in the middle 1990s, Sedgley Park was ready for the next leap forward. Promotion was achieved three years in succession; the clubhouse was extended; the two pitches became one, now in excellent condition, with floodlights and terracing. A newly purchased field, just across the road, provided three more much needed pitches and floodlit training.

Team bus, 15 May 2008

Another promotion, in 2001, took them to National League Two, level 3 of the English game. The Tigers attained League One status in 2004, their 6th promotion since 1987, but were relegated back to level three in 2009.

Honours[]

Current standings[]

2021–22 National League 2 North Table · · discuss
Played Won Drawn Lost Points for Points against Points diff Try bonus Losing bonus Points
1 Hull 17 15 0 2 480 202 278 12 2 74
2 Sedgley Park 17 13 1 3 601 284 317 12 3 69
3 Fylde 18 14 0 4 632 314 318 11 1 68
4 Rotherham Titans 15 13 2 0 516 241 275 10 0 66
5 Stourbridge 16 13 0 3 535 360 175 12 2 66
6 Hull Ionians 17 9 2 6 462 361 101 7 4 51
7 Loughborough Students 17 7 0 10 394 502 −108 7 5 40
8 Chester 17 7 0 10 360 465 −105 5 0 33
9 Sheffield Tigers 16 7 0 9 310 398 −88 1 3 32
10 Luctonians 17 6 0 11 274 367 −93 3 5 32
11 Bournville 16 5 1 10 408 480 −72 5 5 32
12 Tynedale 17 5 1 11 359 487 −128 6 4 32
13 Wharfedale 17 6 1 10 306 454 −148 3 2 31
14 Huddersfield 16 4 0 12 293 445 −152 4 4 24
15 Harrogate 16 3 0 13 261 511 −250 4 2 18
16 Blaydon 17 2 0 15 288 608 −320 2 2 12
  • If teams are level at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
  1. Number of matches won
  2. Difference between points for and against
  3. Total number of points for
  4. Aggregate number of points scored in matches between tied teams
  5. Number of matches won excluding the first match, then the second and so on until the tie is settled
Green background is the promotion place. Blue background is the play-off place. Pink background are relegation places.
Updated: 24 January 2022
Source: "National League 2 North". NCA Rugby.


References[]

  1. ^ "Park Lane - Sedgley Park RUFC".
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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