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Castleford Tigers
The Castleford Tigers are a professional rugby league club based in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England. They play their home games at Wheldon Road (currently known as the OneBore Stadium for sponsorship reasons) and compete in the Super League, the top flight of the British rugby league system.
Castleford have won the Challenge Cup on four occasions, most recently in 1986. Although the club has never won a League Championship, they have been runners up three times and won the League Leaders' Shield in 2017.
The club has rivalries with neighbours Featherstone Rovers, Leeds Rhinos and Wakefield Trinity. The club's traditional home colours are black and amber, with orange also being used in recent years.
Rugby league in the town of Castleford can be traced back to the late nineteenth century. The original Castleford RFC joined the Northern Rugby Football Union in the breakaway league's second year, the 1896–97 season, and remained in the semi-professional ranks for ten seasons until withdrawing at the end of 1905–06. Little is known about this original club, which was not directly connected to the current Castleford Tigers RLFC.
The present club was formed in 1912, although no records are available prior to the team entering the Yorkshire Senior Competition in 1922, where they participated as amateurs for four seasons. An application to become members of the Rugby Football League was rejected out of hand in 1923, with further bids voted down in 1924 and 1925. However, at the RFL annual meeting on 17 February 1926, Castleford were successful in their application and were admitted to the league.
Having been elected into the Rugby Football League, Castleford joined the competition for the 1926–27 season. The club professionalised, holding its first directors' meeting on 7 July 1926. They agreed to purchase their current home ground on Wheldon Road and, after a year making improvements, moved there in 1927.
The club soon started to make a mark on northern rugby, claiming their first major trophy when they topped the Yorkshire League in 1932, followed by winning the Challenge Cup in 1935 by defeating Huddersfield 11–8. In 1939, they made it to the Championship final, but lost a close fought game against Salford, 8–6. The Second World War meant the league was suspended soon after, and Castleford officially abstained from league competition until the 1944–45 season.[citation needed]
Castleford finished fourth in the national league in the 1962/63 season. The following season they lost 7–5 to Widnes in the Challenge Cup semi-final replay at Belle Vue, Wakefield in front of a 28,700 crowd after drawing at Station Road, Swinton in the first meeting of the two clubs. Under the direction of coach George Clinton, Castleford won many fans in the '60s by playing an open and free-flowing style of rugby, earning them the nicknames "Classy Cas" and "High Speed Cas", the latter playing off the slogan for British Gas in use at the time.[citation needed]
Castleford Tigers
The Castleford Tigers are a professional rugby league club based in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England. They play their home games at Wheldon Road (currently known as the OneBore Stadium for sponsorship reasons) and compete in the Super League, the top flight of the British rugby league system.
Castleford have won the Challenge Cup on four occasions, most recently in 1986. Although the club has never won a League Championship, they have been runners up three times and won the League Leaders' Shield in 2017.
The club has rivalries with neighbours Featherstone Rovers, Leeds Rhinos and Wakefield Trinity. The club's traditional home colours are black and amber, with orange also being used in recent years.
Rugby league in the town of Castleford can be traced back to the late nineteenth century. The original Castleford RFC joined the Northern Rugby Football Union in the breakaway league's second year, the 1896–97 season, and remained in the semi-professional ranks for ten seasons until withdrawing at the end of 1905–06. Little is known about this original club, which was not directly connected to the current Castleford Tigers RLFC.
The present club was formed in 1912, although no records are available prior to the team entering the Yorkshire Senior Competition in 1922, where they participated as amateurs for four seasons. An application to become members of the Rugby Football League was rejected out of hand in 1923, with further bids voted down in 1924 and 1925. However, at the RFL annual meeting on 17 February 1926, Castleford were successful in their application and were admitted to the league.
Having been elected into the Rugby Football League, Castleford joined the competition for the 1926–27 season. The club professionalised, holding its first directors' meeting on 7 July 1926. They agreed to purchase their current home ground on Wheldon Road and, after a year making improvements, moved there in 1927.
The club soon started to make a mark on northern rugby, claiming their first major trophy when they topped the Yorkshire League in 1932, followed by winning the Challenge Cup in 1935 by defeating Huddersfield 11–8. In 1939, they made it to the Championship final, but lost a close fought game against Salford, 8–6. The Second World War meant the league was suspended soon after, and Castleford officially abstained from league competition until the 1944–45 season.[citation needed]
Castleford finished fourth in the national league in the 1962/63 season. The following season they lost 7–5 to Widnes in the Challenge Cup semi-final replay at Belle Vue, Wakefield in front of a 28,700 crowd after drawing at Station Road, Swinton in the first meeting of the two clubs. Under the direction of coach George Clinton, Castleford won many fans in the '60s by playing an open and free-flowing style of rugby, earning them the nicknames "Classy Cas" and "High Speed Cas", the latter playing off the slogan for British Gas in use at the time.[citation needed]