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Sale Sharks
Sale Sharks is a professional rugby union club from Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom. It's team play in Premiership Rugby, and has been in England's top division of rugby union continuously since 1994. Originally founded in 1861 as Sale Football Club (which is now a distinct amateur club), it is one of the oldest existing football clubs. It adopted the nickname Sharks in 1999.
Since 2012, Sale has played home games at the CorpAcq Stadium (formerly known as Salford Community Stadium) in Barton-upon-Irwell, Salford, which is shared with Salford Red Devils rugby league club. Between 1905 and 2003, Sale played at Heywood Road in Sale, before moving to Edgeley Park in Stockport where Sale stayed until 2012. Historically one of the leading teams in the north of England, the traditional colours are blue and white.
Domestically, Sale was Premiership champions in 2005–06 and runners up in 2001-02 and 2022-23. Sale won the Premiership Rugby Cup in 2019-20 and was losing finalists in its predecessors, the RFU Knockout Cup in 1997 and the Anglo-Welsh Cup, in 2012-13. Sale also won the second division in 1994 to secure promotion to the Premiership. Internationally, the club won the second tier European Rugby Challenge Cup in 2001–02 and 2004–05.
In the 2024–25 Premiership Rugby season, Sale finished third in the regular season, losing in the play-off semi-final. This position entitled the team to compete in the 2024–25 European Rugby Champions Cup. The club's Director of Rugby is Alex Sanderson, who was appointed in January 2021.
The club was founded in 1861 and is one of the oldest clubs in English rugby. Throughout its history it has been one of the leading rugby union clubs in the north of England. Sale moved into Heywood Road in 1905 and remained there until 2003.
Sale were unbeaten in 26 matches, winning 24 and drawing two in 1911.
Although Pat Davies is counted as Sale's first international, having been picked to play for England in 1927, it was G.A.M. Isherwood who was Sale's first representative in an international Test match, when he played in all three tests of the 1910 British tour to South Africa at scrum-half. The club has consistently provided international players and, during the 1930s, had one of its most dominant periods, fielding players of the calibre of Hal Sever (England), Claude Davey and Wilf Wooller (Wales) and Ken Fyfe (Scotland). It came as little surprise when they took out the 1936 Middlesex Sevens.
Sale ruled the roost in county cup rugby for 15 straight seasons as the team went unbeaten from 1972 to 1987 in every one of those cup fixtures. During this period, Sale competed for the chance to be English club champions. In the team's first year, one after the inaugural competition kicked off in 1971, it made the semi-finals only to lose to eventual winners Coventry 35–6.
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Sale Sharks
Sale Sharks is a professional rugby union club from Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom. It's team play in Premiership Rugby, and has been in England's top division of rugby union continuously since 1994. Originally founded in 1861 as Sale Football Club (which is now a distinct amateur club), it is one of the oldest existing football clubs. It adopted the nickname Sharks in 1999.
Since 2012, Sale has played home games at the CorpAcq Stadium (formerly known as Salford Community Stadium) in Barton-upon-Irwell, Salford, which is shared with Salford Red Devils rugby league club. Between 1905 and 2003, Sale played at Heywood Road in Sale, before moving to Edgeley Park in Stockport where Sale stayed until 2012. Historically one of the leading teams in the north of England, the traditional colours are blue and white.
Domestically, Sale was Premiership champions in 2005–06 and runners up in 2001-02 and 2022-23. Sale won the Premiership Rugby Cup in 2019-20 and was losing finalists in its predecessors, the RFU Knockout Cup in 1997 and the Anglo-Welsh Cup, in 2012-13. Sale also won the second division in 1994 to secure promotion to the Premiership. Internationally, the club won the second tier European Rugby Challenge Cup in 2001–02 and 2004–05.
In the 2024–25 Premiership Rugby season, Sale finished third in the regular season, losing in the play-off semi-final. This position entitled the team to compete in the 2024–25 European Rugby Champions Cup. The club's Director of Rugby is Alex Sanderson, who was appointed in January 2021.
The club was founded in 1861 and is one of the oldest clubs in English rugby. Throughout its history it has been one of the leading rugby union clubs in the north of England. Sale moved into Heywood Road in 1905 and remained there until 2003.
Sale were unbeaten in 26 matches, winning 24 and drawing two in 1911.
Although Pat Davies is counted as Sale's first international, having been picked to play for England in 1927, it was G.A.M. Isherwood who was Sale's first representative in an international Test match, when he played in all three tests of the 1910 British tour to South Africa at scrum-half. The club has consistently provided international players and, during the 1930s, had one of its most dominant periods, fielding players of the calibre of Hal Sever (England), Claude Davey and Wilf Wooller (Wales) and Ken Fyfe (Scotland). It came as little surprise when they took out the 1936 Middlesex Sevens.
Sale ruled the roost in county cup rugby for 15 straight seasons as the team went unbeaten from 1972 to 1987 in every one of those cup fixtures. During this period, Sale competed for the chance to be English club champions. In the team's first year, one after the inaugural competition kicked off in 1971, it made the semi-finals only to lose to eventual winners Coventry 35–6.