Chris Chapman (born 14 April 1966) is a former professional

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played at club level for

Castleford Castleford is a town within the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 45,106 at a 2021 population estimate. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, to the north of the town centre the River Calder joins the ...

and

Huddersfield Huddersfield is a market town in the Kirklees district in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confluence into ...

, as a .

Playing career

Castleford

Chapman played (replaced by substitute David Roockley) in

's 12–33 defeat by

Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populati ...

in the

1988 Yorkshire Cup File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

Final during the 1988–89 season at Headingley,

on Sunday 16 October 1988.

Huddersfield

In May 1990, Chapman was signed by

for a club record fee of £12,500.

References

External links

Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org (incorrectly includes statistics of the rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s for; Leeds, Sheffield Eagles, and Dewsbury Rams)Chris Chapman Memory Box Search at archive.castigersheritage.com
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