Featherstone Rovers are a

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club from

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, England, who play in Group 2 of the

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. They play their home games at

Post Office Road Post Office Road (currently known as the Millennium Stadium for sponsorship purposes) is a rugby league ground in Featherstone, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. It is the home of rugby league club Featherstone Rovers. The ground's curr ...

which is also home to the

Featherstone Rovers Featherstone Rovers are a professional rugby league club in Featherstone, West Yorkshire, England, who play in the Championship (rugby league), Championship. Featherstone is a former coal mining town with a population of around 16,000 and Rover ...

men's team.

History

The Featherstone Rovers women's team was founded in 2011 and competed in the

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for their first three seasons. The club, which had previously been the Wakefield Panthers, included numerous

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internationals and were one of the most successful women's teams of the previous twenty years having won the Women's Amateur Rugby League Association Challenge Cup 14 times between 1991 and 2007. They won the cup again in 2011 in their first season as Featherstone Rovers. In 2012, Featherstone won the inaugural RFL

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defeating Bradford Thunderbirds 46–0 in the final. They also finished top of the Premier Division and defeated Bradford 46–8 in the Championship play-off final. In 2013, they reached the final of the Challenge Shield but lost 16-34 to Normanton Knights. The following season they won the Challenge Shield with a 64–14 win against Stanningley in the final. Between 2014 and 2016 Featherstone took part in the

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, finishing top of the league in 2015 and also reached the final of the Challenge Cup in the same season. In 2017, they were one of the four teams to take part in the first season of the

and were runners-up in the Grand Final to

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, who also defeated Featherstone in final of the

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Players

2023 Squad

Internationals

Players who earned international caps while playing for Featherstone Rovers: *

: **Kayleigh Bulman **Brogan Churm **Katie Cooper-Birkenhead **Andrea Dobson **Sarah Dunn **Kim Field **Natalie Gilmour ** Natalie Harrowell **Sinead Peach ** Emily Rudge **Emma Slowe **Danielle Titterington **Gemma Walsh *

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: **Fran Copley **Gabby Harrison

Seasons

Honours

* Premier Divison: **Grand Final: 2012 **League Leaders: 2012 *

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: 2012 *Challenge Shield: 2014

References

External links

* {{RFL Women's Super League RFL Women's Super League teams Women's rugby league teams in England