Leigh Miners Rangers are a community amateur

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football club from

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in the

Metropolitan Borough of Wigan The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in North West England. It is named after the main settlement of Wigan. It covers the towns of Atherton, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Golborne, Hindley, Ince-in-Mak ...

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. The club currently competes in the

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, the National Conference Premier Division. The club also operates an A team, Masters, an Under 18's team, and numerous junior teams. Miners Rangers also field a successful Ladies side in the

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Group

The club was founded in 1966 as Leigh Miners Welfare. The club later merged with the junior club Leigh Rangers, and changed its name to Leigh Miners Rangers. The club have defeated professional opposition twice in the Challenge Cup. They won 18–12 against Bramley in the third round of the

1999 Challenge Cup The 1999 Challenge Cup, known as the Silk Cut Challenge Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 98th staging of the Challenge Cup, a European rugby league cup competition. The competition ended with the final on 1 May 1999, which was played at Wembl ...

, and defeated

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32–6 in the fourth round of the 2015 Challenge Cup. The club's junior section has produced lots of players who went on to play rugby league professionally, most notably former internationals Denis Betts, Darren Wright,

Tommy Martyn Thomas Martyn (born 4 June 1971) is a former Ireland international rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, and coached in the 2000s. He played at representative level for Ireland, and at club level for Oldham ( Herit ...

Scott Naylor Scott Naylor (2 February 1972) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s, and has coached in the 2010s and 2020s. He played at representative level for England, and at club level for Wigan, the ...

, Steve Blakeley,

Mickey Higham Mickey Higham (born 18 September 1980) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played as a in the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. He played for the Leigh Centurions in three separate spells in the Super League and Betfred Champi ...

, Paul Rowley and Stuart Littler.

Honours

Premier Division Grand Final ** Winners (1): 2015 *

Premier Division ** Winners (2): 2004–05, 2015 *

Conference Challenge Trophy The Conference Challenge Trophy is a knockout cup competition organised by the Rugby Football League for both the National Conference League and Conference League South The Southern Conference League is a British rugby league division in the ...

** Winners (3): 2012, 2013, 2015 *

BARLA National Cup The BARLA National Cup is a knock-out competition for amateur rugby league clubs in Great Britain. It is administered by the British Amateur Rugby League Association The British Amateur Rugby League Association (BARLA) is an association for soci ...

** Winners (2): 1973–74, 1982–83 * BARLA Lancashire Cup ** Winners (4): 1975–76, 1978–79, 1981–82, 1987–88

References

External links

Official website
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