Rochdale Mayfield are an amateur

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 ...

football club from Castleton,

Rochdale Rochdale ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, at the foothills of the South Pennines in the dale on the River Roch, northwest of Oldham and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough ...

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. The club currently competes in the top division of the

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. The club also operates academy teams who are known collectively as Rochdale Mayfield Mustangs.

History

''Mayfield ARLFC'' were formed in 1958. The club's name came from the Mayfield Hotel in Rochdale where they were originally based. After a number of years, the club moved to the Old Bridge Inn, and played at Balderstone Park and Springhill. The club notably played

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games against

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and

Rochdale Hornets The Rochdale Hornets are a professional rugby league club from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, competing in the Championship, the second tier of European rugby league. The Rochdale Hornets are one of the original twenty-two rugby clubs ...

(February 2016). Mayfield again moved to a new venue when they entered into a ground share deal with the Castleton Moor Cricket Club, and entered the

. The club has developed players for

and other local semi-professional sides. The now named ''Rochdale Mayfield'' again moved in 2006. This time to the Mayfield Sports Centre, Castleton, the club's current home. In August 2020 Rochdale Mayfield incorporated the youth emblem of a mustang into their crest.

Honours

* NCL Division One **Winners (2): 1992–93, 2006–07 *

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** Winners (1): 2016 * BARLA Lancashire Cup ** Winners (1): 1974–75

External links

Mayfield on the NCL website
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