Sandal Rugby Union Football Club is an

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rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...

team based in

Sandal Magna Sandal Magna or Sandal is a suburb of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England with a population in 2001 of 5,432. An ancient settlement, it is the site of Sandal Castle and is mentioned in the Domesday Book. It is south from Wakefield, north of Ba ...

near

Wakefield Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 99,251 in the 2011 census.https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks101ew Census 2011 table KS101EW Usual resident population, ...

West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in the moors of the Pennines. West Yorkshire came into exi ...

. The club runs three senior sides, a veterans team, academy and colts teams and ten junior teams. The first XV plays in

North Premier North Premier was a level five league in the English rugby union system, with the fourteen teams drawn from across Northern England. The other leagues at this level were London & South East Premier, Midlands Premier and South West Premier. Th ...

History

Sandal RUFC was formed in 1927 by former

Wakefield RFC Wakefield RFC was an English rugby union club, founded in 1901 and folded in 2004 as a result of poor finances, with a trading loss of £105,000 for the season and unsecured creditors' loans of approximately £640,000. The club's final season w ...

player Claude Beaumont.Sandal - 'The pre-war years'
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Honours

* North Division 1 champions: 1994-95 * Yorkshire Cup winners (3): 1997, 2001, 2019 *

Yorkshire 1 Yorkshire Division One is an English rugby union division, the seventh tier of the domestic competition, and the top level for local rugby union in parts of Yorkshire. The champions are automatically promoted to North 1 East, a division with a ...

champions: 2007-08 * North 1 (east v west) promotion play-off winners: 2009–10 * National League 3 (north v midlands) promotion play-off winners: 2014–15

Notable former players

* Eric Batten * Charles Chester * Jimmy Ledgard * Donald Metcalfe *

Roger Pearman Roger Pearman (born ) is an English rugby union and rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s, and coached rugby league in the 1960s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Queen Elizabeth Grammar School,

* Neal Spencer * Peter Read - England RU international

References

External links

Sandal RUFC website
{{Rugby union in England English rugby union teams Rugby clubs established in 1927 Sport in Wakefield