Salford City Roosters 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 11 ...
football club from
Eccles in the
City of Salford, Greater Manchester. The club currently competes in the
North West Men's League
The North West Men's League is a rugby league competition for clubs in the North West of England. It is a successor league for the Rugby League Conference also comprising clubs from the North West Counties League following most of the latter swit ...
. The club also operates a number of academy teams.
History
The club formed in 1977 as Eccles, before becoming Eccles Roosters upon a link up with Australian
National Rugby League
The National Rugby League (NRL) is an Australasian rugby league club competition which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand. The NRL formed in 1998 as a joint partnership ...
club
Sydney Roosters
The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional Rugby League Football Club based in the Eastern Suburbs (Sydney) and parts of inner Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League (NRL) competition. The Roosters have won fifteen Ne ...
. The club have since rebranded again as Salford City Roosters, the club's current identity.
The club previously competed in the
National Conference League
The National Conference League (known as the Kingstone Press National Conference League for sponsorship reasons) is the top English amateur rugby league competition in the Rugby Football League pyramid, and as such is the leading amateur rugby l ...
, but withdrew their membership from the league in 2019.
References
External links
Official websitethe club at NCL.co.uk
BARLA teams
Sport in the City of Salford
Rugby league teams in Greater Manchester
Rugby clubs established in 1977
1977 establishments in England
Eccles, Greater Manchester
Rugby league teams in England
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