Sandal RUFC

Sandal Rugby Union Football Club is an English rugby union team based in Sandal Magna near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. The club runs three senior sides, a veterans team, academy and colts teams and ten junior teams.^[1] The first XV play in the Regional 1 North East.

Sandal

Full name	Sandal Rugby Union Football Club
Union	Yorkshire RFU
Founded	1927; 98 years ago (1927)
Location	Sandal Magna, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England
Ground(s)	Milnthorpe Green
Chairman	Timothy Scatchard
President	Peter Tunningley
Coach(es)	Joe Bedford
League(s)	Regional 1 North East
2024–25	9th
Team kit
Official website
www.sandalrufc.co.uk

History

Sandal RUFC was formed in 1927 by former Wakefield RFC player Claude Beaumont.^[2]

Honours

• North Division 1 champions: 1994–95
• Yorkshire Cup winners (3): 1997, 2001, 2019
• Yorkshire 1 champions: 2007–08^[3]
• North 1 (east v west) promotion play-off winners: 2009–10^[4]
• National League 3 (north v midlands) promotion play-off winners: 2014–15^[5][6]

Notable former players

• Mike Harrison (rugby union)
• Eric Batten
• Charles Chester
• Jimmy Ledgard
• Donald Metcalfe
• Roger Pearman
• Andy Forsyth