Sandal

Full name	Sandal Rugby Union Football Club
Union	Yorkshire RFU
Founded	1927; 97 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
2022–23	5th
Team kit
Official website
www.sandalrufc.co.uk

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.

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

• Eric Batten
• Charles Chester
• Jimmy Ledgard
• Donald Metcalfe
• Roger Pearman