Sport
Ossett Rugby Union Football Club are based at Ossett Cricket Club and play at Southdale playing fields, current 1st and 2nd team captains are Jack Drury and Paul Westerman respectively. Ossett Trinity, the local rugby league club, resigned from the Rugby League Conference in 2006. Ossett Cricket Club also play at Dimplewells. The Heavy Woollen District has its own cricket association and its own cricket team. Residents of Ossett are eligible to play for the Heavy Woollen District team.
Ossett hosts two semi-professional football teams, both currently playing in the Northern Premier League Division One North: Ossett Town play at Ingfield, and neighbours Ossett Albion play at Queen's Terrace, more commonly known as Dimplewells. There was an Ossett Football Club in the 1890s, they played in the original West Yorkshire League, but the oldest current club in Ossett is Ossett Common Rovers, formed in 1910 and currently playing in the modern West Yorkshire League. Other clubs in Ossett include Ossett Wanderers, Ossett United and Ossett Panthers. Little Bull F.C., Ossett Two Brewers and AFC Two Brewers play in the Wakefield & District League.
The Yorkshire and the Humber branch of the Disability Sports Federation has its headquarters on the Longlands Industrial Estate in the town.
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