Dewsbury - Sport

Sport

Dewsbury RLFC play in the Co-op Championship. They play at the Tetley's Stadium, on Owl Lane, towards Ossett, on the site of the old Savile & Shaw Cross Colliery. Their original and famous ground Crown Flatt stood on Leeds Road, at Earlsheaton, for many years until it was burned down, by arsonists in the late 1980s. It has been replaced with a modern housing estate. Dewsbury are where one of the first rugby league sides to have their own TV website www.dewsburyramstv.co.uk. Shaw Cross Sharks are perhaps the most famous amateur Rugby League club in the area. The club was founded in 1947 and has proved a great conveyor belt for players into the profesional game, including some of the great players of the past in Mick Stevenson, Nigel Stephenson David Ward. They run from Shaw Cross Club for Young People and play their home fixtures at the adjacent Paul Lee Hinchcliffe Memorial Playing Fields. The Open age first team is the National Conference League. They have junior teams ranging from under 7's right through to under 18's.Dewsbury Celtic play in National League 3, their ground is on the west side of the town, in Crow Nest Park. The club's headquarters are at the Dewsbury Irish National Club on Park Parade. Also the home of the Dewsbury Rangers Football club, with over 300 members from the ages of six through to the old boys teams it is one of the largest in the area and new members always welcome, And thanks to the hard work of the committee and all involved with the club and local community the club is due to have a purpose built clubhouse on the Wakefield Road Playing Fields about 1 mile from the town centre of Dewsbury.