Barrow Raiders
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| Club information | |
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| Full name | Barrow Rugby League Football Club Ltd |
| Nickname(s) | The Raiders |
| Short name | Barrow |
| Website | barrowrlfc.com |
| Colours |  |
| Founded | 1875 |
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| Coach(s) | Paul Crarey |
| Competition | Kingstone Press League 1 (from 2015) |
| 2014 RFL Championship | 14th |
| Records | |
| Challenge Cups | 1 (1954–55) |
| Lancashire Cup | 2 (1954–55, 1982-83) |
| Second Division | 2 (1975–76, 2009) |
| National League Two | 1 (2004) |
Barrow Raiders R.L.F.C. is an English professional rugby league team from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, which is coached by Paul Crarey. The club was formed in 1875 as Barrow Football Club. For the 1995-96 and 1996 seasons the club was known as Barrow Braves, adopting its current name for the 1997 season following a merger with Carlisle Border Raiders.
Barrow Raiders compete in Kingstone Press League 1, the third tier of European rugby league (behind the Super League and Championship).
Barrow Football Club was formed in 1875 and played its first home game on 4 December of that year against the Royal Grammar School, Lancaster, at Cavendish Park on Barrow Island, then home to the town's cricket club. It is thought that Tom H. Baynes, a shipping clerk, was the driving force behind the club's foundation. As well as being a player, he was probably also the first Barrow team coach. Early practice matches games were played in "a field loaned by a local farmer" as well as the Parade Ground and the aforementioned Cavendish Park.
At the 1883 annual general meeting, Cavendish Park got the vote over the Parade Ground as a permanent home on account of its better playing surface. The first grandstand there was erected in 1893, and another one in 1893.
In April 1897, the team switched from rugby union to rugby league following a unanimous vote at the club. Barrow joined the Second Division of the Lancashire Senior Competition and became champions in their first season. They lost a test match against Morecambe, the bottom club in the First Division, however, and failed to gain promotion. They were eventually promoted at the end of the 1899–1900 season, by defeating Tyldesley in the test match.
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