Castleford Tigers
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| Full name | Castleford Tigers Rugby League Football Club |
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| Founded | 1926 |
| Ground | Wheldon Road (11,775) |
| Chairman | Ian Fulton |
| Manager | Daryl Powell |
| League | Super League |
| 2015 season | 5th |
| Website | Club home page |
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Castleford Tigers R.L.F.C. are an English rugby league club based in Castleford, West Yorkshire that plays in the rugby league top-tier Super League. Formed in 1926, the club were founder members of the 1996 Super League taking part in the inaugural competition and have won a number of major honours including the Challenge Cup four times. The club's most recent major trophy was the now-defunct 1994 Regal Trophy.
Castleford have a rivalry with neighbours Featherstone Rovers, Wakefield Trinity and Leeds. The club have been based at Wheldon Road in Castleford, since 1927, after moving from Sandy Desert in Lock Lane, Castleford.
The club's home colours are currently black and orange, although historically the home colours are black and amber.
Castleford RFC joined the Northern Rugby Football Union for the 1896–97 season, its second and remained in the ranks of the semi-professionals until the end of the 1905–06 season. Not much is known about the original Castleford club, except that they have no connection with the present Castleford Tigers RLFC.
Castleford joined the league for the 1926–27 season. Many official records state that they were founded at this time but they had played successfully in the lower Yorkshire Cup for several years before this date. They actually joined the League "code" around 1920 and played in these early years at the Sandy Desert ground, which is now used by amateur club Castleford Lock Lane youth and junior teams. The club went professional in 1926 and moved to their current home ground on Wheldon Road in 1926.
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