Featherstone Lions
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| Full name | Featherstone Lions ARLFC |
| Website | [1] |
| Colours | Blue & White Butchers Stripe shirts and Navy shorts |
| Founded | 1994 |
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| Competition | Rugby League Conference National Division and CMS Yorkshire league Division 3 |
Featherstone Lions are an amateur rugby league club from Featherstone, West Yorkshire who play in the National Conference League and the CMS Yorkshire league Division 3. The juniors (U7 - U18) play in the Yorkshire Junior & Youth League http://www.yorkshirejuniorsarl.co.uk
Their home ground is the Millpond Stadium. They are the town's second side, after Featherstone Rovers who play in the Championship.
Featherstone Lions are the result of a merger between Jubilee Hotel and Traveller's amateur sides in the early 1990s.
Featherstone's first season, 1994–95, was in the CMS Yorkshire league First Division. At the end of the 1995-96 season, they had won promotion to the Yorkshire League Premier Division and finished 2nd in the table.
They were accepted into National Conference League Division 2 for the 1996-97 season. In 1997-98, Featherstone Lions won promotion to NCL Division 1 as champions, won the Yorkshire Cup beating Siddal in a bad tempered final at Thrum Hall and beat Doncaster in the third round of the Challenge Cup before losing to Hull Kingston Rovers.
Featherstone reached the fourth round of the Challenge Cup, in 1998-99, after beating Hemel Stags before playing Super League side Halifax.
In 2000-01, Featherstone reached the National Cup Final before losing to Thatto Heath at Spotland Stadium, Rochdale.
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