Featherstone Rovers
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| Full name | Featherstone Rovers Rugby League Football Club | ||
| Nickname(s) | The Flat Cappers | ||
| Short name | Featherstone Rovers | ||
| Website | featherstonerovers.net | ||
| Colours |
 Navy blue and White |
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| Founded | 1902 | ||
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| Chairman | Mark Campbell | ||
| Coach | Jon Sharp | ||
| Captain | Misi Taulapapa | ||
| Competition | Championship | ||
| 2016 season | 4th | ||
 Current season
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| Records | |||
| Championships | 1 (1977) | ||
| Challenge Cups | 3 (1967, 1973, 1983) | ||
| Other honours | 10 | ||
Featherstone Rovers R.L.F.C. are a professional rugby league club in Featherstone, West Yorkshire, England, who play in the Kingstone Press Championship.
Featherstone is a small former coal mining town with a population of around 16,000 and Rovers are one of the last "small town teams" which were common in rugby league in the early 20th century. Known as Fev or Flat Cappers, the club has produced many junior players who have gone on to play for Super League clubs. Their local rivals are Castleford and Wakefield Trinity, and in the Championship Halifax.
The club have won the Challenge Cup three times, in 1967, 1973 and 1983, and been League Champions once, in 1977.
Featherstone Trinity RUFC were formed in 1889. Featherstone Trinity played their first game on the New Inn fields against Castleford Mill Lane Rovers. The following season in 1890, Featherstone went 19 games without defeat. They dropped the Trinity to become simply Featherstone RUFC in 1894. Featherstone voted to join the Northern Union in 1898 and became the town's first rugby league team. They folded in 1902.
A new club, Featherstone Rovers, was formed in the Railway Hotel in 1902, reformed in 1906 and joined the Northern Union in 1907. The club was originally made up of local miners and between 1912 and 1913 played at the Featherstone Main Colliery Welfare Ground. In 1913 Featherstone Rovers merged with Purston White Horse.
To bolster the ranks of the war time league, Featherstone Rovers along with Brighouse Rangers and St Helens Recs were promoted from district leagues to join the senior clubs for the duration of the conflict, although Featherstone only lasted one season.
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