Huddersfield-Sheffield Giants
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| Club information | |
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| Full name | Huddersfield Giants Rugby League Football Club |
| Nickname(s) | The Giants Fartown The Claret and Golds Cowbell Army |
| Short name | Huddersfield Giants |
| Colours |
 Claret and Gold |
| Founded | 1864 |
| Website | giantsrl.com |
| Current details | |
| Ground(s) | |
| Chairman | Ken Davy |
| Coach | Rick Stone |
| Captain | Leroy Cudjoe |
| Competition | Super League |
| 2017 season | 8th |
 Current season
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| Records | |
| Championships | 7 (1912, 1913, 1915, 1929, 1930, 1949, 1962) |
| Challenge Cups | 6 (1913, 1915, 1920, 1933, 1945, 1953) |
| Other honours | 26 |
Huddersfield Giants R.L.F.C. are an English professional rugby league club from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, the birthplace of rugby league, who play in the Super League competition. They play their home games at the Kirklees Stadium which is shared with Huddersfield Town F.C.. Huddersfield is also one of the original twenty-two rugby clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895, making them one of the world's first rugby league teams. The club was founded in 1864 and is the world's oldest professional rugby league club. They have won 7 Championships and 6 Challenge Cups, but have not won a major trophy since 1962, some 53 years ago.
The club, particularly amongst older supporters, is sometimes referred to as Fartown, named after the ground in Fartown, Huddersfield that was the club's home venue from 1878 to 1992. The club was known as Huddersfield Barracudas from 1984–88 and Huddersfield-Sheffield Giants (after a merger with the original Sheffield Eagles) for the 2000 season.
The team plays in a distinctive strip of a claret shirt with thin gold hoops, claret shorts and claret and gold hooped socks. They have rivalries with Warrington, Leeds, Bradford, Halifax and Wakefield Trinity.
The earliest record of a football match being played in the Huddersfield area is in 1848, when a team of men from Hepworth took on a team of men from Holmfirth near Whnuil Bank in Holmfirth. Hepworth won a close fought game which "exhibited the usual amount of confusions, bloody noses, etc" and took the prize of £5 which had been jointly donated by each side.
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