St Helens R.F.C.
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| Full name | St Helens Rugby Football Club |
| Nickname(s) | The Saints The Red V |
| Short name | St Helens |
| Website | saintsrlfc.com |
| Colours |
 White and Red |
| Founded | 1873 |
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| Chairman | Eamonn McManus |
| Coach | Keiron Cunningham |
| Captain | Jon Wilkin |
| Competition | Super League |
| 2016 season | 4th |
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| Records | |
| Championships | 13 (1932, 1953, 1959, 1966, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2014) |
| Challenge Cups | 12 (1956, 1961, 1966, 1972, 1976, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008) |
| World Club Challenges | 2 (2001, 2007) |
| Other honours | 34 |
| Most capped | 531 - Kel Coslett |
| Highest points scorer | 3,413 - Kel Coslett |
St Helens Rugby Football Club is a professional rugby league club in St Helens, Merseyside currently competing in the Super League, the top tier of competition for rugby league in Europe. St Helens are founding members of the Super League and are one of only four teams to have appeared in every season since its creation in 1996.
Formed in 1873, St Helens are one of the 22 original members of the Northern Rugby Football Union and have been league champions on 13 occasions. St Helens are also the third most successful side in the Challenge Cup with 12 wins in 21 Final appearances.
Since 1961 the club's home colours have been white, with a red "V" on the jersey. St Helens play their home games at the Totally Wicked Stadium in St Helens, having moved from their previous home, Knowsley Road, in 2012.
St Helens are one of the oldest members of the Rugby Football League. Founded as St Helens Football Club on 19 November 1873 at the Fleece Hotel by William Douglas Herman, they played their first ever match on 31 January 1874 against Liverpool Royal Infirmary. They became known as St Helens Rangers up until the 1880s. The club moved from the City Ground in 1890 where they had shared with St Helens Recs when neither were members of the Northern Rugby Football Union. They defeated Manchester Rangers in the first match played at Knowsley Road.
In 1895 the club were one of 22 clubs that resigned from the Rugby Football Union and established the Northern Union. The first match of the new code was an 8—3 win at home to Rochdale Hornets before 3,000 spectators, Bob Doherty scoring St Helens' first try. They played in a vertically striped blue and white jersey—a stark contrast to the well known broad red band which would become the kit for the club later. The club reverted to this kit for one season during the rugby league centenary season in 1995.
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