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York City Knights Rugby League Club is a British professional rugby league club hailing from York. They play at the Huntington Stadium, situated to the north of York city centre. They currently play in the Championship, after winning promotion in the 2010 Championship One play-offs.
History
Early years
York Football Club was formed in 1868, for the first few seasons they had portable goal posts as they did not have their own ground and would play wherever they could find a pitch. Eventually a permanent pitch was secured on Knavesmire.It took three years for the club to record their first victory, and that was in an association football match against York Training College. Results picked up in the mid 1870s as the club attracted a higher standard of player. In 1877, York were among several leading Yorkshire clubs who inaugurated the Yorkshire Challenge Cup. In the first season 16 teams battled it out for the T'owd Tin Pot, with York eventually losing out to Halifax in the final.
Financial problems in the early 1880s forced the club out of the Yorkshire Gentlemen's Ground in Wigginton Road and in 1883 the club amalgamated with York Melbourne Club.
After playing on Poad's Fields for a short time, the York Lunatic Asylum leased the club a plot of land at the end of the Clarence Street in 1885. The first game at the new site was between a York XV and 20 players from the city.
The club made great strides with the team of 1895, which won virtually all their home matches. Off the field the club paid £85 for the Waterman's Mission Hut in Fishergate and converted it into their first grandstand, incorporating dressing rooms.
Northern Union
There were also changes on a wider scale as northern teams broke away from the Rugby Football Union to form their own Northern Union. York initially stayed with the Rugby Football Union but as the better clubs began to join the new order, it became a financial necessity to follow suit. The decision to join the Northern Union was taken at a meeting at the Bar Hotel, Micklegate, on Monday, April 25, 1898 and five days later they played their first Northern Union match against Hull KR losing 29-2.The York club was first admitted to the Rugby Football League in 1901. In 1902/03 The Lancashire and Yorkshire leagues were combined to form a second division. York was one of the new teams to join the second division. After World War I, they became known as "the Dreadnoughts". They beat the visiting Australasian team of the 1921-22 Kangaroo tour 9-3.
York's best moment came in 1931 when they reached the Challenge Cup Final for the first time, only to be beaten 22-8 by Halifax.
10 Feb 1934, the York's record attendance was set when 14,689 turned up to watch a Challenge Cup match against Swinton, which ended in a 0-0 draw. In 1933/34 York beat Hull Kingston Rovers 10-4 in the Yorkshire Cup final.
York team lifted the Division Two title in 1980-81, finishing above big-guns Wigan and big-spending Fulham beating Hunslet 53-7 to guarantee themselves the title with two games to spare.
Financial problems forced the club to sell their training pitch for £200,000 in 1986. Three years later faced with a large bill for safety work, the rest of the stadium was sold to a housing developer for £705,000, less than half what the ground was worth. York's last match at Clarence Street produced a 26-17 victory over Hunslet in front of a crowd of 2,904 spectators. When plans to ground share with York City F.C. broke down, York moved to the Huntington Stadium (originally Ryedale Stadium) two miles to the north of the city at Monk's Cross. As the stadium was financed by Ryedale District Council the club became known as Ryedale-York.
Huntington/Ryedale Stadium's record attendance for a rugby league match was set on 5 Jan 1990 when 4,977 turned up to watch a division two match against Halifax.
In 1991, York and Fulham toured Russia. An act that caused many Russian rugby union clubs to switch to rugby league.
York Wasps
Following the move to summer rugby in 1996, the club was renamed York Wasps.York won one game in the Northern Ford Premiership in 2000 and finished the campaign with a team of amateurs after almost folding. Lee Crooks took over as coach in August 2000. They attracted sponsorship from the New York Economic Development Council for the 2001 season.
York made an approach to Virgin to buy the London Broncos in August 2001 and form a merged club under a new name, York Wasps Ltd, to play in Super League.
On 19 March 2002, after completing 11 games, York Wasps announced that they had folded. After a last-ditch take-over deal to save the Wasps collapses, the RFL accept the club’s resignation on 26 March.
A supporters’ trust working party was formed on 27 March and applied to the RFL to continue the 2002 Northern Ford Premiership fixtures. After hearing it would be impossible to meet requirements to return that season, on 5 May fans backed new proposals for a new club to apply for admittance to the league for 2003.
The RFL accepted York's bid to play in the newly-formed National League Two on condition that they had £75,000 in the bank by August 31. York RL decided that the best way to raise cash was through a fans’ membership scheme. Former Great Britain star Paul Broadbent was revealed as prospective player-coach. With the total standing at £70,000, John Smith’s brewery came in with £5,000 as the club hit the target just hours before the deadline.
York City Knights
The full name of the new club was revealed to be York City Knights RLFC, following a competition in the Evening Press. John Guildford, majority shareholder of York building firm Guildford Construction, was revealed to be the majority shareholder. Richard Agar was appointed head coach. The Knights played their first game at home against Hull KR in the National League Cup on January 19.In their first year, the Knights made the National League Two play-offs. The following year they were narrowly beaten in the play-off final by Halifax. Agar left York to join Hull as an assistant coach.
York City Knights appointed Michael "Mick" Cook as their new head coach in 2005 as part of a partnership with Super League club Leeds Rhinos., they were champions and promoted automatically in his first year as Knights coach. As well as gaining promotion to National League One, 2005 saw the club reach the fifth round of the Challenge Cup, as well as having the highest crowd average for National League Two teams, of 1,986. Yorks's game against Hunslet on the 25th of May 2005 drew a crowd of 3,224 which was a record for National League Two.
Despite a good late run of form, York were relegated back to National League Two in 2006. However, it is to be hoped that their squad can be retained and a challenge for promotion back to National League One can be produced. They did however, win the Fairfax Cup, after beating Batley 14-10 in their first appearance in the York International 9s.
Mick Cook quit as coach in order to run his business. Paul March was appointed player-coach on a one-year rolling contract in September 2007, however was sacked in July 2009 due to disciplinary matters and then director of rugby James Ratcliffe has since taken over.
On 26 September 2010, the Knights won the Co-operative Championship League 1 Play-Off Grand Final to earn promotion to the Championship. They beat Oldham Roughyeds 25-6 at the Haliwell Jones Stadium in Warrington. The Knights had finished the regular season 13 points behind their final opponents.
Honours
2011 Squad
York City Knights 2011 Squad{| style="width:90%;" |- style="background:#d0e7ff;" !width=5%|No !width=5%|Nat !!width=20%|Player !width=20%|Position !width=25%|Former Club |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|1 |align=center| |James Haynes |align=center|Full Back |align=center|Dewsbury Rams |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|2 |align=center| |Dave Sutton |align=center|Wing |align=center|York City Knights |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|3 |align=center| |Duane Straugheir |align=center|Centre |align=center|Bradford Bulls |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|4 |align=center| |Lee Waterman |align=center|Centre |align=center| |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|5 |align=center| |Danny Wilson (rugby player) |align=center|Wing |align=center| |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|6 |align=center| |Chris Thorman |align=center|Stand Off |align=center|Huddersfield Giants |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|7 |align=center| |Jonny Presley |align=center|Half Back |align=center|Keighley Cougars |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|8 |align=center| |Nathan Freer |align=center|Prop |align=center|Hull |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|9 |align=center| |Jack Lee |align=center|Hooker |align=center| |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|10 |align=center| |Alex Benson |align=center|Prop |align=center| |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|11 |align=center| |Rhys Clarke |align=center|Second Row |align=center|Gateshead Thunder |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|12 |align=center| |Matt Barron |align=center|Second Row |align=center|Gateshead Thunder |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|13 |align=center| |Ryan Esders |align=center|Loose Forward |align=center|Hull KR |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|14 |align=center| |Jack Stearman |align=center|Prop |align=center| |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|15 |align=center| |Brett Waller |align=center|Hooker |align=center| |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|16 |align=center| |Mike Mitchell |align=center|Prop |align=center| |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|17 |align=center| |Ian Bell |align=center|Second Row |align=center|Featherstone Rovers |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|18 |align=center| |Sam Lynch |align=center|Centre |align=center| |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|19 |align=center| |Matt Garside |align=center|Second Row |align=center| |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|20 |align=center| |Tom Bush |align=center|Wing |align=center|Leeds Rhinos |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|21 |align=center| |Dennis Tuffour |align=center|Full Back |align=center|Hull |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|22 |align=center| |Ed Smith |align=center|Half Back |align=center| |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|23 |align=center| |Paul Stamp |align=center|Stand Off |align=center| |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|24 |align=center| |Mark Barlow |align=center|Loose Forward |align=center| |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|25 |align=center| |Steve Lewis |align=center|Second Row |align=center| |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|26 |align=center| |Davey Burns |align=center|Hooker |align=center| |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|27 |align=center| |Anthony Thackeray |align=center|Stand Off |align=center|Widnes Vikings - On Loan |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|28 |align=center| |Chris Williams |align=center|Wing |align=center| |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|29 |align=center| |James Ford |align=center|Centre |align=center|Widnes Vikings - On Loan |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|30 |align=center| |Jordan Rice |align=center|Full Back |align=center| |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|31 |align=center| |John Davies |align=center|Loose Forward |align=center| |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|32 |align=center| |Jack Aldous |align=center|Prop |align=center|Hull FC - Dual Reg |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|33 |align=center| |Tom Holmes |align=center|Prop |align=center| |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|34 |align=center| |Adam Howard |align=center|Centre |align=center|York City Knights |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|35 |align=center| |Tom Lineham |align=center|Centre |align=center| |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|36 |align=center| |Joe Dey |align=center|Prop |align=center| |- style="background:#fff;" |align=center|37 |align=center| |Ben Jones |align=center|Prop |align=center|Harlequins RL |}
Non Numbered
Players earning International Caps while at York
Other Notable Players
Records
Tries: 6 by Jonny Presley at home to Northumbria University, 6 March 2011 (Tries: all time York RL record: 7 by Brad Davis v Highfield 17 Sep 1995)
Points: 56 by Chris Thorman at home to Northumbria University, 6 March 2011 - 4 tries and 20 goals (Points: all time York RL record: 56 by Chris Thorman at home to Northumbria University, 6 March 2011 - 4 tries and 20 goals)
References
Sources
External links
Category:British rugby league teams Category:Sport in York Category:Sport in North Yorkshire Category:1868 establishments in England
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