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| Full name | Broughton Park Football Club | |
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| Union | Lancashire RFU | |
| Founded | 1882; 144 years ago (1882)[1] | |
| Location | Chorlton-cum-HardyManchester,England | |
| Ground | Hough End | |
| Chairman | Jim Rochford | |
| Director of Rugby | Alan Marsland | |
| Coach | Graham Higginbotham / Mark Poole | |
| Captain | Patrick O'Donnell | |
| League | North 1 West | |
| 2019–20 | 11th | |
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| Official website | ||
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Broughton Park FC, is one of the oldestrugby union clubs in England and was established in 1882, just one year after theLancashire County Rugby Football Union was founded and eleven years after the formation of the nationalRugby Football Union. The first XV played inCounties 1 ADM Lancashire & Cheshire, a seventh level league in theEnglish league system. The women's team play in the Women's National Challenge 1 a fourth level league in theEnglish league system.
Broughton Park was established in 1882 and despite this early beginning was the thirdBroughton based rugby club, afterBroughton RUFC (1862) andBroughton Rangers (1877). The club was overshadowed in terms of international representation by its two neighbours for the first decade of its existence. In 1919, just after theFirst World War, it started to make a mark on the national scene with A M Crook becoming both the Lancashire Union president and also being elected to the presidency of theRugby Football Union. J E Kidd was elected Lancashire president in 1930 and it was not until the 1960s that Broughton once again came to the fore. The glory days of the club were in the 1960s and 1970s and at one point they fielded four internationals on the pitch.[2] In this period they also had two more Lancashire presidents and in 1981 inJohn Burgess they had a president of theRugby Football Union. Broughton Park were never able to recapture the heights of this period, and in the professional era have not managed to reach the top flight.
The club has had a number of different grounds in its time, mainly in the Salford/Prestwich areas, but also in the south of Manchester. From the 1950's to 2004 the club was based at Chesfield Grove, which had a ground capacity of around 2,000, which included 400 seated.[3][4]
Since 2004 its present new facility is at Hough End inChorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester.Football clubSalford City F.C.'s stadium, Moor Lane, was once the club's home ground. It is located in theKersal Moor area of Salford, close to the boundary withPrestwich.
Originally the club had only one senior side, but now fields four senior sides (3 male and 1 female) and supported by one Colts (U19), four youth (U13-U17) and seven mini (U6-U12) teams; a total involvement of some 330 players each week. Broughton Park F.C. is the City of Manchester's highest placed representative in the Rugby Union Leagues.[5]
