Halifax Panthers
The Halifax Panthers are a professional rugby league club in Halifax, West Yorkshire, which formed in 1873.
Halifax were one of the original twenty-two rugby clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895. They have been Rugby League Champions four times and have won the Challenge Cup five
Halifax Panthers were last Yorkshire team to win at Wembley, before Sheffield in 1998 and were the last Yorkshire team to finish top of Division One, achieved in 1985-86, before Bradford Bulls in 1997, the club were also the first winners of the John Player Trophy Special/Regal Trophy in 1972.
The club moved into their previous home of Thrum Hall in 1886 they stayed there for the next 112 years until the move in 1998 to the re-developed ‘Shay Stadium’ to ground-share with local footballing neighbours, Halifax Town AFC.
