Bradford Bulls
Bradford Bulls[1] are an English rugby league club based in the town of Bradford, Yorkshire. They are current members of the professional top-flight European competition, the Engage Super League.[2]
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History
The Bradford Rugby Club was formed in 1863 and they moved to Park Avenue 1880.
In 1895 Leeds joined twenty-one other clubs in the breakaway Northern Rugby Football Union following a meeting of clubs at The George Hotel, Huddersfield. Although full-time professionalism was illegal players were allowed broken time payments of up to a maximum of six shillings per day for loss of earnings through playing rugby and reducing the number of players from fifteen to thirteen. Some other changes were made in an attempt to make the game more interesting for spectators but the use of a round ball was eventually dropped after some trial games.
The dominance of the Northern Rugby Union in Bradford did not last however, when Manningham switched to soccer and became Bradford City FC. In 1907 the club voted to leave the Northern Union and start to play soccer, forming Bradford Park Avenue A.F.C.. A new team were formed in the place of Bradford Rugby; Bradford Northern.
In 1995, with the formation of Super League, Bradford Northern renamed themselves Bradford Bulls, and a new period of success began.
The Bulls play at the Gratton Stadium, commonly known as the Osdal.
Honors
Championship
- 1903-04
- 1979-80
- 1980-81
Super League[3]
- 1997
- 2001
- 2003
- 2005
Challenge Cup
- 1905-06
- 1943-44
- 1946-47
- 1948-49
- 2000
- 2003
World Club Challenge
- 2002
- 2004
- 2006
Premiership
- 1977-78
Yorkshire Cup
- 1906-07
- 1940-41
- 1941-42
- 1943-44
- 1945-46
- 1948-49
- 1949-50
- 1953-54
- 1965-66
- 1978-79
- 1987-88
- 1989-90
Yorkshire League
- 1899-1900
- 1900-01
- 1939-40
- 1940-41
- 1947-48
Regal Trophy
- 1974-75
- 1979-80
