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Castleford Tigers Rugby League Football Club^[1]^[2] are an English rugby league club based in the town of Castleford, West Yorkshire. They are current members of the professional top-flight European competition, the Engage Super League^[3].

History

The club was founded in 1926 as Castleford RLFC and added "Tigers" to their name for the 1992/2 season. Their home ground is known as "The Jungle" after a former commercial sponsor (Jungle.com) but was previously known by it's street location of "Wheldon Road". The club's current sponsor is the catlog-retailer Argos. The club are sometimes known as 'Cas', 'Cas Tigers' or 'Classy Cas'.

The club was relegated from the Super League in 2006 but regained admission for the 2008 season.

Honors

Challenge Cup Winners

1935
1969
1970
1986

Super League

Best position: 5th (2000)

Notes & references

[1] Castleford Tigers official site

[2] Super League: Castleford Tigers

[3] Super League official web site

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