Rugby Union Clubs
Sedgley Park Rugby Union Football Club
Park Lane
Whitefield
Manchester
M45 7DZ | map
Greater Manchester
Tel: 0161 766 5050
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Sedgley Park Rugby Union Football Club was founded in 1932 and is based in Whitefield, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury in Greater Manchester. The club was founded following a meeting at a bar in Sedgley Park, a district of Manchester which lies about two miles north of the city centre. The club has always played at Whitefield, however, and has never actually been based at Sedgley Park.
The clubs early facilities were primitive. They had cowsheds for changing rooms and a farm pump for washing after the game. Despite this, the club thrived and soon built a proper clubhouse. Sedgley Park moved to its current home at Park Lane in Whitefield in 1955. The team built up much respect but its reputation for muddy pitches kept it off the fixture list of some of the more illustrious teams!
When the English League structure first began in 1987, Sedgley Park were in eighth tier of the English League system but were promoted to the seventh tier at the end of the first season. It was not until the mid-nineties, when the professional era was opened up, that Sedgley Park began to improve on this performance. Three successive promotions then set the team back on its way and in 2004 and, following two further promotions, Sedgley reached National League Division One.
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