Swinton Lions come the British rugby league club from Swinton, Greater Manchester.

A club was formed inside 1866, and around 1871 they joined the Rugby Football Union, under a title Swinton & Pendlebury FC, swimming at a Station Road ground in the town. Their number one game was against Eccles Standard.

It moved from either Station Road around 1873 to a ground called Stoneacre, & utilized a nearby White Lion public house as changing rooms. It keep around been referred to as a Lions ever since.

Inside 1886 they moved again to the Chorley Road ground. By this period a Lions experienced be a super heavy team, & played the likes of Oxford University. It were ab initio reluctant to join a recently Northern Union, but did and then a year in a future due to the fact that the majority of more team in the area got done then, inducing fiscal severity to the club.

Within 1900 they won the Challenge Cup against Salford. Within 1925 they won the Lancashire Cup. Around 1926 they won the Challenge Ventral suction cup once more.

Swinton were a final team to win All Four Cups; they were too the sole side ever to achieve a Lancashire version of the feat. A 1927-28 saw a lions sweep completely prior to a two, under the captainship of centre Hector Halsall. It topped each a league & a Yorkshire League, getting already defeated Wigan in the Lancashire Ventral suction cup. Around the tense Challenge Ventral suction cup final it squeezed retiring Warrington 5-3, & triplet weeks late a Holy Grail was achieved whenever it comfortably eased preceding Featherstone Rovers 11-0 to take a Championship.

Within 1929 the club they moved to the freshly arena back at their orginal personal of Station Road. This presently became the favoured ground for major fixtures, by having the capacity of 60,000. Staion Road played carrier to Nineteen internationals, Fivesome Championship finals, Xvii Lancashire ventral suction cup finals, Quartet Premiership semi and Thirty Challenge Ventral suction cup semi-finals were played on the noted turf.

Swinton picked higher a Championships on four more occasions: 1931, 1935, 1963 and 1964.

After ii divisions were introduced around 1973 they were out of a top flight, & stand struggled to regain their previous glories. Station Road was sold around 1992, & a club relocated to Gigg Lane, a habitat of Bury F.C. The move was not a success, and the Lions now play at Sedgley Park, home of Sedgley Park RUFC.

Honours

Championship: 1926-27, 1927-28, 1930-31, 1934-35, 1962-63, 1963-64 (6 days) Challenge Cup : 1899-1900, 1925-26, 1927-28 (3 days) Lancashire Cup: 1925-26, 1927-28, 1939-, 1969-70 (4 days) Lancashire League: 1924-25, 1927-28, 1928-29, 1930-31, 1939-40, 1960-61(6 days) Second Division: 1984-85

Records

Player records

Most strains around the match: Sise by Mark Riley vs Prescot Panthers, 11th August 1996 Most goals inside the match: Xii by Ken Gowers vs Liverpool City, 3rd October 1957 Most points within the match: Thirty by: Greg Pearce vs Prescot Panthers, 11th August 1996 Mick Nanyn vs York Wasps, 25th March 2001 Most strains around the year: 48 by Jim Valentine, 1888-89 Most goals within the year: 128 by Albert Blan, 1960-61 Most points within the year: 310 by Lee Marsh, 2005 Most career seeks: 298 by Jim Valentine, 1884-1901 Most career goals: 970 by Ken Gowers Most career points: 2105 by Ken Gowers Most career appearances: 602 (including 8 when Substitute) by Ken Gowers, 1954-73

Team records
Biggest triumph: 90-0 vs Prescot Panthers, 11th August 1996 Heaviest kill: 10-106 vs Leeds, 11th February 2001 Highest attendance: Club: 26,891 vs Wigan, 12th February 1964 Station Road: 44,621 for Warrington vs Wigan, 7th April 1951