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Conor Fitzsimmons

English rugby league footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ24572681 ↗
Source-derived summary

Conor Fitzsimmons (born 7 May 1998) is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a second-row or loose forward for the Sheffield Eagles in RFL Championship.

Playing career

Castleford Tigers

Fitzsimmons commenced his top-level playing career in the 2016 Super League season with Castleford.

Newcastle Thunder

In November 2017 he signed for Newcastle. He has previously played for English Super League club Castleford and spent the 2017 season on loan with Workington Town.

Workington Town

Fitzsimmons signed for Workington Town for the 2020 season and was named their 'Player of the Year' in 2022.

York City Knights

In October 2022, he joined the York RLFC on a two-year deal.

Sheffield Eagles

On 14 October 2025 it was reported that he had joined Sheffield Eagles on a two-year deal.

Editorial summary

“Conor Fitzsimmons” enters the record as english rugby league footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Conor, Fitzsimmons and English can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 2016, 2017, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998-05-07. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Conor, Fitzsimmons and English.
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“Conor Fitzsimmons” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Conor, Fitzsimmons and English provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 31, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q24572681. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998, 2016, 2017 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Conor Fitzsimmons” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.