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Siddal A.R.L.F.C.

English amateur rugby league club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ30588546
Source-derived summary

Siddal are an amateur rugby league football club from Halifax, West Yorkshire. The club currently competes in the NCRL National Premier League. The club also operates a number of academy teams. The club is notable as being the first competitive opponents of Canadian professional club, Toronto Wolfpack, to whom they narrowly lost 14–6 in a match streamed worldwide on the BBC Sports website.

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The public source identifies “Siddal A.R.L.F.C.” as english amateur rugby league club. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Siddal, English and amateur.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 63-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Siddal, English and amateur providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from Siddal A.R.L.F.C.” 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.