Scarborough Pirates
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| Founded | 1991 |
| Discontinued | 1992 |
| Colours | Purple, gold and white |
| Stadium | McCain Stadium McCain Stadium The McCain Stadium was a football stadium located on Seamer Road in Scarborough, England. It was the home of Scarborough FC, a defunct football club who last played in the English Conference North before they were dissolved on 20 June 2007 with debts of £2.5 million.The ground was first opened... (Capacity 6408) |
Scarborough Pirates RLFC were a rugby league
Rugby league
Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
club based in Scarborough, North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan or shire county located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and a ceremonial county primarily in that region but partly in North East England. Created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 it covers an area of , making it the largest...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. They played their home games at Scarborough F.C.
Scarborough F.C.
Scarborough Football Club was an English football club based in the seaside resort of Scarborough, North Yorkshire. They were one of the oldest football clubs in England, formed in 1879, before they were wound up on 20 June 2007, with debts of £2.5 million.In the 2006–07 season...
's McCain Stadium
McCain Stadium
The McCain Stadium was a football stadium located on Seamer Road in Scarborough, England. It was the home of Scarborough FC, a defunct football club who last played in the English Conference North before they were dissolved on 20 June 2007 with debts of £2.5 million.The ground was first opened...
.
History
Scarborough Pirates RLFC were formed in 1991 under Chairman Geoffrey RichmondGeoffrey Richmond
Geoffrey Richmond was a football chairman of Bradford City from 1994 to 2002, and previously chairman of Scarborough.-Biography:Richmond was born and raised in Leeds, where he attended Roundhay Grammar School...
the then Chairman of Scarborough F.C. Leonard "Len" Casey
Len Casey
Len 'Iron Man' Casey is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s, '70s and '80s, and coach of the 1980s and '90s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, and England, and at club level for Hull Kingston Rovers , Bradford Northern, Hull, and Wakefield...
was Head Coach, and Peter Smith
Peter Smith (rugby league)
Peter Smith is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1970s, '80s and '90s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, and England, and at club level for Featherstone Rovers, and Scarborough Pirates, playing at , i.e...
was the captain.
Scarborough played their first competitive game on Sunday 25 August 1991 away to Doncaster in a Yorkshire Cup
Rugby league county cups
Historically, British rugby league clubs competed for the Lancashire Cup and the Yorkshire Cup, known collectively as the county cups. The leading rugby clubs in Yorkshire had played in a cup competition for several years prior to the schism of 1895...
preliminary round match. Scarborough won 14-10 in front of 1,080 spectators.
Scarborough started the season well and finished ninth in the newly formed fourteen-club Third Division with ten wins and fourteen defeats. However, attendances at the McCain Stadium
McCain Stadium
The McCain Stadium was a football stadium located on Seamer Road in Scarborough, England. It was the home of Scarborough FC, a defunct football club who last played in the English Conference North before they were dissolved on 20 June 2007 with debts of £2.5 million.The ground was first opened...
were poor; with only four of their fourteen home matches attracting crowds of over 1,000. Richmond disbanded the club after just one season citing a lack of local interest.
Notable former players
- Brendan Carlyle (to Hull 1992)
- Leonard "Len" CaseyLen CaseyLen 'Iron Man' Casey is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s, '70s and '80s, and coach of the 1980s and '90s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, and England, and at club level for Hull Kingston Rovers , Bradford Northern, Hull, and Wakefield...
- Richard Fairbank
- Gary PearceGary Pearce (rugby)Peter Gary Pearce is a Welsh former director of rugby at Hull RUFC , and dual-code international rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and '90s who at representative level has played rugby union for Wales, and at club level for Laugharne RFC, Bridgend RFC, and Llanelli...
- Peter SmithPeter Smith (rugby league)Peter Smith is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1970s, '80s and '90s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, and England, and at club level for Featherstone Rovers, and Scarborough Pirates, playing at , i.e...