Featherstone Rovers are a professional rugby league club, based in Featherstone , West Yorkshire, England. To many people they are known as Fev or "The Colliers", highlighting the close link between the club and the local mining community. The idea that if they were short of a player or two before match time they would trawl the local collieries to make up the numbers is a myth. Featherstone is a small former coalmining town with a population of around 16,000 and for many years "Fev" have graced the top levels of the game in a manner that belies their small-town background.
Their local rivals are Castleford and Wakefield Trinity.
They have won the Challenge Cup three times, in 1967, 1973 and 1983, and the Championship, in 1977.
Full name |
Featherstone RLFC |
Founded |
1902 |
Nickname |
The Colliers |
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