Cumbria Rugby League

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Cumbria Rugby League[1] is a series of summer rugby league competitions for amateur teams in Cumbria.

Cumbria Rugby League is part of the Rugby Football League and incorporates what is now called the "Iggesund Cumberland ARL" which has existed since 1899 and one of the few competitions that predates any attempt to organise the amateur game. Along with the Cumberland ARL, Cumbria Rugby League also runs the Barrow and District Leagues (open age and youth) along with the West Cumbria Youth League.[2] The leagues are jointly administered with the British Amateur Rugby League Association.[3]

Cumbria Rugby League itself was formed during the Rugby Football League's 2012 restructuring of amateur rugby league in Great Britain.

## History

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The Cumberland League has been in existence, in one form or another, since 1899.  Millom, in 1897, was the first club in the county to defect from rugby union to Northern Union, they were followed a year later by Workington, Maryport, Whitehaven, Seaton, Brookland Rovers and Wath Brow. The first three named joined with Lancaster and the Furness clubs Barrow, Dalton and Askam to form the North Western League in 1898/99. The first champions were Millom who finished just ahead of Barrow.

On 10 May 1899 the Cumberland clubs met at the Grapes Hotel in Workington and agreed to form a Cumberland Senior League for the following season. They voted W.E. Mason (Whitehaven) to chair the new competition and R. Nixon (Maryport) was elected Hon. Secretary.

The participants in that first season, 1899/1900, were Brookland Rovers, Maryport, Seaton, Whitehaven, Whitehaven Rec and Workington.

In 2024, suggestions were made that the league could return to winter due to a number of fixtures cancellations caused by clubs being unable to field teams in the summer months.[4]

## Iggesund Cumberland ARL

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### Premier Division

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Year  | League Leaders  | Play Off Final

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Winner  | Result  | Runner-up
1899/1900  | Maryport  |  |  |
1900/01  | Maryport  |  |  |
1901/02  | Seaton  | Seaton  | 5-3  | Whitehaven Rec
1902/03  | Maryport  | Maryport  | 18-0  | Seaton
1903/04  | Maryport  | Not played  |  |
1904/05  | Parton  | Parton  | 0-0

5-2

| Brookland Rovers
1905/06  | Whitehaven Rec  |  |  |
1906/07  | Millom | Workington  | 25-3  | Millom
1907/08  | Workington  | Workington  | WO  | Whitehaven Rec
1908/09  | Workington  | Workington  | 6-5  | Egremont
1909/10  | Broughton Moor  | Broughton Moor  | 8-0  | Brookland Rovers
1910/11  | Broughton Moor  | Brookland Rovers  | 2-0  | Broughton Moor
1911/12  | Seaton  | Seaton  | 10-5  | Brookland Rovers
1912/13  | Seaton  | Seaton  | 29-0  | Fothergill United
1913/14  | Seaton  | Seaton  | 23-3  | Broughton Moor
1914/15  | Cancelled due to the First World War
1915/16
1916/17
1917/18
1918/19
1919/20  | Brookland Rovers  | Brookland Rovers  | 7-5  | Broughton Moor
1920/21  |  | Dearham Wanderers  | 14-4  | Seaton
1921/22  | Broughton Moor  | Broughton Moor  | 7-5  | Wath Brow Hornets
1922/23  | Brookland Rovers  | Brookland Rovers  | 2-0  | Aspatria Hornets
1923/24  |  | Glasson Rangers  | 5-3  | Flimby & Fothergill Utd
1924/25  |  | Brookland Rovers  | 3-0  | Flimby & Fothergill Utd
1925/26  | Hensingham | Hensingham | vs.  | Dearham/Brookland
1926/27  | Dearham Wanderers  | Dearham Wanderers  | 11-0  | Brookland Rovers
1927/28  | Dearham Wanderers  | Dearham Wanderers  | 20-0  | Whitehaven Rec
1928/29  | Whitehaven Rec  | Glasson Rangers  | 2-0  | Whitehaven Rec
1929/30  | Great Clifton  | Glasson Rangers  | 12-5  | Great Clifton
1930/31  | Great Clifton  | Egremont Rangers | 5-2  | Great Clifton
1931/32  | Glasson Rangers  | Glasson Rangers  | 2-0  | Flimby
1932/33  | Flimby  | Flimby  | 4-0  | Great Clifton
1933/34  | Dearham Wanderers  | Dearham Wanderers  | 5-2  | Kells
1934/35  | Kells  | Flimby  | 6-0  | Kells
1935/36  | Glasson Rangers  | Glasson Rangers  | 11-3  | Maryport
1936/37  |  | Netherton  | 6-0  | Broughton
1937/38  |  | Glasson Rangers  | 21-0  | Maryport
1938/39  | Glasson Rangers  | Glasson Rangers  |  |
1939/40  | Cancelled due to the Second World War
1940/41
1941/42
1942/43
1943/44
1944/45
1945/46  |  |  |  |
1946/47  |  |  |  |
1947/48  |  |  |  |
1948/49  |  |  |  |
1949/50  |  |  |  |
1950/51  |  |  |  |
1951/52  |  |  |  |
1952/53  |  |  |  |
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1954/55  |  |  |  |
1955/56  |  |  |  |
1956/57  |  |  |  |
1957/58  |  |  |  |
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1959/60  |  |  |  |
1960/61  |  |  |  |
1961/62  |  |  |  |
1962/63  |  |  |  |
1963/64  |  |  |  |
1964/65  |  |  |  |
1965/66  |  |  |  |
1966/67  |  |  |  |
1967/68  |  |  |  |
1968/69  |  |  |  |
1969/70  |  |  |  |
1970/71  |  |  |  |
1971/72  |  |  |  |
1972/73  |  |  |  |
1973/74  | Seaton Rangers  |  |  |
1974/75  | Maryport  | Maryport  |  |
1975/76  | Wath Brow Hornets |  |  |
1976/77  | Wath Brow Hornets |  |  |
1977/78  |  |  |  |
1978/79  | Lowca  | Ellenborough Rangers  | 14-0  | Lowca
1979/80  | Lowca  |  |  |
1980/81  |  |  |  |
1981/82  | Kells  | Glasson Rangers  |  |
1982/83  |  | Kells  | 12-8  | Lowca
1983/84  | Great Clifton Lions  | Egremont Rangers | def.  | Great Clifton Lions
1984/85  | Egremont Rangers |  |  |
1985/86  |  |  |  |
1986/87  |  |  |  |
1987/88  |  |  |  |
1988/89  | Hensingham  |  |  |
1989/90  | Kells  |  |  |
1990/91  | Ellenborough Rangers  |  |  |
1991/92  | Ellenborough Rangers  |  |  |
1992/93  | Ellenborough Rangers  |  |  |
1993/94  | Hensingham |  |  |
1994/95  | Hensingham | Ellenborough Rangers  | def.  | Hensingham
1995/96  | Hensingham | Wath Brow Hornets |  |
1996/97  | Westfield  | Ellenborough Rangers  | def.  | Westfield
1997/98  | Wath Brow Hornets  | Ellenborough Rangers  | 22-6  | Wath Brow Hornets
1998/99  | Ellenborough Rangers  | Ellenborough Rangers  | 28-12  | Wath Brow Hornets
1999/2000  | Wath Brow Hornets | Hensingham | 29-16  | Wath Brow Hornets
2000/01  | Wath Brow Hornets | Wath Brow Hornets | 28-18  | Ellenborough Rangers
2001/02  | Wath Brow Hornets | Wath Brow Hornets |  |
2002/03  | Hensingham | Hensingham |  |
2003/04  | Hensingham | Seaton Rangers  | def.  | Hensingham
2004/05  | Seaton Rangers  | Kells  | 52-10  | Egremont Rangers
2005/06  | Seaton Rangers  | Seaton Rangers  | def.  |
2006/07  | Seaton Rangers  |  |  |
2007/08  | Ellenborough Rangers  |  |  |
2008/09  | Kells  |  |  |
2009/10  |  |  |  |
2010/11  |  |  |  |
2012  | Kells  |  |  |
2013  |  |  |  |
2014  |  |  |  |
2015  |  |  |  |
2016  |  |  |  |
2017  |  |  |  |
2018  |  |  |  |
2019  | Distington[5][6] |  |  |
2020  | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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2022  |  |  |  |
2023  |  |  |  |
2024  |  |  |  |

### Division One

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Year  | League Leaders  | Play Off Final

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Winner  | Result  | Runner-up

## Cumbria Men's League

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In 2013, a short lived "Cumbria Men's League" was created for the higher performing teams of the Cumberland ARL competition. Winners are:

* 2013: Walney Central
* 2014: Walney Central
* 2015: Walney Central
* 2016: Distington ARLFC
* 2017: Hensingham ARLFC[7]

The competition ceased following the 2017 season.[8]

## See also

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* Cumbria portal

* British Amateur Rugby League Association
* British rugby league system
* BARLA Cumbria Cup

## References

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1. ^ "Competitions".
2. ^ "Player Stats".
3. ^ "District Leagues".
4. ^ https://cumbriacrack.com/2024/08/09/more-rugby-league-games-called-off-this-weekend/ [bare URL]
5. ^ "Defending champions Distington in form against Glasson". 5 September 2021.
6. ^ "Action beginning to heat up before Iggesund Cumberland League shuts down". 17 March 2020.
7. ^ "Hensingham clinch Cumbria Men's League title after beating defending champions Distington". News and Star. 21 August 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
8. ^ "The Iggesund Cumberland Amateur Rugby League to get under way with a new-look this weekend". 2 March 2018.

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