Radcliffe was a semi-professional rugby league club based in Radcliffe, a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, in Greater Manchester, England.
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The club joined the Northern Union in 1901–02 and played for the single season in the Lancashire Senior Competition, which was effectively Division 2 (West).
History
The club had been founded some years before their single year in the semi-professional ranks. They had been drawn away to Wigan in the first round of the 1897 Challenge Cup, losing by 3 points to nil. The following year they entered the second Challenge Cup competition and lost again in the first round, this time away to Hull F.C. at the Boulevard by 19 points to nil.
At the end of the 1901–02 season, the County Leagues elected 18 teams to join the new Division 2 (7 from Lancashire and 10 from Yorkshire and new member South Shields) with the existing second competition scrapped.
Radcliffe were one of the 4 Yorkshire (Goole, Heckmondwike, Liversedge and Sowerby Bridge) and 2 Lancashire clubs (the other being Altrincham) not elected to the new Division 2, but it is unknown as to what happened to the club. In Cherry and White it is said that the club "disappeared".
Club league record
In the single season in which Radcliffe played semi-professional rugby league, 1901–02, there are few records readily available.
Some of the achievements are as follows:-
Several fixtures and results
The following are just a few of Radcliffe's fixtures during the sole season (and others) in which they played semi-professional rugby league :-