Pennine League

Infobox sports league
current_season =
logo=Pennine league logo.png pixels = 200px
caption = Pennine League logo
sport=Rugby league
founded=1974
teams=80
country=ENG
champion=Halifax Irish
TV =
website = [http://www.pennineleague.co.uk/ pennineleague.co.uk] The Pennine Amateur Rugby League, or Pennine League is a rugby league competition for amateur open-age clubs that runs from September to April. The clubs are drawn from West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and the east of Lancashire.

The league is run by the British Amateur Rugby League Association (BARLA). Teams from the Pennine League can apply for election to the National Conference League if they meet minimum criteria.

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As of 2006-2007, there are eighty-two teams organised into seven divisions and there are also three cup competitions : The Pennine Presidents Cup (for Premier Division and Division One teams); The Andrew Bennett Memorial Trophy (for Division Two, Three and Four teams) and The Pennine Supplementary Cup (for Division Five and Six teams).

The current league structure is as follows:-

Premier Division Clayton Drighlington Elland Halifax Irish Keighley Albion St Josephs Keighley Town New Earswick All Blacks Queensbury Sharlston Rovers	Division One Birkenshaw Crigglestone All Blacks Dodworth Greetland All Rounders Illingworth Kippax Welfare Moldgreen Park Amateurs St Josephs Thornhill Trojans A Victoria Rangers Westgate Redoubt	Division Two Ackworth Jaguars Boothtown Terriers Calder Valley Dearne Valley Bulldogs Dudley Hill A * Emley Moor Morley Borough Newsome Panthers Odsal Sedbergh Ovenden A Stanningley A West Bowling A	Division Three Bank Top Harriers Elland A Hoyland Vikings Lindley Swifts Littleborough Queensbury A Rotherham Roosters Selby Warriors Silsden Park Rangers Undercliffe Wyke York Acorn A
Division Four Brighouse Rangers A Drighlington A * Hollinwood Liversedge Meltham All Blacks Sharlston Rovers A Slaithwaite Saracens Stainland Stags Underbank Rangers Wetherby Bulldogs Whitehall Warriors Wortley Dragons	Division Five Clayton A Guiseley Rangers Halifax Irish A Keighley Town A Moldgreen A Park Amateurs A * Sheffield Hillsborough Hawks Siddal B Thornton West Craven Warriors Woodhouse Warriors York Groves	Division Six Cowling Harlequins Greetland All Rounders A Grimethorpe Harehills Hoyland Vikings A Keighley Albion A Slaithwaite A St Josephs A West Leeds Whitworth Spartans Wibsey Warriors Wyke A

* failed to complete season

ee also

* British Amateur Rugby League Association
* British rugby league system
* National Conference League
* North West Counties
* CMS Yorkshire league
* Cumberland League
* Hull & District League
* Barrow & District League

External links

* [http://www.pennineleague.co.uk Official website - latest results and tables]
* [http://www.barla.org.uk BARLA Official Website]