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Oldham produced their best performance of the season to thrash title rivals Keighley 44-6 in front of a huge crowd at Boundary Park to move three points clear at the top of Betfred League 1.
Date Published 22/07/2024
Oldham RLFC 1876 have announced a new 10-year deal that will see the Roughyeds play their rugby at Boundary Park until at least 2034.
Date Published 19/07/2024
New boy Kieran Dixon scored two tries on his debut as Oldham dismissed a dogged North Wales 32-6 to go back to the top of Betfred League 1.
Date Published 13/07/2024
Oldham have signed winger Kieran Dixon.
Date Published 10/07/2024
All of the remaining Sundays in July will be vitally important in the Roughyeds' quest to finish top of League 1 and go up automatically.
Date Published 05/07/2024
Cian Tyrer - the leading try-scorer across all top three tiers of British rugby league - has agreed a new contract with Oldham until the end of the 2025 season.
Nine local teenage prospects have been given the chance to train with the Roughyeds’ rugby league first team until the end of the season, as the club underlines its commitment to...
Date Published 03/07/2024
Top try-scorer Cian Tyrer scored his third hat-trick of the season as Oldham returned to Boundary Park with a 30-6 win over Hunslet to stay top of Betfred League 1.
Date Published 01/07/2024
Oldham maintained their position as leaders of League 1 with centre Ben O’Keefe scoring two tries in a hard-fought 28-4 win at Workington.
Date Published 24/06/2024
Joe Wardle comes into Sean Long’s Oldham squad which will travel to Workington Town for Sunday’s clash in West Cumbria (3pm kick off).
Date Published 21/06/2024
Pat Moran scored a hat-trick on his Oldham comeback as the Roughyeds returned to form in style with a 60-6 win at struggling Newcastle to return to the top of League 1.
Date Published 17/06/2024
The Roughyeds have signed Oldham-born centre Nathan Roebuck on a deal until the end of the season, with the 24-year-old in contention for an immediate debut away at Newcastle in...
Date Published 14/06/2024
Kingfisher Learning Trust, which operates six schools across Oldham, has launched its own educational initiative to get children involved with Oldham RLFC's recently-announced...
Oldham Rugby League Football Club has announced it is set to play host to one of the biggest-ever community performance events in the history of either code of rugby.
Date Published 12/06/2024
Nathan Murgatroyd has retired as the man in the Roary costume at Oldham Roughyeds' rugby league matches, after performing brilliantly for about 15 years.
Date Published 11/06/2024
Bill Quinn (chairman), Mike Ford (managing director), and Jim Minton (financial director) will represent Oldham RLFC when they take part in the YEDS’ sponsored walk from Boundary...
Date Published 10/06/2024
Oldham RLFC have announced the launch of Roughyeds Driving Academy, the club’s own driving school aiming to offer fully-funded driving lessons to the Oldham community in...
Date Published 05/06/2024
Oldham's Ted Chapelhow has penned a new contract that will keep the forward at Boundary Park until the end of the 2025 season.
Date Published 04/06/2024
Danny Craven struck a dramatic last-minute drop goal as Oldham fought back from 24-8 down to steal a thrilling 25-24 win at North Wales Crusaders.
Date Published 03/06/2024
Pat Moran and Ben O’Keefe come into Sean Long’s Oldham squad which will travel to Colwyn Bay to take on North Wales Crusaders this Saturday (5pm kick off).
Date Published 30/05/2024
Sean Long admitted his side were outplayed in every area of the game as Oldham suffered their first defeat of the Betfred League 1 season, losing 28-18 at promotion rivals...
Date Published 26/05/2024
Sean Long praised Oldham’s travelling fans who roared on the team to a seventh successive victory, as the Roughyeds won 42-0 at Cornwall to top the League One table ahead of a...
Date Published 20/05/2024
Roughyeds boss Sean Long has made one change to the side announced ahead of last week’s victory over Newcastle.
Date Published 17/05/2024
Having hammered Newcastle Thunder 74-0 last time out, on the day Keighley Cougars suffered a shock 26-18 home defeat by Hunslet, Sean Long’s Oldham are top of the Betfred League...
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Date Published 10/05/2024
Boss Sean Long hailed “dynamite” full-back Phoenix Laulu-Togaga’e after an electric Oldham display fired them top of League 1 with a 74-0 demolition of Newcastle Thunder.
Date Published 06/05/2024
Ahead of Oldham's home match against Newcastle on Sunday, boss Sean Long has made one change to the squad which travelled to Midlands last week.
Date Published 03/05/2024
Sean Long admits Oldham have plenty to work on as he watched his side battle past a dogged Midlands Hurricanes 44-16 for a fifth straight win to go back on top of Betfred League
Date Published 28/04/2024
Oldham have signed Papua New Guinea international prop McKenzie Yei on a deal until the end of 2025.
Date Published 26/04/2024
Winger Mo Agoro is included in Sean Long’s 21-man squad which will travel to the Midlands Hurricanes' Alexander Stadium tomorrow (Saturday).
Date Published 25/04/2024
History-making match official Tara Jones has told ITV news of the “special” moment she was handed the match ball by a young Oldham fan on a ground-breaking day at Boundary Park.
Date Published 19/04/2024
Oldham RL managing director Mike Ford has challenged the club’s core fan base to “bring one more person” each as attendances to watch Sean Long’s exciting table-toppers continue...
Date Published 15/04/2024
Roughyeds' club historian Mike Turner has confirmed that Cian Tyrer’s four tries in the club’s 46-10 win against Cornwall, following his post-war club record-equalling six at...
Date Published 14/04/2024
Boundary Park will host a moment of history on Sunday when Tara Jones becomes the first woman to referee a senior professional rugby league game in the northern hemisphere.
Date Published 10/04/2024
Girls rugby league in Oldham has been given a major boost after Oldham Rugby League Community Trust gained vital funding from Sport England.
Date Published 09/04/2024
Cian Tyrer praised his team-mates after producing the most devastating individual performance from an Oldham player in 64 years, with six tries in a 62-0 win at Hunslet that sent...
Sean Long hailed his side’s most professional performance of the season as Cian Tyrer’s six tries fired Oldham top of the table in a 62-0 win at Hunslet.
Date Published 08/04/2024
Oldham recorded their biggest victory of the year in front of the largest home league crowd since 2008, to thrash rivals Rochdale 54-6 at Boundary Park.
Date Published 02/04/2024
Ahead of today's (Easter Sunday) game against neighbours Rochdale, Roughyeds boss Sean Long has made two changes to the squad which travelled to Workington Town.
Date Published 30/03/2024
Oldham can be rugby league’s great entertainers again, with the current squad inspired to match the club’s off-field ambitions with some stellar performances on it, starting with...
Date Published 26/03/2024
Oldham RLFC and Salford Red Devils have confirmed a dual-registration partnership for the 2024 season.
Date Published 22/03/2024
The Roughyeds' first Boundary Park game in Betfred League One, the derby clash with Rochdale Hornets on Easter Sunday (3pm, March 31), will be televised live on The Sportsman...
Date Published 18/03/2024
Head coach Sean Long praised Oldham’s “vigour and intent” after the Roughyeds opened the Betfred League One season with a thumping 48-10 win at Workington.
Boundary Park will rock to the tune of thousands of Oldham sports fans over the Easter weekend, there to watch local sporting action on Good Friday, Easter Saturday and finally...
Date Published 13/03/2024
Roughyeds head coach Sean Long says he and his squad will thrive on the “outside noise” surrounding their League One promotion bid.
Date Published 11/03/2024
Oldham captain Jordan Turner has revealed that joining his hometown club means more than anything he has experienced in an illustrious career, and is urging Roughyeds fans to join...
Date Published 10/03/2024
Roary, Oldham Roughyeds' popular mascot, was joined by Dave Thomas (Yeds) when the club's hard-working Supporters’ Group went to a Higginshaw youth section training session to...
Date Published 07/03/2024
The Roughyeds have announced the details of an upcoming dinner event which will focus on the past, present and future of Oldham Rugby.
Date Published 05/03/2024
Oldham can concentrate entirely on their priority target this season - promotion from Betfred League One - after a 46-12 defeat at York in the quarter-final of the AB Sundecks...
Date Published 04/03/2024
Former Oldham RLFC winger John Etty has died in a Blackpool hospital at the age of 97.
Date Published 02/03/2024
Roughyeds' Ben O’Keefe has never had trouble scoring tries - he’s got the pace and the built-in ability to read a game sufficiently to be in the right place at the right time.
Date Published 25/02/2024
Several ball handling errors proved to be Oldham’s downfall as they fell to their first defeat under boss Sean Long, as Swinton progressed to the fifth round of the Challenge Cup.
He was born in the Emerald Isle, he speaks with an accent that’s as Irish as the Ring of Kerry, and although most Oldhamers in the Broadway Suite at Boundary Park struggled to...
Date Published 21/02/2024
Oldham Roughyeds are looking to progress to the Challenge Cup fifth round for the first time in six years with a win against Swinton Lions this weekend.
Former Oldham RL player-coach Bill Francis, who was in charge of the team under the overall control of team manager Graham Starkey in the 1979-80 season and the first part of...
Roughyeds secured qualification to the quarter-finals of the 1895 Cup, thanks to a rip-roaring first half performance where Oldham ran in five tries to Rochdale’s nil.
Date Published 18/02/2024
Battling Oldham progressed to the fourth round of the Challenge Cup as they edged past Barrow Raiders thanks to a strong second-half showing.
Date Published 10/02/2024
Roughyeds head to Barrow tomorrow (Saturday) in search for another upset in the Challenge Cup third round when the two sides kick off at 12:30pm.
Date Published 08/02/2024
A much-changed Oldham side held Super League side London Broncos to an 18-18 draw at Boundary Park.
Date Published 02/02/2024
London Broncos come to Boundary Park on Sunday (3pm) on top of the world after getting back into Super League and having coach Mike Eccles named as one of five personalities of...
Date Published 01/02/2024
Roughyeds hit the ground running as they got their 2024 season underway with a 24-20 win against 1895 Cup holders Halifax Panthers.
Date Published 26/01/2024
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