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Chesterfield Spires Rugby League Football Club

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Address:	Gosforth Fields, Stubley Lane, Dronfield, Derbyshire
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About the Club

Rugby League in

Chesterfield can be traced back to the late 1970's when a team bearing the
Chesterfield name was involved in the West Yorkshire Sunday League. However, by 1983, records of the club become hazy. The last secretary of the club did become the secretary of Shirebrook and it is assumed that due to the close proximity of the town to both Clowne and Shirebrook , that many of the players went to these clubs.

Although for many years there has been a latent interest in the sport around the town, not least due to the Sheffield Eagles using the football club’s Saltergate home for games in the early 1990's. The town itself was not represented in Rugby League circles until 2003, when Chesterfield Spires was formed by a group of three Friends in the Welbeck Arms on Soresby Street on 29th July. The first training session was held the week after on

Highfield
Park with only these three players.

The club grew steadily during the autumn of 2003 and many players gained Rugby League experience with Worksop Sharks in the 2004 season, including one game where the club provided 6 players for a game. The club itself hit standstill in the Autumn of 2004 and it was feared that the ambitious project was dead. However a series of meetings demonstrated that there was still energy for Rugby League in the town and the club began to prepare solid foundations for the future.

By the end of April the club had signed a deal to play Rugby League at Gosforth Fields in Dronfield, and they made their first appearance competitively in the Sheffield 7's tag tournament on 3rd May 2005 finishing 3rd in their group with two wins and being beaten 6 - 3 by York in the elimination stage of the competition.

The club hope to continue to develop and have around 10 friendlies planned for the 2005 season. Formal competition is the aim for 2006.

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