Vale of Lune RUFC

Vale of Lune
Full nameVale of Lune Rugby Union Football Club
UnionLancashire RFU
Founded1900 (1900)
LocationLancaster, Lancashire, England
GroundPowder House Lane (Capacity: 4,000 (50 seated)[a])
PresidentDave Baggot
CoachMark Goodman
CaptainJack Ayrton
LeagueRegional 2 North West
2025–262nd (won promotion to Regional 1 North West via a play-off)
Team kit
Official website
www.pitchero.com/clubs/valeoflunerufc/

Vale of Lune Rugby Union Football Club is an English rugby union club based in Lancaster. The first team currently play in Regional 1 North West, a level five league in the English league system, following the club's promotion from Regional 2 North West at the end of the 2025–26 season. The club has three male senior teams, a senior colts side, and mini & junior sections with teams from under-6's to under-16's.

Herbert Storey, a High Sheriff of Lancashire, was among those who founded the club.[2] The club moved to its current Powder House Lane ground in 1905, with its first game being on 23rd September against Liverpool Old Boys.[3]

Ground

Vale of Lune have been based at Powder House Lane since 1905. When the club were the Courage Leagues in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the ground capacity was listed as being an impressive 9,860 (360 seats, 9,500 standing) and facilities included a club house with two bars.[1] As the club dropped down the league structure into the 21st century, capacity was much reduced with the main covered stand being removed and replaced by a modern club house.[4]

For a modern estimate and taken into account health and safety, the ground would probably allow a maximum capacity of 4,000. The east side of the ground has a new 50 seater stand and there is substantial old terracing, which could accommodate up to 2,000 people, the north side has a slope which could take around 500 people and standing on standing on the west and south sides would probably host a further 1,000, given a total of around 4,000, including the seating, less than half of the original capacity.

Honours

Notes

  1. ↑ A ground capacity estimate by the club back in 1990 was 9,860 including 360 seats. Recent changes, such as the removal of a covered stand and updated health and safety standards mean the current capacity is much reduced.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Tony Williams and Bill Mitchell, ed. (1990). "Vale of Lune R.U.F.C. (Ground Details)". Courage Official Rugby Union Club Directory 1990–91 (3rd ed.). Windsor: Burlington Publishing Co. Ltd. p. 164.
  2. ↑ "New Captain". Lancashire Evening Post. 27 June 1933. p. 9. Retrieved 28 June 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "Manchester District Referees Society". The Manchester Guardian. 21 September 1905. p. 4.
  4. ↑ "Vale of Lune Rugby Club". The Ground Hog. 3 August 2021.
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