Almost 100 years. Thousands of people. One Club.

From a meeting in a Pemberton stable in 1927 to the road towards our Centenary in 2027, Orrell RUFC has experienced extraordinary highs, difficult lows, changing grounds, changing times and some remarkable rugby.

We've played on sawdust pitches and at Edge Hall Road. We've carried goalposts through the streets, lifted trophies, challenged for national honours, produced internationals and a British Lion, survived the professional era and rebuilt ourselves as a community amateur club.

Through it all, the amber and black have remained.

Explore our history below.