Category Archives: Club News

The annual Players Awards Dinner will be held on Saturday 11th May at 7.30pm. Tickets are priced at £15 with Colts paying £10. Please contact your team captain to confirm your attendance.

The second team conclude their Bateman Premier League campaign on Friday evening with a home fixture against local rivals Fylde. Young’s men can (technically speaking) retain their championship but would need to overcome the men from The Woodlands by 183 points. Therefore it would seem inevitable that Macclesfield are going to usurp Hoppers as champions […]

The club is calling for the help of volunteers this Sunday to help at the Preston Grasshoppers Mini’s Tournament. Help is needed on the car park to ensure all visiting parents, coaches and players are directed to the correct areas for parking. Volunteers are asked to arrive at 9am and will be needed for just […]

For the coming season the club have adopted a new direct debit scheme as an easy way to pay annual membership fees.  This first membership category due for renewal this year are the squash members, who can renew here.  This method of payment is the preferred payment method and as far as possible should be […]

NEW HOPPERS LEAGUE POINTS SCORING RECORD Congratulations go to 21 year old Sean Taylor after he broke Steve Kerry’s long standing league points scoring record for Hoppers last Saturday in the game against Leicester Lions.   Steve’s record had stood for 15 years before Sean kicked the sixth conversion on to become the new record […]

The changing rooms at Preston Grasshoppers have always appeared quite large compared to those of many local clubs in the North West, but when you are trying to fit 25 players and a TV camera crew the space is somewhat diminished.  That was the situation on Saturday for Keith ‘Dad’ Brierley’s final game for the […]

We are looking for job opportunities for a number of current players and potential new players who may be moving to the Preston area. Whilst all types of work would be of interest, we are particularly keen to hear from any members, sponsors or supporters who are looking to take on graduates/graduate trainees in any […]

The Club “Amatori Rugby Formia”, whose players are called Aurunci, was founded in the 2006. The club was initially created by a small group of friends from Formia which quickly attracted the attention of young and old players from all around the Gulf of Formia, that till then, had almost never heard or played rugby. […]

Preston Grasshoppers RFC is delighted to welcome Bailey Financial Services to Lightfoot Green on Saturday as the Main Match Sponsor for the Leicester Lions game. Michael Bailey is Chairman of Rugby at Preston Grasshoppers so is a well-known face around the club. We caught up with Mike who had the following to say; “This day […]

Wednesday evening, 17th April, sees the final of the UCLAN Under 16’s Floodlit Cup taking place at Lightfoot Green. AKS (the school formed between the merger of Arnold and King Edward’s) take on Manchester Grammar School. Kick off is at 7pm and entry is free.