SCORES
6 mins - Tynedale 0 Harrogate 7
9 mins - Tynedale 5 Harrogate 7 - Try Seamus Hutton
HALF TIME
42 mins - Tynedale 12 Harrogate 7 - Try Jimmy Lythgoe
47 mins - Tynedale 19 Harrogate 7 - Try Ben Haigh
52 mins - Tynedale 19 Harrogate 12
56 mins - Tynedale 26 Harrogate 12 - Try Ben Haigh
63 mins - Tynedale 33 Harrogate 12 - Try Sam Turnill
70 mins - Tynedale 40 Harrogate 12 - Try Jake Scott
73 mins - Tynedale 40 Harrogate 19
77 mins - Tynedale 47 Harrogate 19 - Try Cam Grant
80 mim - Tynedale 47 Harrogate 26

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TYNEDALE RFC v HARROGATE RUFC
Saturday 17th October 2026 (KO 3pm)

WELCOME TO TYNEDALE PARK

This Saturday we welcome all the players, officials and supporters from Harrogate RUFC who have returned to our league this season after only one season away.

While the 1stXV take on Harrogate our other teams are all on the road with the Raiders facing a particularly tough match at Medicals who sit in 3rd place below the Raiders who currently head the table after three matches. NOTE :The Centurions now have a home fixture against Alnwick III.

We also, of course, extend a warm welcome to this all this week’s match officials.

To EVERYBODY - Enjoy your day!

HARROGATE RUFC
Their chequered first team record since April 2023 has seen Harrogate relegated with 23 points after winning only five of that season’s 26 matches, promoted in the following 2023-2024 season, relegated again in April 2025 with 52 points, winning only six matches and then winning a promotion play-off at the end of last season to bounce back once again. What a record!

The top of the 2025/26 table for Regional One North East had ended like this:-

Heath went up as champions; Harrogate beat Alnwick 45-35 and were also promoted after defeating Anselmians in the play-off final.

HARROGATE VISITS
This is Harrogate’s seventh League visit to Corbridge. One match which should have been played here, in December 2015, was transferred to Kingston Park, the home of Newcastle Falcons (now Red Bull) because of the effects of Storm Desmond, which had flooded Tynedale Park.

Having lost on their first five trips to Northumberland our visitors reversed that trend in November 2021 when they won 31-38 here at Tynedale Park, and will be hoping for a similar result today. However, in the eight most recent matches played, at home and away, Tyne have won six times and lost only that one time, with one drawn match.

RECENT SEASONS’ RESULTS
NATIONAL LEAGUE TWO (NORTH)
2016/17 - Tynedale 20 Harrogate 16
2016/17 - Harrogate 15 Tynedale 22
2021/22 - Tynedale 31 Harrogate 38
2121/22 - Harrogate 16 Tynedale 26
2022/23 - Tynedale 15 Harrogate 8
2022/23 - Harrogate 12 Tynedale 24
2024/25 - Tynedale 33 Harrogate 33
2024/25 - Harrogate 12 Tynedale 24

In all League matches Tynedale’s record against Harrogate has been:-
Played 15 Won 10 Drawn 1 Lost 4
Points For 344 Points Against 285

The teams have also played a number of pre-season friendlies, in August 2004, August 2006 and 28th August 2010 at Harrogate and 20th August 2011 at Corbridge. This reinforces the view that the two clubs have had a happy relationship ever since January 1987.

Tynedale first played Harrogate RUFC in January 1987. Tynedale won an untidy game 3-4!!
The match had been moved to a pitch at the Grammar School in Harrogate.

The next meeting was in a league match at Harrogate on the 12th. March 1988 which Harrogate won 24 – 7.

THE OLDEST CLUBS IN NATIONAL TWO (NORTH)
This may be Tynedale’s 150th year but Harrogate RUFC, founded in 1871, is five years older:-
Otley 1865
Preston Grass. 1869
Huddersfield 1870
Harrogate 1871
Tynedale 1876
Fylde 1919
Wharfedale 1923
Billingham 1924
Chester 1925
Heath 1928
Sedgley Park 1930
Sheffield Tigers 1932
Hull Ionians 1992
Darlington MP 1946

HARROGATE THIS SEASON
Harrogate have marked their return to National League rugby with three impressive victories which have though been interspersed with three heavy defeats, highlighted by last Saturday’s 0-72 defeat at home to free-scoring Darlington MP.
They currently sit in 7th place, one place below Tynedale, with 4 fewer league points than us.
Harrrogate, will no doubt, be desperate to get back on an even keel after last Saturday’s set back and Tynedale will be expecting another challenging match.

Harrogate’s League Results to date:-
Otley 21 Harrogate 24
Harrogate 41 Billingham 31
Preston Grasshopper 52 Harrogate 33
Harrogate 21 Hull Ionians 47
Sheffield Tigers 27 Harrogate 28
Harrogate 0 Darlington MP 72

HARROGATE WEBSITE
https://www.harrogaterugby.com/

MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: David Charlton
AR1: Simon Williams
AR2: Frazer Gill

BALL GIRLS
Tynedale Panthers

WEATHER FORECAST
Dry, sunny intervals, light north easterly wind, 13 degrees

OTHER RUGBY THIS WEEKEND

FRIDAY 16th OCTOBER
U15’s v Alnwick U15’s (7pm) - Friendly
SATURDY 17th OCTOBER
Medicals 1stXV v Raiders(3pm) – Counties North East One
Medicals II v Hadrians (3pm) – CaNDY One League
Centurions v Alnwick III (3pm)
Peebles v Colts (3pm) – Border League
SUNDAY 18TH OCTOBER

COUNTIES NORTH EAST ONE LEAGUE