Leigh Leopards are an English professional rugby league club based in Leigh, Lancashire who play in the Rugby League Championship. The club was founded in 1878 as Leigh Rugby Football Club and is one of the original twenty-two clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895. CLUB HONOURS Championship Winners (Winter Era) 1905-06, 1981-82 Division Two Champions (Winter Era) 1977-78, 1985-86, 1988-89 Championship / NL 1 Grand Final Winners 2004, 2014 Championship / NL 1 League Leaders 2004, 2014, 2015 NFP Winners 2001 Challenge Cup Winners 1920-21, 1970-71 Lancashire Cup Winners 1952-53, 1955-56, 1970-71, 1981-82 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy 1969-70, 1972-73 National League Cup Winners 2004, 2006, 2011, 2013 Trans-Pennine Cup Winners 2001 Promotion To Top Division achieved (not as champions) 1963-64, 1975-76, 1991-92 Other Promotion season 1997 (Division 3 to Division 2)