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How many UK cities have one (or more) of each of pro: football, rugby and cricket teams?

Question #26569. Asked by multisport.

sequoianoir
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sequoianoir
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This I understand is a list of cities in England with a population over 100,000.
I have highlighted Football (Soccer) Clubs that I know come from these places.

Bath
Birkenhead
Birmingham (City FC and Aston Villa)
Blackburn (Rovers FC)
Blackpool (FC)
Bournemouth (FC)
Bradford (City FC)
Brighton ( and Hove Albion FC)
Bristol (City FC and Rovers FC)
Chelmsford
Coventry (City FC)
Derby (County FC)
Exeter (City FC)
Gloucester
Huddersfield (Town FC)
Hull (City FC)
Ipswich (Town FC)
Leeds (United FC)
Leicester (City FC)
Liverpool (FC and Everton FC)
London (incl) (Arsenal, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Fulham, Millwall, Queen's Park Rangers, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United)
Manchester (United FC and City FC)
Middlesbrough (FC)
Newcastle (United FC)
Norwich (City FC)
Nottingham (Forest FC)
Oldham (Athletic FC)
Oxford (United FC)
Peterborough (United FC)
Plymouth (Argyle FC)
Portsmouth (FC)
Sheffield (Wednesday FC and United FC)
Southampton (FC)

Jan 17 2003, 1:23 AM
riotgrrl
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riotgrrl
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Cricket teams are found in:
Canterbury (Kent)
Southampton* (Hampshire)
Manchester* (Lancashire)
Leicester* (Leicestershire)
Taunton (Somerset)
London* (Middlesex, Surrey)
Brighton* (Sussex)
Leeds* (Yorkshire)
Birmingham* (Warwickshire)
Derby* (Derbyshire)
Chester-le-Street (Durham)
Chelmsford (Essex)
Cardiff* (Glamorgan)
Bristol* (Gloucestershire)
Northampton* (Northamptonshire)
Nottingham* (Nottinghamshire)
Worcester (Worcestershire)

Some of these teams occasionally play at other grounds.
Those towns and cities marked with a * also have a football team.
So now, we just need someone to find the rugby teams!

Jan 17 2003, 1:48 AM
riotgrrl
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riotgrrl
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And the professional rugby union teams:

Leicester*
Manchester* (Sale)
Gloucester
London* (Harlequins)
Northampton*
Newcastle
Bristol*
Watford (Saracens)
Bath
Leeds*
High Wycombe (Wasps)
Reading (London Irish)
Orrell
Rotherham
Worcester

Those marked * have both cricket and football teams.

Jan 17 2003, 2:32 AM
riotgrrl
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riotgrrl
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The professional rugby league teams:

St Helens, Bradford, Wigan, Leeds*, Hull, Castleford, Widnes, London*, Halifax, Warrington, Wakefield, Manchester* (Salford)

Jan 17 2003, 3:03 AM
riotgrrl
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riotgrrl
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So, it seems the cities are:
London, Manchester, Leeds, Leicester, Northampton, Bristol, and also Cardiff.

Jan 17 2003, 3:04 AM
Fosse4
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Fosse4

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Can confirm Leicester has professional (or semi professional) teams in Association Football, Rugby Union, Rugby League, Cricket, Basketball, Cycle Speedway, Hockey and American Football

Jan 17 2003, 10:31 PM
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