was a professional rugby league club based in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

Hunslet were a strong force in the early years of the Northern Union, winning the League Championship and Challenge Cup twice.

Better fixtures drew larger crowds and as a result the landlord wanted to put up the rent.

The search was on for another ground, club officials purchased at little cost 10.25 acres (41,500 m2) of waste land at Hunslet Carr from the Low Moor Iron and Coal Company and had to shift 2,000 tons of rubbish to create what would become Parkside, which they moved to in 1888.

[2] After the 1890-91 season, Hunslet along with other Yorkshire Senior clubs Batley, Bradford, Brighouse, Dewsbury, Halifax, Huddersfield, Hull, Leeds, Liversedge, Manningham and Wakefield decided that they wanted their own county league starting in 1891 along the lines of a similar competition that had been played in Lancashire.

In 1897–98 Hunslet became Yorkshire Senior League Champions, and in the following season they reached the final of the Challenge Cup, going down 19–9 to Oldham.

In the 1905–06 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Hunslet won the first ever Yorkshire Cup, beating Halifax, 13–3.

[3] Oldham had finished as league leaders but Hunslet beat them 12-2 in the Championship Final following an initial 7-7 draw.

Powered by a pack known as the Terrible Six, Hunslet were led by Albert Goldthorpe, already in his late thirties but a dominant figure in the early years of the code.

In 1927–28 Harry Beverley, Leslie White, James "Jim" Traill, and Billy Thornton joined and prospects improved when they finished 4th in the league that season.

The match was played at the Elland Road football ground, to accommodate a huge demand from the city's rugby league supporters.

Over 54,000 people watched the game, a then record for a match in England, Hunslet triumphed, 8–2, to take the title for the second time in the club's history.

The new status as rugby league club saw a decline in Parkside being used by other sports and other members of the community.

In the late 1950s, Hunslet's fanbase went into decline as post-war slum clearances changed what had been a residential area into an industrial one.

Despite this, in 1958, they paid £2,000 for Horace Grainger, making him the most expensive rugby league player of the era.

[5] The team's performances began to decline, reaching a low point in 1961–62 when they finished 25th and were relegated to the new second division.

It was decided that the team never looked that imposing in green and a decision was made to go back to white, this time with two chocolate hoops.

In July 1973 the club announced the winding-up of Hunslet FC because no suitable new location could be found that was financially viable.