York Wasps

In the first season 16 teams battled it out for the T'owd Tin Pot, with York eventually losing out to Halifax in the final.

In 1885, the club leased a plot of land from the York Lunatic (Bootham) Asylum at the end of the Clarence Street in 1885.

Off the field the club paid £85 for the Waterman's Mission Hut in Fishergate and converted it into their first grandstand, incorporating dressing rooms.

York initially stayed with the Rugby Football Union but as more and more clubs began to join the new order, it became a financial necessity to follow suit.

York had finished as the top Yorkshire club in 1932–33 for the first time and fourth in the league to qualify for the Championship play-offs but were beaten by Swinton.

In the 1922/3 season, York beat Batley 5–0 in the Yorkshire Cup final held at Headingley before a giant crowd of 33,719.

10 February 1934, York's record attendance was set when 14,689 turned up to watch a Challenge Cup match against Swinton, which ended in a 0–0 draw.

Three years later faced with a large bill for safety work, the rest of the stadium was sold to a housing developer for £705,000, less than half what the ground was worth.

The relocation never came to pass and owing to a change in local council boundaries, Huntington, was now a civil parish in the newly formed unitary authority of the City of York.

The newly renamed York Wasps playing at the Huntington stadium were confirmed as being in the Second Division which was now the third tier of rugby league, on 30 April.

They became the first professional side to lose to an amateur club in the fourth round, and it was only the third time a minnow had triumphed against a giant in the event since the Second World War.

Due to financial difficulties and problems with training facilities coach Dean Robinson resigned in the early part of the season in March 2000.

Lee Crooks resigned and academy coach Martin Flynn took charge for the final Northern Ford Premiership home game.

After a last-ditch take-over deal to save the Wasps collapses, the RFL accept the club's resignation on 26 March 2002.

Head coach, Leo Epifania quit England but York players continued to train with the idea of playing later in the season under unpaid caretaker-boss Stuart Horton.

A supporters' trust working party was formed on 27 March 2002 and applied to the RFL to continue the 2002 Northern Ford Premiership fixtures.