City of Salford Construction on a new 20,000 seat £35 million pound stadium was complete in 2012. Now named the AJ Bell stadium it is home to Salford Red Devils and Sale Sharks rugby union team. Swinton Lions were founded in 1866 and play in the Championship at heywood road sale. They won the Rugby Football League Championship six times between 1927 and 1964, before it was superseded by Super League. They have also won the Challenge Cup three times between 1900 and 1928. Broughton Rangers were founded in 1877 and won the Rugby League Challenge Cup in the 1901–02 and 1910–11 seasons.
York Lions Stadium that the stadium would play host to the 2017 North American Indigenous Games. The stadium will be the site of the opening and closing ceremonies as well as the athletics competitions in July 2017. The Toronto Arrows, a professional rugby union club which will join Major League Rugby for the 2019 season, announced that it will play exhibition games in 2018 at York Lions Stadium. York 9 FC, a soccer team in the new Canadian Premier League, will play at the stadium in its initial seasons while planning and constructing their own stadium in York Region. York Lions Stadium York