Oldham Roughyeds RLFC are a semi professional rugby league club in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, who play in the Championship. Oldham are one of the original twenty-two rugby clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895. Formed in 1876 as Oldham Football Club, the club was known as Oldham Bears from the 1996 season until liquidation in 1997, before reforming as the Roughyeds. They played from 1889 to 1997 at Watersheddings. They have won the Championship four times and the Challenge Cup three times.