Year Founded: 1991
Nickname: Tykes
Ground: The Sycamores
Current Position: Fourth (P7 W4 D0 L3 TB5 LB3 Pts 24)
Last season: Ninth (P26 W11 D0 L2 TB12 LB2 Pts 58)
Previous five games Vs. Rams
Rams 34-24 Leeds Tykes (January 2026)
Leeds Tykes 7-19 Rams (October 2025)
Rams 52-24 Leeds Tykes (March 2023)
Leeds Tykes 10-36 Rams (November 2022)
Leeds Tykes 25-22 Rams (January 2022)
Recent form:
Very strong.
Tykes have been scoring points for fun and have four wins from their past five games.
Last time out they overcame visitors Bishop’s Stortford 36-31, fresh from a superb 40-35 triumph at Dings Crusaders.
A narrow 21-17 loss to Sale FC followed spectacular 57-33 and 57-10 victories against last season’s Champ sides Cambridge and London Scottish.
And even their opening two defeats – 19-12 at Sheffield and 38-36 against visitors Camborne – were tight affairs.
Indeed, Leeds are yet to not take a point from any of their first seven fixtures this term.
Players to watch:
Connor Walker – Back row bagged a brace on his previous trip to Old Bath Road, and the former Goole man is closing on 50 appearances since joining Leeds ahead of the 2024/25 campaign.
Ed Crossland – Yorkshire fly-half has a siege-gun boot and has pulled the strings for Leeds since arriving from Otley at the start of last season.
Remarkably played every minute bar a sin-bin against Blackheath in his debut campaign, leading the point-scoring charts with 143 (two tries, 44 conversions, 15 penalties).
This ensured he won the Colin Cramption Supporters’ Player of the Season trophy.
And there has been no loss of form with 56 points (25 conversions, two penalties) so far this year.
Matt Salisbury – Outside centre is in unstoppable form with 10 in seven appearances this term.
A Leeds Beckett graduate, the 22-year-old spent time in the Champ with Ampthill before a mid-season switch to Tykes saw him grab three tries in six outings to help them secure National One survival.
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