Hull F.C.

Hull Football Club, usually called Hull FC or the Airlie Birds, is a professional rugby league club based in Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1865 by a group of former schoolboys from York who had been at Rugby School, and in 1895 it was one of the 22 clubs that broke away from the Rugby Football Union to form the Northern Union. The Airlie Birds nickname comes from Airlie Street, where the club moved that year to the Boulevard ground. It has played at the MKM Stadium since 2003, sharing the ground with Hull City, and competes in Super League. The club has won the League Championship six times and the Challenge Cup five times, and it represents the west side of the city in its derby with Hull Kingston Rovers.