 The club sold part of its Waterloo property for £1.4 million to W Morrison's to help fund the purchase of the former brewery estate at Lockwood Park from Bass in 1996 to create a major sports complex backed by a £1.84 million Sport Council lottery grant.The club won the Yorkshire Cup in 2011 for the first time in its history, beating Hull RUFC 25–18 at York RUFC.The Huddersfield team which won the cup in 1890 was the direct antecedent of the Huddersfield Giants and is unconnected to the current Huddersfield RUFC.