Halifax (known as the Halifax Blue Sox between 1996 and 2002) is an English rugby league club who have had numerous notable players (1,362 as of 31 October 2018) throughout their history, each player of the rugby league era who has played (and so excludes non-playing substitutes) in a competitive first-class match (including those matches that were subsequently abandoned, expunged or re-played, but excluding friendlies) has been allocated a sequential heritage number in order of their appearance by Halifax.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}