Selkirk RFC
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| Full name | Selkirk Rugby Football Club | |||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1877 | |||||||||||||||||
| Union | Scottish Rugby Union | |||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Philiphaugh | |||||||||||||||||
| President |  Dennis Henderson |
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| Coach | Brian Cassidy and Steve Scott |
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| League | BT Premiership Division Two | |||||||||||||||||
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Selkirk Rugby Football Club are a rugby union side based in Selkirk in the Borders, Scotland.
They play in their home games at Philiphaugh, and are currently in BT Premiership 2 and Border League (the oldest established rugby union league in the world).
The club was officially instituted in 1907, but the game of rugby was played in the Royal and Ancient Burgh of Selkirk long before this date. In 1877 a game described as the first to be played under rules took place at Philiphaugh. Indeed Selkirk sent a team to the inaugural Melrose Sevens tournament back in 1883, and have been trying to win the Tournament ever since.
The club has produced twelve Scotland internationalists and several British Lions, a very respectable amount when the size of the royal burgh is taken into consideration.
Selkirk's own Sevens takes place annually in August. First competed in 1919, the competition makes up part of the Kings of the Sevens tournament. Current holders of the trophy are Cardiff RFC.
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| Federation: | Scottish Rugby Union |
| National teams: | Scottish national team • Scotland Sevens • British and Irish Lions |
| International Competitions: | Rugby World Cup • Six Nations Championship • Rugby World Cup Sevens • Heineken Cup • European Challenge Cup • European Shield • Celtic League • IRB Sevens World Series • Edinburgh 7s |
| Celtic League Teams: | Border Reivers • Edinburgh • Glasgow Warriors |
| Domestic Competitions: | BT League Championship • BT Scottish Rugby Cup |
| BT Premier League Teams | |
| Division One: | Aberdeen GSFP • Ayr • Boroughmuir • Currie • Dundee HSFP • Glasgow Hawks • Hawick • Heriot's • Melrose • Watsonians |
| Division Two: | Biggar • Cartha Queens Park • Edinburgh Academicals • Gala • GHA • Hamilton • Hillhead Jordanhill • Jed-Forest • Kelso • Selkirk • Stewart's Melville FP • Stirling County |
| Division Three: | Berwick • Cambuslang • Dunfermline • Ellon • Haddington • Kirkcaldy • Livingston • Murrayfield Wanderers • Musselburgh • Peebles • Perthshire • West of Scotland |
