Manchester Rugby Club
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| Full name | Manchester Rugby Club | |||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1860 (as Manchester Football Club) | |||||||||||||||||
| Location | Cheadle Hulme, England | |||||||||||||||||
| Ground(s) | Cheadle Hulme CC | |||||||||||||||||
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| League | National Division Two | |||||||||||||||||
| 2007-08 | 2nd | |||||||||||||||||
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Manchester Rugby Club, formerly known as Manchester Football Club, are one of the oldest rugby union teams in existence, having been founded in 1860, 11 years before the RFU.
They play their home matches at Cheadle Hulme, in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport. The club is divided into different sections - 1st XV, 2nd XV, Warriors, Ladies, and Mini, Juniors, Colts. Their home colours are red shirts with navy blue and white piping, navy shorts and navy socks. Their away colours are navy blue shirts with red & white piping, navy shorts and navy socks.[1]
[edit] History
Although founded in 1860, the club had played its first game in 1857, when the gentlemen of Manchester and Liverpool came together to play a friendly game. Richard Sykes, the captain of football at Rugby School set up the Manchester team and provided the ball, and so the game became dubbed 'Rugby versus the World!' Liverpool F.C. and Manchester F.C. came into being not long afterwards.
Manchester had very strong links with the early RFU, supplying two presidents (James MacLaren and Roger Walker) and a number of international players, including Albert Neilson Hornby, the first ever player to captain England at both rugby and cricket. The earliest international jersey is still on display in the clubhouse.
The current league positions of the English game are summarised here.
