Selkirk RFC

Selkirk
Full name Selkirk Rugby Football Club
Union Scottish Rugby Union
Founded Rugby first played in 1877.
Official date 1907
Ground(s) Philiphaugh
President Eric Forster
Coach(es) Ali Dickson and
Euan Robbie
Captain(s) Neil Darling
League(s) Premiership Division Two
Team kit
Official website
www.selkirkrfc.com

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 now in Premiership Division Two and the 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 May. First competed in 1919, the competition makes up part of the Kings of the Sevens tournament. Current holders of the trophy are Melrose RFC.

Honours

Scottish Championship 1953

Border League Winners 1935, 1938, 1953, 2008, 2009, 2010 Runners Up 2007, 2011

Kings of the Sevens 2007, 2008, 2009

See also