Peebles RFC

Peebles
Full name Peebles Rugby Football Club
Founded 1923
Ground(s) The Gytes
President Gordon Brown
League(s) Scottish National League
Team kit
2nd kit
Official website
www.peeblesrfc.org

Peebles Rugby Football Club are a rugby union side based in Peebles in the Scottish Borders. Peebles is outwith the central Borders and was outside the main rugby playing towns of Galashiels, Melrose, Selkirk and Hawick. They often suffered from a lack of players, with a stronger Football presence due to the links to Midlothian and Edinburgh to the North. But with the growth of neighbouring Innerleithen, and improving links, and players, from local schools, PRFC has gradually climbed the leagues.

The earliest record available of rugby being played in Peebles was of a game in 1877 in Kingsmeadows Park and Peebles Rugby Football Club was formed in 1879.[1] The club ceased to exist about 1900 but was re-constituted in 1923 and now play their home games at the Gytes.

In 1974/75 Peebles joined the National Leagues and were placed in Division 5 East. Promotion to Division 3 came in 1989/90. The big jump came in 2001/02 to Division 2 and then to Division 1 in 2002/03. After 2 seasons in Division 1, there followed two successive drops to Premier 3 before gaining promotion back to Scottish Hydro Electric Premier 2 in 2007/08 where Peebles remained until restructuring of the League system in 2011.

Peebles currently compete in National League, the second tier of club rugby. They gained promotion to the National League by winning the Championship Division B (East) in 2012/13 season after being relegated the season before.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.peeblesrfc.org/a/history-of-prfc-21145.html

See also