Clifton Rugby Football Club

Clifton RFC
Full name Clifton Rugby Football Club
Union Rugby Football Union
Founded 1872 (1872)
Region Gloucestershire Rugby Football Union
Ground(s) Station Road, Cribbs Causeway (Capacity: 400 (seated)[1])
Chairman Wyn Tingley
President John Raine
Coach(es) Matt Salter
League(s) National League 2 South
2014–15 12th
Team kit
Official website
www.cliftonrugby.co.uk
The first ever photograph of a Clifton RFC team (1873).
The Clifton RFC team for the 1874–75 season

Clifton Rugby Football Club is an English rugby union club founded in Clifton, Bristol. Over the years the club's home games have been played in a variety of locations in northern Bristol, though never in Clifton itself; since 1976 they have been based at the southern end of Cribbs Causeway. Clifton play in the fourth tier of the English rugby union league system; National League 2 South.

History

Clifton is Bristol's oldest club, and one of the oldest in the world.[2] Clifton Rugby Club was formed on 27 September 1872 at the Kings Arms on Blackboy Hill in Clifton, Bristol. The pub still stands, although it was rebuilt in 1902, and refurbished in the late 1990s. Clifton is the 32nd oldest club in the United Kingdom, the 21st oldest in England, the 2nd oldest in the South West (Bath Rugby older by seven years) and the oldest in Bristol.[3] In 1909 a combined Bristol Rugby and Clifton RFC team, captained by Percy Down, lost to Australia 11–3.

Clifton's Cribbs Causeway ground also hosted the Bristol Packers American football team in the late 1980s and early 1990s.[4]

Current standings

2015–16 National League 2 South Table
Club Played Won Drawn Lost Points For Points Against Points Difference Try Bonus Losing Bonus Points
1 Cambridge 21 18 1 2 664 368 296 18 0 92
2 Old Albanian 21 16 1 4 646 344 302 16 3 85
3 Bishop's Stortford 22 15 1 6 607 348 259 14 5 81
4 Taunton Titans 20 16 0 4 625 384 241 13 2 79
5 Redruth 20 14 0 6 463 373 90 9 4 69
6 Old Elthamians 22 12 2 8 493 496 -3 5 3 60
7 Barnes 22 9 3 10 509 542 -33 11 3 56
8 Clifton 21 9 1 11 556 509 47 9 4 51
9 Worthing Raiders 22 9 1 12 476 494 -18 6 4 48
10 Redingensians Rams 22 8 0 14 479 550 -71 7 5 44
11 Bury St Edmunds 22 8 0 14 457 554 -97 6 6 44
12 Dorking 21 8 0 13 402 535 -133 5 6 43
12 Canterbury 21 8 0 13 446 600 -154 6 4 42
14 Chinnor 22 7 0 15 496 599 -103 7 7 42
15 Southend Saxons 21 6 3 12 411 572 -161 5 2 37
16 Launceston 20 0 1 19 230 692 -462 2 5 9
  • If teams are level at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
  1. Number of matches won
  2. Difference between points for and against
  3. Total number of points for
  4. Aggregate number of points scored in matches between tied teams
  5. Number of matches won excluding the first match, then the second and so on until the tie is settled
Green background is the promotion place. Blue background is the play-off place. Pink background are relegation places.
Updated: 13 February 2016
Source: "National League 2 South". NCA Rugby. 

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