Belsize Park RFC

Belsize Park Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based in Central London, England. Belsize Park RFC currently have seven senior men's teams and play their home matches in Regent's Park.[2] The men's 1st XV play in London 1 North - a league at tier 6 of the English rugby union system - following promotion from London 2 North West in 2018/19, a level transfer to London 1 South for 2019/20 and then a subsequent level transfer back for the 2020/21 season.

Belsize Park RFC
Full nameBelsize Park Rugby Football Club
UnionMiddlesex RFU
Nickname(s)Belsize
Founded1870 (1870)[1]
LocationBelsize Park, Camden, London
Ground(s)Regent's Park, London
League(s)London 1 South
2019–206th
Official website
bprfc.co.uk

Current

Belsize Park RFC currently has five regular senior sides. The 1st XV play in London 1 South, while the 2nds, 3rds and 4ths compete in the Middlesex merit leagues.[3] The 5th side play developmental friendly fixtures most Saturdays, alongside occasional 6th and Veterans social teams.[2] The club trains at Coram's Fields and prides itself on being London's most central amateur rugby club.

The club tours twice a year, once within Britain and once internationally. The club embarked on an unbroken series of international tours from 1989 to 2019, when COVID-19 halted the 2020 tour to Italy. Destinations have included mainland China, the Caribbean, North and South America, multiple Southern African countries and, more regularly, to European countries.[2]

History

The original Belsize Park FC was founded in 1870 and was one of the twenty-one founding members of the Rugby Football Union. The club had folded by 1880, legend has it former members birthing Rosslyn Park, and Belsize Park Rugby Football Club was only formally re-established in 1971.[4]

Junior rugby

Belsize has an affiliate Junior rugby section also in Regent's Park, called the Regent Park Royals coaching ages 6–12.

1st XV honours

See also

References
  1. Adrian Harvey, Football: the first hundred years : the untold story, p197, (Routledge), 2005
  2. Belsize Park Rugby Football Official Website
  3. Belsize Park RFC.
  4. "Belsize Park Rugby Football Club History". Archived from the original on 2012-08-04. Retrieved 2012-09-25.
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