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Grampian Alliance League
The Grampian Alliance League was a small rugby union competition participated in by clubs (including some 2nd XVs) in the Grampian region. Together with the Highland Alliance League, it was one of the few remaining leagues not part of the Scottish rugby union system, and therefore neither it nor its clubs were part of the Scottish League Championship structure. During season 2006-2007 it was in an unclear position - inside the League Championship, being known as ''Grampian Division'' and at the same level as the Midlands and North sections of the Caledonia Regional Leagues - but containing the 2nd XVs of Aberdeen Wanderers RFC, Aberdeenshire RFC and Mackie Academy RFC. 2nd XVs are not usually permitted in the League Championship. However, for the 2007-2008 season two of the first team clubs - Aberdeen University RFC and Aboyne RFC, who had finished 1st and 2nd during 2006-2007 - joined the North section of the Caledonian Regional Leagues. This left West Dyce RFC and Peterh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rugby Union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is played between two teams of 15 players each, using an oval-shaped ball on a rectangular field called a pitch. The field has H-shaped goalposts at both ends. Rugby union is a popular sport around the world, played by people of all genders, ages and sizes. In 2014, there were more than 6 million people playing worldwide, of whom 2.36 million were registered players. World Rugby, previously called the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) and the International Rugby Board (IRB), has been the governing body for rugby union since 1886, and currently has 101 countries as full members and 18 associate members. In 1845, the first laws were written by students attending Rugby School; other significant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mackie Academy RFC
Mackie Academy RFC is a rugby union club based in Stonehaven, Scotland. The Men's team currently plays in . History It was founded in 1976 as a former pupils club, though it is now an open club. It provides rugby for the Stonehaven, the Mearns and south Aberdeenshire area. There are two rugby pitches at the Redcloak site where they are based but the club were told to vacate one of their pitches and their lease was terminated for its use. The rugby club was unsuccessful in its bid to buy this second pitch. Mackie Academy RFC as of 2021 have 6 years of the lease left on the remaining Redcloak pitch. They have proposed buying the grounds off Forest Drive, at Mill O' Forest, to Stonehaven and District Community Council, and the club's bid is at public consultation. The club boasts to be the 2nd biggest in Scotland in terms of membership; with 1200 members, including 375 youngsters. Sides Mackie runs various sides from Primary 1s to Over 35s. Women's and girls sides have been launc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dyce RFC
Dyce RFC is a rugby union club based in Dyce, Aberdeen, Scotland Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast .... The Men's team currently plays in . History The club was founded in 1983. Atholl Garden, Steve Holmes and Gus McVey combined to start the club:- Atholl Garden was a Physical Education teacher at Dyce Academy; Steve Holmes a Financial Director of Loffland Brothers; and Gus McVey was the Manager of the local Bank of Scotland branch in Dyce. Gus McVey unfortunately died in 2019, aged 76. Quite a few players joined the club from the Dyce Academy School Team that Atholl had coached that was a pretty successful School team. Other players came from the local community, local businesses and there were quite a few Students. The club started off playing friendlies with the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Regional Leagues
The Scottish Regional Leagues are the lowest levels of the Scottish rugby union system. They consist of three regions: * West Regional Leagues * East Regional Leagues * Caledonia Regional Leagues Unlike the Premiership, National League and parts of the League Championship, which were formed in 1973 and have remained roughly the same since, the Regional Leagues have grown over time, in a process which saw the old District Leagues amalgamated into the national structure. Up to and including season 2006–07, some divisions operated pools (where the division was split in two, with pre-Christmas and post-Christmas mini-groups) but from season 2007–08 all the divisions will be standard all-play-all formats of between 10 and 12 clubs. From season 2012–13 the whole League was revamped into a pyramid structure. The 6 National Divisions were scrapped because of travel costs and lack of movement between leagues. The new leagues were: *2 national divisions – Premiership and Nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peterhead RFC
Peterhead Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. History Peterhead RFC was started in 1984 in the Scottish town of Peterhead and is one of the youngest clubs in the North-East of Scotland Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast .... Current status Currently plays in the . Location Peterhead play at the Lord Catto playing fields, near to the Balmoor stadium of Peterhead F.C., and have a capacity for about 400 standing spectators. References Rugby union teams in Scotland Rugby clubs established in 1984 Sport in Peterhead Rugby union in Aberdeenshire 1984 establishments in Scotland {{Scotland-rugbyunion-team-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Dyce RFC
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (''ouest'' in French, ''oest'' in Catalan, ''ovest'' in Italian, ''oeste'' in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root ''*wes'' reduced from ''*wes-pero'' 'evening, night', cognate with Ancient Greek ἕσπερος hesperos 'evening; evening star; western' and Latin vesper 'evening; west'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin occidens 'west' from occidō 'to go down, to set' and Hebrew מַעֲרָב maarav 'west' from עֶרֶב erev 'evening'. Navigation To go west using a compass for navigation (in a place where magnetic north is the same dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aboyne RFC
Aboyne ( sco, Abyne, gd, Abèidh) is a village on the edge of the Highlands in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on the River Dee, approximately west of Aberdeen. It has a swimming pool at Aboyne Academy, all-weather tennis courts, a bowling green and is home to the oldest 18 hole golf course on Royal Deeside. Aboyne Castle and the Loch of Aboyne are nearby. Aboyne has many businesses, including a supermarket (Co-op), one bank, several hairdressers, a butcher, a newsagent, an Indian restaurant and a post office. Originally, there was a railway station in the village, but it was closed on 18 June 1966. The station now contains some shops and the tunnel running under the village is now home to a firearms club. The market-day in Aboyne was known as ''Fèill Mhìcheil'' (Scottish Gaelic for "Michael's Fair"). History The name “Aboyne” is derived from “Oboyne”, first recorded in 1260, in turn derived from the Gaelic words “abh”, “bo”, and “fionn”, meaning “lace by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aberdeen University RFC
Aberdeen University Rugby Football Club (AURFC) is the rugby union team at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. The men's team play in ; the women's team play in the university leagues. History Acknowledged as the equal oldest rugby club in the North East of Scotland, (founded in 1871), AURFC has had a long and successful history producing both Scotland and British Lions players. Its traditional playing venue has been Kings Playing Fields right in the heart of old Aberdeen and the centre of campus for the University of Aberdeen, the fifth oldest university in Britain. It was not until 1882 that AURFC affiliated to the Scottish Rugby Union, it was the 17th club to join the SRU structure and the first club north of Edinburgh to join after the University of St Andrews RFC, which is one of the founder members of the Scottish Rugby Union. University rugby is exceptionally important to Scottish Rugby with one quarter of the oldest teams in Scotland being university based. Decline ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aberdeenshire RFC
Aberdeenshire RFC is a rugby union club based in Woodside, Aberdeen, Scotland. The Mens team currently plays in . The Womens team currently plays in Caledonia North Regional League Division 1. History Aberdeenshire RFC was founded in 1875. Aberdeenshire were early pioneers of Youth Rugby in the North East of Scotland. They were the first club in the area to establish a youth rugby team, in the 1960s. The club has played in local and national level league structures, and has had up to three mens teams competing. The highest league position they have reached is National Two. They experienced a drop down the leagues in 2017 following some managerial and financial difficulties. They have since recovered; so much so that they were nominated for Aberdeen Sports Club of the year in 2019, after winning the treble that season. This consisted of; winning the league, winning the regional bowl competition, and winning the national bowl competition with the final match held at Murrayfield. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordonians RFC
Gordonians RFC are a rugby union team based in Aberdeen, Scotland founded in 1923. They take their name from the fact that they were originally the former pupils club for Robert Gordon's College in the city. History Founded, in 1904–05 for the former pupils of Robert Gordon's College, the Gordonian Rugby Football Club has seen many changes in its constitution and fortunes over the last 101 years. The first fifty years of the Gordonian rugby had seen the establishment of a solid and vibrant club, the next fifty one years were to see the club experience many highs and lows as the game was restructured at a national level. First international recognition came to the club when Bert Bruce took the field for Scotland against Australia at Murrayfield in 1946–47. The international torch was carried through the rest of the century by players like Donald MacDonald, Ron Glasgow and Ian McCrae. Throughout the late 1950s and the 1960s the club constantly improved its fixture list an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aberdeen Wanderers RFC
Aberdeen Wanderers Rugby Football Club is a Scottish rugby union club. It was founded in Aberdeen in 1928 as Aberdeen Engineers RFC, acquiring its current name in 1934. Its most notable player to date is Jason White who started with the club and progressed to captain Scotland. History The club merged with Aberdeen Academicals in 1971. For a time they were called Aberdeen Wanderer-Academicals. Location The club is based at Groats Road, by Hazlehead Park Hazlehead Park is a public park in the Hazlehead area of Aberdeen, Scotland. 180 hectares in size, it was opened to the public in 1920, having formerly been the estate of Hazlehead House, home of William Rose, shipbuilder. It is heavily wooded a ... in Aberdeen where is currently has one pitch and a pavilion called "The Jason White Pavilion" Youth Section The Youth section, which was formed in 1992, has a large member base and currently fields teams from Under 13s to Under 18s and for primary aged children. An under 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caledonia Regional Leagues (Rugby Union)
The Caledonia Regional League (currently named the Tennent's Caledonia League for sponsorship reasons) is one of three Regional Leagues operated by the Scottish Rugby Union (SRU), which play at a level below that of the National League The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team ... structure. Historically, these divisions were district leagues under the jurisdiction of the North of Scotland Rugby Union and the Midlands District Rugby Union, but have now come under the auspices of the SRU. Winners of the top division progress to Scottish National League Division Three. Below Division One, the league is regionalised further into Midlands and North divisions. Caledonia Regional League, 2021–22 2nd and 3rd XVs not included. See also * East Regional League * West Region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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