Abu Dhabi Harlequins is a
rugby union and
rugby league team based in
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi (, ; ar, أَبُو ظَبْيٍ ' ) is the capital and second-most populous city (after Dubai) of the United Arab Emirates. It is also the capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the centre of the Abu Dhabi Metropolitan Area.
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UAE. They currently play in the UAE Premiership. The team was founded as the Abu Dhabi RUFC in 1970.
The 'Quins' were recently crowned UAE Premiership Champions of the 2022 rugby season, having had an entire 2020/21 season without any rugby at all due to covid restrictions.
They beat the Dubai Exiles 28-34 in th
UAE PremiershipFinal.
2012-13 Squad
in bold = players internationals
Notable players
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Jeremy Manning
Jeremy G. Manning (born 11 September 1985 in Blenheim, New Zealand) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer who plays for Abu Dhabi Harlequins. He qualified to play for Ireland during the 2008–09 season and has represented Ireland Students.
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- 50 caps for
Munster Rugby, 30 for
Newcastle Falcons.
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Sean Crombie
Sean Crombie (born 25 June 1986) is a former Scotland 7s international rugby union player. He played at hooker.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
He won the Scottish Premiership with Boroughmuir.
Crombie received the first ever U.A.E Playe ...
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Scotland U21 and
Scotland 7's international. Former
Edinburgh Rugby and
Newcastle Falcons player
* Ed Lewsey -
Wales U19 international. former
Exeter Chiefs and
Plymouth Albion
Plymouth Albion Rugby Football Club are a rugby union club who play in Plymouth, England. The present club was founded in 1920 from a merger between Plymouth RFC (founded 1876) and Devonport Albion RFC (founded 1876). Since 2003 they have pl ...
player
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Ben Bolger
Benjamin Bolger (born 13 September 1989) is an English professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for Abu Dhabi Harlequins in the Emirates Rugby League competition. He previously played for London Broncos in the Super League. Hi ...
- former
London Broncos
The London Broncos are a professional rugby league club in London, England.
The club competes in the RFL Championship. It was a member of Super League from its inaugural season in 1996 until the end of the 2014 season, when they were relegat ...
(
Super League
The Super League (officially known as the Betfred Super League due to sponsorship from Betfred and legally known as Super League Europe), is the top-level of the British rugby league system. At present the league consists of twelve teams, of wh ...
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rugby league footballer.
Rugby League
The Harlequins switched to rugby league in 2013, taking part in the inaugural
Emirates Rugby League Cup competition. They were the inaugural Emirates Rugby League champions, beating
Mana Dubai
According to Melanesian mythology, Melanesian and Polynesian narrative, Polynesian mythology, ''mana'' is a supernatural force that permeates the universe. Anyone or anything can have ''mana''. They believed it to be a cultivation or possess ...
in the final of the competition.
See also
References
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Rugby clubs established in 1970
Rugby league in the United Arab Emirates
Rugby union in the United Arab Emirates
Defunct rugby league teams
Rugby union teams in Asia
Sport in Abu Dhabi
1970 establishments in the Trucial States