Hinckley Rugby Club is an
English rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
team based in
Hinckley
Hinckley is a market town in south-west Leicestershire, England, administered by Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council. Hinckley is the third largest settlement in Leicestershire, after Leicester and Loughborough, and is about halfway between L ...
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Leicestershire
Leicestershire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to the north, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warw ...
. The club runs six senior sides, a ladies team and a full set of junior teams (including a girls only section). The first XV currently play in
National League 2 West, a fourth tier league in the
English rugby union system
Men's Rugby union in England consists of 106 leagues, which includes professional leagues at the highest level, down to amateur regional leagues. Promotion and relegation are in place throughout the system.
Women's Rugby union in England consi ...
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History
Hinckley Rugby Club was formed in 1892 with the first matches being played the following year. As with many clubs, Hinckley moved regularly during the early years of the 20th-century before moving to Coventry Road in 1929 and to its current Leicester Road location just under forty years later. After a strong 1970s, the 1980s were unkind to Hinckley and when the league system was formed the club suffered three consecutive relegations. However, fortunes improved in the 1990s and they started to move back up the rugby hierarchy and reached the National leagues by the end of the 1990s.
Club website history
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Honours
* Leicestershire County Cup winners (8): 1971–72, 1972–73, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1981–82, 1997–98, 2006–07, 2012–13
* Leicestershire 1 champions: 1990–91
* East Midlands/Leicestershire 1 champions: 1991–92
* Midlands East 1 champions: 1993–94
* Midlands 1 champions: 1996–97
* Midlands Division 2 East champions: 2001–02
* Midlands 2 (east v west) promotion play-off winner: 2007–08
* National League 3 (north v midlands) promotion play-off winner: 2015–16
Current standings
References
External links
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1892 establishments in England
Rugby clubs established in 1892
Rugby union clubs in Leicestershire
Hinckley