New Brighton Football Club (Rugby Union) are a

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team based in

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, UK. They are currently playing in the ADM Lancashire Championship League. The club was formed in 1875 and have been based at several grounds over the years. The club's present home is Hartsfield, situated in

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, Wirral,

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. One of the most notable matches in the club's history was when they hosted a joint New Brighton /

North of Ireland F.C. North of Ireland Football Club is a former Irish rugby union club that was based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the first rugby club formed in what is now Northern Ireland and only two other clubs - Dublin University and Wanderers - were ...

team to face the 1969 touring South African team. The South Africa national team had initially intended to play an Ulster fixture in Belfast, but when this was cancelled and the New Brighton game scheduled in its place. The Springboks won 22–6. Today, the club fields teams from many different age groups, including 3 full senior men's XV, Women's XV, and teams from under-18 to under-5.

Notable players

James Patrick Quinn (New Brighton, and British Lions) won his first cap for England against

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on 16 January 1954 at

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. He went on the

1955 British Lions tour to South Africa In 1955 the British Lions rugby union team toured Southern and Eastern Africa. The Lions drew the test series against , each team winning two of the four matches. They won the first test by a single point and the third by three points and lost ...

playing twelve matches (including the last one against

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) scoring 21 points from three tries (9 points), three conversions (6 points) and two penalties (6 points).

Honours

* Cheshire Bowl winners (2): 2024 * Cheshire Cup winners (7): 1880, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005 * Cheshire Plate winners (2): 1983, 1992 *

North West 1 North West 1 (not to be confused with North 1 West) was an English Rugby Union league which was at the seventh tier of the domestic competition and was available to teams in North West England. Promoted teams moved up to North 2 West while re ...

champions: 1993–94 * North 2 champions: 1995–96 * North 1 champions: 1997–98 *

South Lancs/Cheshire 1 Counties 2 ADM Lancashire & Cheshire (formerly Lancs/Cheshire Division 1) is a regional English Rugby Union league for teams from Cheshire, Merseyside, Lancashire and Greater Manchester, ranked at tier 8 of the English league system. The div ...

champions: 2013–14

References

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