Old Wheatleyans RFC or Old Wheats 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 ...

club based in

Coundon, Coventry Coundon is a predominantly residential suburb in north-west Coventry, in the county of the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. Along with the neighbouring Keresley, Coundon was originally a village in the Warwickshire countryside. B ...

. It was formed by former pupils of

Bablake School Bablake School is a secondary school, secondary co-educational Private schools in the United Kingdom, private day school located in Coventry, England. It was founded in 1344 by Isabella of France, widow of Edward II of England, Edward II, maki ...

who continue to supply a large proportion of the current playing strength. The club practices and plays its home games at the Bablake Playing Fields. It shares these facilities with Christ The King Football Club,

and other clubs. The club gained promotion to Midlands 4 West South division in the penultimate game of the season 2010–2011 against local rivals Coventrians. In the following season, 2011–2012, the club finished first and its back-to-back promotions saw it elevated to Midlands 3 West South. In 2012, the club also won the Midland Junior Vase beating Bloxwich 11–3 in the final, before being narrowly beaten in the national semi-final by Baildon RFC, who went on to win the national final.

Club honours

Midlands 4 West (South) Counties 3 Midlands West (East) / (South) (formerly Midlands 4 West (South)) is a level 9 English Rugby Union league and level 4 of the Midlands League, made up of teams from the southern part of the West Midlands region including clubs from ...

champions: 2011-12 * RFU Midlands Junior Vase champions: 2011-12

References

External links

Official site
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