Scunthorpe Rugby Club is an English

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team based in

Scunthorpe Scunthorpe () is an industrial town in Lincolnshire, England, and the county's third most populous settlement after Lincoln, England, Lincoln and Grimsby, with a population of 81,286 in 2021. It is the administrative centre and largest settleme ...

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th ...

. The club runs six senior sides, a ladies team, a colts and under-18s team and a full set of junior teams. The club currently plays in

National League 2 North National League 2 North is one of three level four leagues in the English rugby union system and provides semi-professional competition for teams in Northern England. The remainder of England is covered by the two counterpart leagues National L ...

following their promotion from

Regional 1 North East Regional 1 North East is a level five league in the English rugby union system, with the twelve teams drawn from across North East England and the East Midlands. The other level five leagues are Regional 1 Midlands, Regional 1 North West, Re ...

at the end of the 2024–25 season.

History

Scunthorpe Rugby Club was formed in 1929 and played its first fixtures in a field owned by a local farmer, on the condition that the goal posts were moved after each game so that the animals could return to graze. From these humble beginnings the club progressed to a stage whereby it was able to move to its own ground, Heslam Park, in 1952.

Ground

Since 1952 the club have been based at Heslam Park in the middle of

, which they share with Scunthorpe Town cricket club. Heslam Park is accessible by car via the A18 and is around a mile from

Scunthorpe railway station Scunthorpe railway station serves the town of Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire, England. The station is located a short walk from the town centre, on Station Road. As one approaches the station by road, there is a pay and display car park with ...

if coming by train. Facilities at the ground include a sports and social club, on-site parking, and an adjoined cricket pitch and rugby pitch, the rugby section of which features a covered stand with seating. The ground capacity around the rugby pitch includes 212 seats in the covered stand, along with approximately 1000 standing, leading to a total of around 1,212.

Honours

* Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire 1 champions: 1988–89 * Midlands East 1 champions: 1994–95 *

Midlands 1 East Regional 2 Midlands East is an English List of English rugby union teams, level 6 rugby union regional league for rugby clubs in the eastern region of the The Midlands, Midlands, including sides from Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Leicestersh ...

champions (2): 1995–96, 2009–10 * Midlands Premier champions (3): 2000–01, 2015–16, 2018–19 *

champions; 2024–25

Current standings

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* Rugby union teams in England Rugby clubs established in 1929 Rugby union in Lincolnshire Sport in Scunthorpe 1929 establishments in England {{England-rugbyunion-team-stub