The Surrey Cup is an annual

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knock-out club competition organized by the

Surrey Rugby Football Union The Surrey County Rugby Football Union is the union responsible for rugby union in the county of Surrey, England, and parts of London. It is one of the constituent bodies of the national Rugby Football Union having been formed in 1879. History ...

. The original cup competition was first played for back in 1890, the inaugural winners being Lennox, but was discontinued in 1909, having been held intermittently over 20 seasons, due to cup competitions being considerable 'undesirable'. The cup was reintroduced around 50 years later for the 1970–71 season, with the first winners of the modern competition being Guildford & Godalming. It is the most important rugby union cup competition in

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, ahead of the

Surrey Trophy The Surrey Trophy is an annual rugby union knock-out club competition organized by the Surrey Rugby Football Union. It was introduced in 2009 and the inaugural winners were London Irish Amateur, London Irish Wild Geese. It is the second most im ...

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and Surrey Bowl. At present the Surrey Cup is a much smaller competition than it used to be with only a few clubs based in tier 5 ( National League 3 London & SE) of the English rugby union league system taking part along with 2nd teams of teams in tiers 3-4 (

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and

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). The final is held at Molesey Road,

Hersham Hersham is a suburban village in Surrey, within the M25 and the Greater London Built-up Area. It has a mixture of low and high rise housing and has four technology/trading estates. Hersham is contiguous with Walton-on-Thames, its post town, t ...

(home of

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) in May - on the same date and venue as the other Surrey finals.

Surrey Cup winners

Number of wins

* Sutton & Epsom (10) *

Esher Esher ( ) is a town in the borough of Borough of Elmbridge, Elmbridge in Surrey, England, to the east of the River Mole, Surrey, River Mole. Esher is an outlying suburb of London, close to the London–Surrey border; with Esher Commons at its ...

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(6) * Streatham-Croydon (6) *

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Camberley Camberley is a town in north-west Surrey, England, around south-west of central London. It is in the Surrey Heath, Borough of Surrey Heath and is close to the county boundaries with Hampshire and Berkshire. Known originally as "Cambridge Tow ...

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(3) * Old Mid-Whitgiftians (3) * London Devonians (2) * Old Alleynians (2) *

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(1) * Customs Sports (1) * Effingham & Leatherhead (1) *

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(1) * KCS Old Boys (1) * Lennox (1) * London Irish Wild Geese (1) * Old Whitgiftian (1) * Rosslyn Park (1) *

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(1) * Wimbledon II (1) * Weybridge Vandals (1)

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Surrey Cup winners

Number of wins

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