The University of Western Australia Rugby Club, also known as the UWA Rugby Club, is an Australian semi-professional rugby club based in

Perth Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The ...

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and is associated with the

University of Western Australia University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Crawley, Western Australia, Crawley, a suburb in the City of Perth local government area. UW ...

(UWA). The club competes in the

RugbyWA Premier Grade The RugbyWA Premier Grade (currently known as the Fortescue Metals Group, Fortescue Premier Grade under naming rights) is the highest level of domestic club Rugby union, rugby played in Western Australia. It was formed in 1928 and was the first ...

, the highest-tier of rugby exclusively played within the state of

. The club was created in 1929 ahead of a match between Claremont-Cottesloe No. 2 that was played on

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. This was also the teams first season. The club won two out of ten games in the A Grade division, finishing second-last. Cottesloe is also acknowledged to be the oldest rival of UWA, known as the "Original Feud". Since the inclusion of the

-based

Western Force The Western Force is an Australian professional rugby union team based in Perth, Western Australia, currently competing in Super Rugby, Super Rugby Pacific. They previously played in Super Rugby from 2006 until they were axed from the competitio ...

rugby team into the

Super Rugby Super Rugby is a men's professional rugby union club competition involving teams from Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. It has previously included teams from Argentina, Japan, and South Africa. Super Rugby started as the S ...

competition in

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, many players from the Western Force are "allocated" or "assigned" to a Premier Grade club such as the UWA Rugby Club.

Honours

Premier Grade Premierships

International representatives

Australia

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Notes

References

External links

UWA Rugby Club
– Official website Rugby union teams in Western Australia Sports clubs and teams in Perth, Western Australia 1929 establishments in Australia Rugby clubs established in 1929 {{australia-rugbyunion-team-stub