Westcliff Rugby Football Club 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 ...
team based in
Eastwood, a suburb of
Southend-on-Sea
Southend-on-Sea (), commonly referred to as Southend (), is a coastal city and unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in south-eastern Essex, England. It lies on the nor ...
in
Essex
Essex ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the ...
. The club was formed in 1922 as Old Westcliffians Rugby Football Club, for ex-pupils of Westcliff High School and took the current name of Westcliff Rugby Club in the 1990s. They run four senior teams and the full range of junior teams.
Club website home page
/ref> The men's 1st XV currently play in Regional 2 Anglia, level 6 of the English rugby pyramid having experienced successive relegations from National League 2 East in 2022-23 and Regional 1 South East in 2023-24.
Honours
* Eastern Counties 2 South champions: 2002–03
* Essex 1 champions: 2003–04
* London Division 3 North East champions: 2007–08
* London Division 1 North champions (2): 2010–11, 2013–14
* LSE Premier v SW Premier promotion play-off winners: 2018–19
See also
* Essex RFU
References
External links
Official club website
Rugby clubs established in 1922
Sports clubs and teams in Southend-on-Sea
Rugby union clubs in Essex
1922 establishments in Scotland
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