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Irish rugby union club, based in Banbridge From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Banbridge Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based in Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland, in the province of Ulster. It currently plays in Division 1B of the Energia All-Ireland League after gaining promotion in 2017, and Division 1 of the Ulster Rugby Premiership. In addition to the senior team, the club fields another 4 adult junior-standard teams, a Women's Team, an U21, youth U18, U16, U14 and U12 teams (boys & girls), as well as a large mini rugby section and a Mixed Ability Rugby Team named The Barbarians.
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| Full name | Banbridge Rugby Football Club | |
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| Union | IRFU | |
| Branch | Ulster | |
| Founded | 1926 | |
| Ground(s) | Rifle Park, Banbridge | |
| Chairman | John Ewart | |
| President | Tim Honeyford | |
| Coach(es) | Rob Logan, Paddy McAllister, Charlie Farrell & Rob Lyttle | |
| Captain(s) | Peter Cromie | |
| League(s) | All-Ireland D2A | |
| 2022–23 | 9th.[1] | |
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Late in 1925, a group of former Banbridge Academy pupils interested in the game of rugby, got together to form a team to play Newry. The date of that historic first game was 2 January 1926. One of the players in that first game was F. E. McWilliam; later the well known Irish surrealist sculptor.
Banbridge spent the next 72 years in the ranks of Ulster junior rugby, with mixed fortunes.
At the end of the 1997–98 season, Banbridge won the round-robin play-offs against the other provincial qualifying champions Naas, Monivea and Midleton. Their victory secured promotion to Division Four of the All Ireland League for the 1998–99 season. They have remained as an AIL senior club since then. In the 2016–2017 season Banbridge gained promotion to AIL 1B.
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