Teamname: | Crieff and Strathearn RFC |
Fullname: | Crieff and Strathearn Rugby Football Club |
Ground: | King George V Playing Fields |
Url: | https://www.crieffrugby.co.uk/ |
Season: | 2023/24 |
Position: | 1st (Champions) |
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Pattern Ra1: | _lbdt |
Pattern So1: | _yellowtop |
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Crieff and Strathearn RFC is a rugby union club based in Crieff, Scotland. The Men's team currently plays in .
There was previously rugby at Crieff. At the end of the 19th century there was a club known as St. Michael's Guild Rugby Club from around 1889 which then became Crieff rugby club.[1]
This side went defunct but there was another attempt to create a Crieff rugby club, based around ex-players of the Crieff Academy around 1896.[1]
From the 1920s there was another Crieff club based on ex-Morrisons Academy players. Known as the Morrisonian club or Morrison Academy F.P., the club played to at least the mid-1930s and it seems likely it did not survive the Second World War.[2]
The present club was founded in 1972, and the club celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2022.[3]
In the 2012/13 season, they celebrated their first ever league title as a club. Winning the Caledonia Regional League 4 and going unbeaten throughout the campaign.[4] Their second league title would come in the 2023/24 season in the league above, as Crieff & Strathearn won 13 of their 14 games and finished 11 points clear at the top of the table.[5]
The club runs a men's and women's side and a minis side (Primary 1–7).[6]
The men train on Friday nights from 7.30pm, the women on Wednesday nights from 7.30pm, the minis train on Sunday morning from 11am.[6]
The club runs the Crieff Sevens. The teams compete for the Robin McNeil Cup.[7]