Bournemouth Rugby Club
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| Full name | Bournemouth Rugby Football Club |
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| Union | Rugby Football Union |
| Founded | 1893 |
| Location | Bournemouth, Dorset, England |
| Region | Dorset & Wilts RFU / Hampshire RFU |
| Ground(s) | Chapel Gate |
| Chairman | Denis Eveleigh |
| League(s) | National League 3 South West |
| 2016–17 | 5th |
| Official website | |
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Bournemouth RFC is a rugby union club founded in 1893 and they currently play in the fifth tier of the English rugby union system; National League 3 South West. The grounds are currently located at Chapel Gate.
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Bournemouth were relegated from National League 2 South at the end of the 2013–14 season and have played in National League 3 South West since 2014–15.
Bournemouth currently run four senior teams.
1st XV (Lions) – compete in National League 3 South West. Were winners of 2011–12 National 3 South West. Were runner-up in 2010–11 losing 22 – 23 away to Hertford in the National 3 play-off. Winners of the Dorset & Wilts RFU Senior Cup in 2011 for the fourth successive time, equalling their previous best run from 1977–78 to 1980–81 and their twelfth overall.
The second XV play in a league called The Shield, the third XV plays in Dorset & Wilts 1 South and the fourth XV plays in Dorset & Wilts 4. The club also runs the full range of junior teams and one girls side.
1973/1974: Winners Hampshire Cup. Beat Trojans 16–3. Become the first non-services side to win the cup.
1977/1978: Winners Dorset & Wilts RFU Senior KO Cup. Beat Salisbury. Believed to be the only club to win the county cup for two different counties.
1978/1979: Winners Dorset & Wilts RFU Senior KO Cup. Beat Salisbury 27–3.
1979/1980: Winners Dorset & Wilts RFU Senior KO Cup. Beat Salisbury 23–3.
1980/1981: Winners Dorset & Wilts RFU Senior KO Cup. Beat Wimborne.
1982/1983: Winners Dorset & Wilts RFU Senior KO Cup. Beat Swanage & Wareham 15–3.
1983/1984: Winners of the Bisley Office Equipment Southern Merit Table.
1984/1985: Winners Dorset & Wilts RFU Senior KO Cup. Beat Swindon 14–3.
1987/1988: Courage South West 1 11th (Relegated).
1988/1989: Courage South West 2 9th.
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