Fylde Rugby Club
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| Full name | Fylde Rugby Club |
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| Nickname(s) | Fylde |
| Founded | 1919 |
| Location | Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire, England |
| Ground(s) | Woodlands Memorial Ground (Capacity: 9,000 ) |
| Chairman |
 Dave Young |
| Captain(s) | Chris Briers |
| League(s) | National League 1 |
| 2015–16 | 10th |
| Official website | |
| www |
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Fylde Rugby Union Club /ˈfaɪld/ is a rugby union club based in Lytham St Annes, on the Fylde coast in Lancashire, England. The home venue is the Woodlands Memorial Ground on Blackpool Road in Ansdell and the first team play in English rugby's National League One, the third tier of the English rugby union system. There are another three senior teams, the Wanderers, the Saracens and the Vandals who play in the English North West Leagues; respectively in the NW Premiership, NW1 North and NW5 North. There is currently no Colts team. In previous seasons the Colts have played in the Lancashire & Cheshire regional leagues.
In the past, Woodlands Memorial Ground was shared by Blackpool Rugby League Club.
Fylde Rugby Club was founded on 25 July 1919, literally on the toss of a coin when a group of Manchester businessmen met at Ansdell Institute to discuss the formation of either a rugby union or a football club. A coin was tossed and it fell in favour of rugby union. The club grew steadily and achieved a strong fixture list by the 1960s and has been in the National Leagues since their inception in 1987.
It takes its name from The Fylde, a roughly 13-mile (20-kilometre) square-shaped peninsula, bounded by Morecambe Bay to the north, the Ribble estuary to the south, the Irish Sea to the west, and the Bowland hills to the east, with Blackpool to the west and Preston to the south-east.
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