Sri Lanka Police Sports Club (rugby)
| Union | Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1926 |
| Location | Sri Lanka |
| Ground(s) | Police Park (Capacity: 1,000) |
| Coach(es) | Lalith Weeraratne |
| Captain(s) | Lahiru Gurusinghe |
| League(s) |
Dialog Rugby League Clifford Cup |
| 2016-17 Dialog Rugby League season | 7 |
Sri Lanka Police Sports Club (Police SC) is a Division 'A' rugby union team based in Sri Lanka, competing in the Dialog Rugby League. It is the rugby union team of the .
On 27 January 1881 a team of Police officers participated in a rugby game at the “Kew Garden” Park in Malay Street, Slave Island. In 1891 a team from the Pettah Police Station played a rugby match.
In 1961 Police SC together with Division 'B' teams from Air Force, Army SC, Navy and University were permitted to play alongside the Division 'A' clubs, Ceylonese Rugby & Football Club, Colombo Hockey and Football Club, Havelock SC, Kandy SC, Dimbula Athletic & Cricket Club, Dickoya Maskeliya Cricket Club, Uva and Kelani Valley Club in the Clifford Cup competition. The expanded competition, allowed all thirteen clubs to play each other once on a home and away basis in alternate years and at the end of the season the best eight teams went on to play in a knock-out tournament for the Clifford Cup.
The Police Sports Club was promoted to Division 'A' in 1967 and in the first year they made the Clifford Cup finals, defeating Dickoya MCC in the quarter-final and Ceylonese R&FC in the semi-final before losing the final to Havelock Sports Club 11–3. They won their first Clifford Cup in 1970, under the captaincy of Abdul Majeed, drawing in the final 6–6 with Havelock SC. The club went on to win its first Clifford Cup outright in 1972, when led by Anton Benedict they defeated Colombo H&FC 12–9. In the following next year Police SC participated in another drawn Cup final, this time with Army SC.
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