Barkers Butts Rugby Football Club is a

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club in

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. The first XV currently play in

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, a seventh tier league in the

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. The club operates four senior teams, a Colts side and the full range of junior teams for both boys and girls.

League history

When the league system was established in 1987, Barkers Butts was placed in the fifth tier, playing in

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and were runners up in the first season of league rugby. They finished in second place twice more (1990–91 and 1992–93) but were relegated from tier 5, then called

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, after the 1994-95 season. and have not played at that level since. Subsequently, they have alternated between the sixth and seventh levels.

Club honours

champions: 1993–94 *

champions (2): 2004–05, 2010–11

References

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