Chippenham Rugby Football Club is an English

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

club located in

Chippenham Chippenham is a market town A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village ...

Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire ...

. Chippenham has three senior teams, supported by a full set of mini and junior sides. The first team currently play in

Regional 2 Severn Regional 2 Severn is a level six league in the English rugby union system, one of twelve leagues, at this level. The twelve teams are based in counties near the River Severn, i.e. Gloucestershire and Somerset, with two from Wiltshire. The clu ...

, a level six league in the

English rugby union league system Men's Rugby union in England consists of 106 leagues, which includes professional leagues at the highest level, down to amateur regional leagues. Promotion and relegation are in place throughout the system. Women's Rugby union in England cons ...

, while the second and third teams play in Dorset & Wilts 1 North and Dorset & Wilts 3 North respectively (level 8 and 10).

Honours

1st team: * Berks/Dorset/Wilts 2 champions: 1987–88 *

Southern Counties South Counties 1 Southern South (formerly known as Southern Counties South) is a level 7 league in the Rugby Football Union South West Division, the rugby union governing body for South West England, part of the Rugby Football Union. When league rug ...

champions: 1998–99 * South West 2 (east v west) promotion play-off winners: 2004–05 *

South West 1 East South West 1 East is an English, level six, rugby union league in south and south-west England; mainly Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Gloucester, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Wiltshire. Originally a si ...

champions (2): 2007–08, 2014–15 * Tribute South West Division 1 West champions: 2010–11 2nd team: * Dorset & Wilts 1 North champions (2): 2011–12, 2012–13

External links

* Chippenham Rugby union teams in England Rugby clubs established in 1898 1898 establishments in England Rugby union in Wiltshire {{England-rugbyunion-team-stub