The Edmonton Gold were a Canadian rugby union team based in

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. The team played in the

Rugby Canada Super League The Rugby Canada Super League (RCSL or Super League) was a national, semi-professional rugby union competition in Canada. The league represented the second level of domestic rugby union in Canada, and the highest level wholly indigenous to Canada ...

and drew most of its players from the

Edmonton Rugby Union The Edmonton Rugby Union is the administrative body for 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 rug ...

, one of fourteen Rugby Unions that have rep teams in the RCSL. The Gold played their home games at

Ellerslie Rugby Park Ellerslie Rugby Park is a park located in South Edmonton in the neighborhood of Ellerslie. It was the Edmonton Gold's home field and it also held puts on many private events. There are two buildings on the site, the Banquet Room, and the Clubroom ...

in Edmonton.

History

In 1998,

Rugby Canada Rugby Canada is the national governing body for the sport of rugby union in Canada. Rugby Canada was incorporated in 1974, and stems from the Canadian Rugby Football Union, a body established in 1884 that now governs amateur Canadian football a ...

and the provincial unions agreed to form the

. Fourteen unions and sub-unions were invited to compete in the new semi-professional league.

External links

Official Site
Rugby union teams in Canada Rugby union teams in Alberta

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