Enköpings Rugby Klubb - Also known as ERK - is situated in the town of

Enköping Enköping is a locality and the seat of Enköping Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden with 30,000 inhabitants in 2018. Geography Enköping is situated near Lake Mälaren, about 78 km west of Stockholm. A comparably large number of S ...

, which has a population of approximately 40,000 people. The town is within a 40-minute drive of the major cities of

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and

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History

ERK was founded in 1968 by Dennis Pettersson, a former Malmö Rugby Club player who moved to Enköping due to work reasons and when arrived found out there was no rugby in that town. Enköping RK is one of the longest serving members of the Swedish Rugby Federation (SRF), and it is renowned as being the most successful rugby club, not just in Sweden, but in the whole of

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. The Club has won a good amount of silverware since its foundation, having been the Swedish Champions in 19 times.

Club Facilities

The Club has, without doubt, the best rugby facilities in Sweden, boasting its own, newly refurbished and extended club house with function room, bar and kitchen area. It also has changing rooms for both men and women, and a floodlit first team playing ground, with both seating and standing areas. There is also press facilities. Being one of the most popular and successful clubs in Sweden has shown club-record home game attendance being just under 1,500 attendees (in the second leg game of the 2007 National Final). It regularly hosts the Sweden national rugby team matches and competitions, and it has also become the national team’s training centre. In May 2009 the club also hosted along with

some of the matches from the biggest ever rugby tournament to be held in Sweden, the

2009 FIRA Women's European Trophy The 2009 FIRA tournament acted as Europe's 2010 World Cup qualifying tournament. The top four nations from the 2009 Six Nations had automatically qualified, but nations finishing fifth and sixth (Scotland and Italy) joined Spain, Netherlands, Russ ...

, which doubled as a Women’s 2010 World Cup Qualification Tournament. The Swedish Ladies team (which included 2 Enköpings RK players), won their group and qualified for the

2010 Women's Rugby World Cup The 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup was the sixth edition of the Women's Rugby World Cup and was held in England. The International Rugby Board Executive Committee selected the host union following a recommendation from the Rugby World Cup Limit ...

which was played in England, with two players from the club representing Sweden in the competition. In May 2012 Enköping hosted the FIRA-AER Women’s European Cup "B"br>
where there were some Training & Education legacy programmes supported both by the Tournament staff of Enköpings RK and the Swedish Rugby Union.

External links

Enköpings RK
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