High Wycombe Rugby Football Club is a

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 it ...

club located in

High Wycombe High Wycombe, often referred to as Wycombe ( ), is a market town in Buckinghamshire, England. Lying in the valley of the River Wye, Buckinghamshire, River Wye surrounded by the Chiltern Hills, it is west-northwest of Charing Cross in London, ...

, Buckinghamshire. The first XV currently play in

Southern Counties North Counties 1 Southern North (formerly known as Southern Counties North) is a division at level 7 of the English rugby union system. When league rugby first began in 1987 it was a single league known as Southern Counties but since 1996 the divisio ...

, although the club did play in the national divisions in the first years of league rugby.

League history

When the league system was established in 1987, High Wycombe was placed in South West Division One, then the fifth tier of league rugby. After finishing as runners-up in the first to seasons of league rugby, the club won promotion to Courage Clubs 4 South for the 1991/92 season. The 1993 restructure saw the club placed in

Courage League Division 5 Courage Division 5 was a short lived English rugby union competition created as a tier 5 regional competition divided into Courage Division 5 North and Courage Division 5 South. In 1993 the RFU decided to change the whole league structure, with ...

South and played in that division throughout its three season existence. However when they were placed back in National 4 South, they were immediately relegated and were relegated again the following season. Since then they have moved between

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 ...

and

, having been promoted and relegated three times.

Club honours

* South West Division One champions: 1990-91 *

champions (3): 2002–03, 2004–05, 2014–15

References

External links

Official club website
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