Hillfoots RFC is a Scottish rugby union club based in

Tillicoultry Tillicoultry ( ; Scottish Gaelic: Tulach Cultraidh, perhaps from older Gaelic ''Tullich-cul-tir'', or "the mount/hill at the back of the country") is a town in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. Tillicoultry is usually referred to as Tilly by the loc ...

Clackmannanshire Clackmannanshire (; sco, Clackmannanshire; gd, Siorrachd Chlach Mhannainn) is a historic county, council area, registration county and Lieutenancy area in Scotland, bordering the council areas of Stirling, Fife, and Perth & Kinross and the ...

. The club plays its home games at the Public Park in Tillicoultry

History

Hillfoots currently play in the Caledonia League Division 1. They run two senior XVs plus a veterans team. Three of its most famous players John Manson, Danny Herrington and Bob Cairney formed a front row called the 'Tillicoultry Troglodytes'. All three went on to play for Dundee HSFP. The club was awarded the

Scottish Rugby Union The Scottish Rugby Union (SRU; gd, Aonadh Rugbaidh na h-Alba) is the governing body of rugby union in Scotland. Styled as Scottish Rugby, it is the second oldest Rugby Union, having been founded in 1873. The SRU oversees the national league s ...

's club of the month award in 2013. They received a grant to install floodlights in their home ground.

Notable former players

Scotland internationalists

The following former Hillfoots players have represented

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast ...

at full international level.

North and Midlands

The following former Hillfoots players have represented

North and Midlands North and Midlands - and now known as Caledonia - is a select provincial amateur rugby union team that draws its players mainly from north of Scotland, roughly corresponding from around Stirling northwards. Historically the North and Midlands te ...

at provincial level.

Caledonia Reds players

The following former Hillfoots players have represented

Caledonia Reds Caledonia Reds were a Scottish rugby union professional district team who participated in the Scottish Inter-District Championship and in two seasons of the Heineken Cup. They evolved from one of the traditional four amateur districts of Scotlan ...

at professional level.

Honours

* Caledonia Division 2 Midland League ** Winners (1): 2017-18

References

{{Rugby union in Scotland Rugby union teams in Scotland Rugby clubs established in 1880 Tillicoultry Rugby union in Clackmannanshire