Ilkley Rugby 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 based in

Ilkley Ilkley is a spa town and civil parish in the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, in Northern England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Ilkley civil parish includes the adjacent village of Ben Rhydding and is a ward within the ...

West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in the moors of the Pennines. West Yorkshire came into exi ...

. The first XV team play in

Regional 1 North East Regional 1 North East is a level five league in the English rugby union system, with the twelve teams drawn from across North East England and the East Midlands. The other level five leagues are Regional 1 Midlands, Regional 1 North West, R ...

, The Club has been strengthened this summer with a large influx of new players. Ilkley also has a very successful sevens team who in the 2017 season won the national sevens competition.

Honours

*Yorkshire Shield winners (3): 1993/4, 2010/11, 2013/14 *

Yorkshire 2 Counties 2 Yorkshire, previously known as Yorkshire 2 is an English rugby union league at the eighth tier of the domestic competition for teams from Yorkshire. Club rugby in Yorkshire operates without promotion play-offs meaning that the top tw ...

promotion: 2003/04 * Durham/Northumberland 1 v Yorkshire 1 promotion play-off winners: 2007–08 *

Yorkshire 1 Yorkshire Division One is an English rugby union division, the seventh tier of the domestic competition, and the top level for local rugby union in parts of Yorkshire. The champions are automatically promoted to North 1 East, a division with a ...

champions: 2013–14 *

North 1 East North 1 East is the sixth tier of the English rugby union domestic competition, formed in 1987 using the name North Division 2, involving clubs from the north of the country. There was also division known as North East 1 that began in 1987 fo ...

champions: 2014–15 *National Intermediate Cup finalists: 2014 *National Sevens Champions: 2017 *North 1 East Champions: 2021-22

References

English rugby union teams Ilkley Sport in West Yorkshire Rugby clubs established in 1899 {{england-rugbyunion-team-stub