Bournville Rugby Football Club is an English rugby union team based in Birmingham. The club has recently moved to new facilities at Avery Fields, 79 Sandon Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B17 8DT. The club operates three senior men's teams, two women's side, a veterans' team and a full range of junior teams. The first XV are the champions of Regional 1 Midlands – a league at tier 5 of the English rugby union system – and are promoted to National League 2 West. The women's team just last year, have been promoted to NC1 (captained by Ashleigh Aiston), and are now the biggest women's rugby team in Birmingham, with a second senior women's team.
History Bournville Rugby Club was formed in 1909 as the rugby section of Bournville Athletic Club. Recent years has seen the club make progress up the rugby union hierarchy after struggling during the early years of the English rugby union league system. Recent seasons has seen the club move from level ten to level four following elevation into the lowest level of national rugby in 2012 when they won promotion to National 3 Midlands via a promotion play-off, after a second-placed finish in Midlands 1 West.
Honours North Midlands 4 champions: 1991–92 North Midlands Shield winners: 2008–09 Midlands 1 (east v west) promotion play-off winners (2): 2011–12, 2016–17 North Midlands Cup winners (2): 2012–13, 2016–17 Midlands 5 West (North) champions: 2006–07 Regional 1 Midlands champions: 2019–20, 2025–26
Notable former players Şerban Ghica
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