The 1898–99 Rugby Union County Championship was the 12th edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time.

Durham won the competition for the first time defeating Devon in the final.

Final

A Richards Barnstaple Sydney Coopper R.N.E College T Mills Plymouth H J Vyvyan Albion H B J Taylor Newton Abbot J Jones Unattached T Dunn Torquay Athletic Charlie Thomas (capt) Barnstaple A O'Neill Torquay Athletic W Spiers Devonport Albion P Baron Sidmouth J Powell Exeter C Avery Plymouth Denys Dobson Newton Abbot & Oxford University E W Roberts R.N.E College J Hegg West Hartlepool W Taylor Tudhoe J Gordon Tudhoe W S Cox Sunderland E W Elliott Sunderland W Moffatt Sunderland H Gibbon Hamsteels J Frater Tudhoe J Carmidy Tudhoe A Stephenson Tudhoe G Richardson Tudhoe George Summerscale Durham City G H Lewis West Hartlepool G Simms West Hartlepool Hamm Tudhoe

See also English rugby union system Rugby union in England

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