Peterborough Lions RFC

English rugby union club, based in Cambridgeshire
Rugby team
Peterborough Lions
Full namePeterborough Lions Rugby Football Club
UnionEast Midlands RFU
Founded1944; 80 years ago (1944) (as Westwood RUFC)
LocationBretton, Cambridgeshire
Ground(s)Bretton Woods
ChairmanAndrew Moore
Director of RugbyIan Warrington
Coach(es)Nicholaas du Toit
Captain(s)Joseph Li
Top scorerDylan Evans (2023-24)
League(s)Regional 2 East Midlands
2022–2312th (relegated to Counties 1 Midlands East (South))
Team kit
Official website
www.pitchero.com/clubs/peterboroughlionsrfc/

Peterborough Lions Rugby Football Club, formerly Westwood RUFC, is an English rugby union team based in Bretton near Peterborough.[1] The club runs one senior team, a youth academy team, an under-16s side and four junior teams.[2] with the first XV currently playing in Counties 1 Midlands East (South) following their relegation from Regional 2 East Midlands at the end of the 2022–23 season.[citation needed]

Honours

  • East Midlands 3 champions: 1991–92[a]
  • Midlands 2 East (South) champions: 2011–12
  • Midlands 1 East champions: 2013–14
  • Midlands Premier v North Premier promotion play-off winner: 2017–18

Notes

  1. ^ East Midlands 3 title won when club was known as Westwood RUFC.[3]

References

  1. ^ "CLUB HISTORY". Peterborough Lions RFC. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  2. ^ Club website
  3. ^ Jones, Stephen; Griffiths, John (1992). Rothmans Rugby Union Yearbook 1992-93. Headline. pp. 183–185. ISBN 0-7472-7907-1.

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