Burnage Rugby


Burnage Rugby Football Club is an English rugby union team based in Stockport, Greater Manchester. The club runs four senior sides, a colts team and an under-15s side. The first XV plays in Regional 2 North West, a level six league in the English rugby union system. Recently, the club has established an academy, for boys and girls from age under-5 through to under-

History

Burnage Rugby Club was founded as an old boys' club for ex-pupils of Burnage High School in 1936. The club moved from Burnage in South Manchester to a new site at Heaton Mersey in Stockport in the 1970s.

Ground and facilities

As well as three rugby pitches, the site includes a par 3, 9-hole golf and foot-golf course and 3G artificial rugby and football pitches.

Honours

  • North Lancs 2 champions: 1998–99
  • Cumbria v North Lancashire 1 promotion play-off winners: 2004–05
  • South Lancs/Cheshire 1 champions: 2008–09
  • North 1 promotion play-off winners: 2010–11
  • North 1 West champions: 2019–20