The University of Western Australia Rugby Club, also known as the UWA Rugby Club, is an Australian semi-professional rugby club based in Perth, Western Australia and is associated with the University of Western Australia (UWA). The club competes in the RugbyWA Premier Grade, the highest-tier of rugby exclusively played within the state of Western Australia.
The club was created in 1929 ahead of a match between Claremont-Cottesloe No. 2 that was played on Claremont Oval. This was also the teams first season. The club won two out of ten games in the A Grade division, finishing second-last. Cottesloe is also acknowledged to be the oldest rival of UWA, known as the "Original Feud".
Since the inclusion of the Perth-based Western Force rugby team into the Super Rugby competition in 2006, many players from the Western Force are "allocated" or "assigned" to a Premier Grade club such as the UWA Rugby Club.
Honours Premier Grade Premierships Year Premiers Score Runners-up 2014UWA 16–13 Cottesloe2011UWA 15–13 Nedlands1972UWA 7–6 Western Suburbs1968UWA 9–8 Western Suburbs1967UWA 30–9 Nedlands1958UWA 11–8 Western Suburbs1954UWA 20–6 Cottesloe1951UWA 31–13 Western Suburbs1947South Perth 17–18 UWA1941UWA 13–10 RAAF1935UWA 9–8 Perth
International representatives
Australia
Art Turnbull (1961) John Welborn (1996) Ryan Cross (2008) David Pocock (2008) Carlo Tizzano (2024)
Notes
References
See also
RugbyWA Premier Grade Rugby union in Western Australia
External links UWA Rugby Club – Official website