Rosslyn Park F.C.

Rosslyn Park
Full name Rosslyn Park Football Club
Founded 1879 (1879)
Location Roehampton, London, England [1]
Ground(s) The Rock, Priory Lane (Capacity: 2,000. Additional games at Richmond Park)
Chairman England Adam Tyrer
President England Geoffrey Bayles
League(s) National League 1
2014–15 2nd
Team kit
Official website
www.rosslynpark.co.uk
The Rosslyn Park squad in 1892.

Rosslyn Park Football Club is a rugby union club based in London. Founded in 1879 by departees of Belsize Park RFC and named after Rosslyn Hill in NW3, the club became the first club based in England to play rugby internationally when it faced Stade Français in Paris on 18 April 1892.[2] In 1912, the club played in Prague, Budapest and Vienna in the first rugby matches ever played in those locations.[2] In 1939, Rosslyn Park inaugurated the annual Rosslyn Park Schools Seven Tournament, which expanded from sixteen schools to 350 in 1996.[2] In 1975 and 1976, the club played in the final of the John Player Cup.

The club runs eight Senior men's sides and a ladies side (the "Slingbacks") who play on Sundays. Rosslyn Park also have one of the country's largest mini- and youth- rugby set-ups with sides at all age groups from under-6s up. The first team currently play in the third division of the English league system, National League One.

The club plays at Priory Lane, Barnes/Roehampton in South-West London on a ground leased from the next-door Roehampton Club. There is only one pitch on at the main site so additional games are played on pitches in the nearby Richmond Park. Changing facilities for both sets of pitches are at the main site in Priory Lane. The clubhouse has two bars, which are named after two of the club's famous players – Andy Ripley and Alexander Obolensky. The floodlights for the main pitch were famously provided by the hell-raising actor Oliver Reed who was also a member of the club and occasional player.

Club honours

Current standings

2015–16 National League 1 Table
Club Played Won Drawn Lost Points for Points against Points diff Try bonus Losing bonus Points
1 Richmond (C) 30 23 2 5 854 534 320 16 4 116
2 Hartpury College 30 21 0 9 966 558 408 15 5 104
3 Blackheath 30 21 2 7 794 488 306 9 6 103
4 Ampthill 30 20 2 8 746 620 126 14 5 103
5 Rosslyn Park 30 20 0 10 745 578 167 12 3 95
6 Darlington Mowden Park 30 19 0 11 766 640 126 11 4 91
7 Esher 30 17 0 13 801 603 198 14 6 88
8 Plymouth Albion 30 22 0 8 733 647 86 11 3 72[n 1]
9 Coventry 30 13 2 15 710 653 57 9 6 71
10 Fylde 30 11 1 18 736 804 –68 11 10 67
11 Blaydon 30 10 0 20 565 772 –207 10 7 57
12 Hull Ionians 30 9 0 21 645 872 –227 10 11 57
13 Loughborough Students 30 9 0 21 680 774 –94 10 9 55
14 Wharfedale (R) 30 6 1 23 592 869 –277 10 7 43
15 Cinderford (R) 30 7 1 22 545 969 –424 7 4 41
16 Henley Hawks (R) 30 6 1 23 478 975 -497 5 3 29
  • Points system: 4 points for a win; 2 points for a draw; 1 point if a team loses by seven points or less (losing bonus); 1 point if the team scores four or more tries in a match (try bonus)
  • If teams are level at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
  1. Number of matches won
  2. Difference between points for and against
  3. Total number of points for
  4. Aggregate number of points scored in matches between tied teams
  5. Number of matches won excluding the first match, then the second and so on until the tie is settled
  1. ↑
    • Plymouth Albion were deducted 30 points for going into administration on 8 April 2016[3]

Green background is the promotion place. Pink background are relegation places.
Updated: 30 April 2016
Source: "National League 1". NCA Rugby. 

Notable former players

Note: Mark Odejobi, Adam Thompstone, Danny Cipriani and Rory Hamilton-Brown were all in the same mini Rosslyn Park team.

References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/20090122220825/http://napit.co.uk:80/viewus/infobank/rugby/rugbyengdiv3/rosslynpark.php. Archived from the original on 22 January 2009. Retrieved 16 February 2009. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. 1 2 3 "A brief history". Official site. Retrieved 2009-01-11.
  3. ↑ "Plymouth Albion taken over by David Venables and Bruce Priday". BBC. Retrieved 11 April 2016.

External links

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