Finding a rugby club used to mean a half-remembered Facebook page, a pitch address that turned out to be a car park, and a training time that changed two seasons ago. Rugby Football Club Finder exists to fix exactly that:
type a location, pick a radius, and every club in range appears on a map and in a list, with the details you need before you turn up.
Search by location, not by name
Most directories assume you already know the club you are looking for. If you have just moved to a new city, started university, or simply want to play again after a few years off, you do not. So the search starts from where you are. Enter a town, a postcode or a neighbourhood, or let the app use your current position, and choose how far you are prepared to travel. The map centres there and shows a pin for every rugby club within that radius, while the list beneath ranks them by distance.
Because the search is geographic, you can drag the map to explore. Pan towards the next town and the list updates to what is in view; zoom out and more of the region comes into range. It is the same way you would look for a coffee shop, and it works just as well for a scrum.
Filter for the rugby you actually want to play
Not every club fields every kind of side, and not every player wants the same thing. The filter chips above the results narrow the map to what fits. Looking for a women’s team? A youth section for your kids? A mixed side, or an old boys’ team that still turns out on Sundays? Tap the chip and the pins that do not match drop away. The standard a side plays at, from social to the top division, is on its profile.
Clubs that run several sides are still one club on the map, with each side listed on its profile. That matters: a club with a men’s first XV, a women’s team and an under-16 section shows up under every one of those filters, so a family looking for somewhere everyone can play finds it once rather than three times.
What a club profile tells you before you visit
Tap a pin or a list entry and the club’s profile opens, tinted in the club’s own colours. A profile that its manager has claimed and filled in gives you:
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The sides it fields, with the category and division each plays in.
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Practice days and times, so you know when to show up and watch a session.
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The training ground and home pitch, with the address you can open in your maps app.
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A short description of who the club welcomes: beginners, returning players, experienced recruits.
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Contact details and social links, so you can send a message before your first session.
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The current roster of players and coaching staff who have joined through the app.
Some listings are still seeded directory entries waiting for their club to claim them. Those show a name and a location, and a prompt for the club to
claim the profile. If your local club is one of them, tell them. It takes a manager a few minutes to make the listing useful to the next person who searches.
Turning a search into a first training session
The best way to choose a club is to train with two or three. Rugby clubs are almost universally welcoming to new faces at practice, and one session tells you more about the coaching, the standard and the social side than any website can. Use the practice times on the profile to plan a week where you visit each shortlisted club, and message ahead so someone expects you.
Once you have picked one,
sign up as a player, build your player card with your positions and a line about yourself, and request to join the club. The manager approves you, and from then on you appear on the club’s roster, get asked whether you are coming to practice, and see the club’s fixtures and kit in one place. That whole side of the app is covered in
our guide to player profiles.
A note for clubs
Every search on this site is someone looking for somewhere to play. A claimed, complete profile is how your club shows up when they do, and it is free. If you run a club, read
why claiming your profile matters.