Hinckley RFC

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Hinckley
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Full nameHinckley Rugby Football Club
Union Leicestershire RU
Nickname(s)Hornets
Founded1893;132 years ago (1893)
Location Hinckley, Leicestershire, England
Ground(s) Leicester Road
ChairmanJohn Tilley
PresidentRoger Edwards
Captain(s)Rory Vowles
League(s) National League 2 West
2024–25 9th
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Official website
www.hinckleyrugby.co.uk

Hinckley Rugby Club is an English rugby union team based in Hinckley, Leicestershire. The club runs six senior sides, a ladies team and a full set of junior teams (including a girls only section). [1] The first XV currently play in National League 2 West, a fourth tier league in the English rugby union system.

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History

Hinckley Rugby Club was formed in 1892 with the first matches being played the following year. As with many clubs, Hinckley moved regularly during the early years of the 20th-century before moving to Coventry Road in 1929 and to its current Leicester Road location just under forty years later. After a strong 1970s, the 1980s were unkind to Hinckley and when the league system was formed the club suffered three consecutive relegations. However, fortunes improved in the 1990s and they started to move back up the rugby hierarchy and reached the National leagues by the end of the 1990s. [2]

Honours

Current standings

2025–26 National League 2 West table
PosTeamPldWDLPFPAPDTBLBPtsQualification
1 Barnstaple 0000000000Promotion place
2 Camborne 0000000000
3 Chester 0000000000
4 Cinderford 0000000000
5 Exeter University 0000000000
6 Hinckley 0000000000
7 Hornets 0000000000
8 Loughborough Students 0000000000
9 Luctonians 0000000000
10 Lymm 0000000000
11 Old Redcliffians 0000000000
12 Redruth 0000000000
13 Syston 0000000000Relegation place
14 Taunton Titans 0000000000
First match(es) will be played: September 2025. Source: National League Rugby [3]
Rules for classification: If teams are level at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
  1. Number of matches won
  2. Number of matches drawn
  3. Difference between points for and against
  4. Total number of points for
  5. Aggregate number of points scored in matches between tied teams
  6. Number of matches won excluding the first match, then the second and so on until the tie is settled

References

  1. Club website home page
  2. Club website history
  3. "National League 2 West". NCA Rugby.