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Premiership Rugby is an English professional rugby union competition. The Premiership consists of thirteen clubs, and is the top division of the English rugby union system. Premiership clubs qualify for Europe's two main club competitions, the European Rugby Champions Cup and the European Rugby Challenge Cup. The winner of the second division, the RFU Championship is promoted to the Premiership and until 2020, the team finishing at the bottom of the Premiership each season was relegated to the Championship.
Harlequins is a professional rugby union club that plays in Premiership Rugby, the top level of English rugby union.
The London Broncos are the only professional rugby league club in the south of England. Most recently the club have played at Rosslyn Park's The Rock, in Roehampton between April and May 2021. In July 2021, a ground-share agreement for Plough Lane in Wimbledon, London, as tenants of EFL League One football club AFC Wimbledon was approved. While negotiations about the use of Plough Lane continued the team played its fixtures at Ealing Trailfinders' ground, Trailfinders Sports Ground.
Twickenham Stoop Stadium is a sports stadium located in south-west London, England. The stadium is home to Harlequins rugby union team, who play in the Gallagher Premiership. The stadium has a capacity of 14,800 and is situated just across the road from Twickenham Stadium.
Daniel Crawford Orr, is an English rugby league coach and former player. He is an assistant coach of the Castleford Tigers. A Great Britain international representative stand-off or scrum-half, Orr played in the Super League for the Castleford Tigers, Harlequins RL and the Wigan Warriors.
Matt Henjak is an Australian former professional rugby union player. He played scrum-half for the Australian national team. Henjak, of Croatian ancestry, is the nephew of former rugby league half-back and former Brisbane Broncos head coach Ivan Henjak. After being sacked by the Western Force in 2008 for an off field indiscretion, Henjak signed for Toulon in the Top 14 in France where he played until 2012. He played a further season in France with Dax in the Pro D2 competition.
Rob Purdham is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. An England international representative loose forward, he previously played for Whitehaven and London Broncos/Harlequins. Purdham also operated as a centre, stand-off or second-row. Purdham is a former captain of the England national team.
The Dallas Harlequins Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team based in Dallas, Texas. The Harlequins formerly played in the SuperLeague, but now play in the Texas Rugby Union Men's Division 1.
Luke Dorn is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played as a fullback, stand-off and scrum-half in the NRL and the Super League in the 2000s and 2010s.
Karl Temata is a former Cook Islands international rugby league footballer who played as a prop, second-row, loose forward or winger in the 2000s and 2010s. He played at club level for the Hibiscus Coast Raiders, New Zealand Warriors, London Broncos/Harlequins and Oxford.
Daniel Heckenberg is a former Scotland international rugby league footballer. He played as a prop at club level in the NRL for the St. George Illawarra Dragons, Parramatta Eels and the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, in the Super League for Harlequins RL, and in the RFL Championship for the Widnes Vikings,.
Tony Clubb was an English professional rugby league footballer who played as a prop for the Wigan Warriors in the Betfred Super League and has played for England at international level.
Maurie Fa'asavalu is a former professional rugby union and rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. He has played representative level rugby union (RU) for Samoa, and at club level for Taula Apia Rugby Union, Harlequins and Oyonnax, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain and England, and at club level for St. Helens. He was selected for the Great Britain national rugby league team squad in 2007, after living in England for 4 years. He returned to rugby union in October 2010, having signed for Harlequins for the 2010–11 English Premiership season. He then transferred to Oyonnax in France.
Ben Kaye is an English rugby league footballer who plays as a hooker for Batley Bulldogs in the Betfred Championship.
James Horwill is an Australian former rugby union player, who has played for the Australian national side, with 61 caps to his name. He captained the Wallabies a number of times, including during the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Horwill played ten seasons in Super Rugby for the Queensland Reds, followed by four seasons with English club Harlequins. His position was second row.
Chris Robshaw is an English rugby union player for Major League Rugby side San Diego Legion. He was the captain of the England national rugby union team from January 2012 until December 2015. Robshaw's position of choice is in the back row of the scrum, usually flanker.
Olsi Krasniqi is an Albanian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a prop for the London Broncos in the Betfred Championship.
Karl Dickson, is an English professional rugby union referee. He is pursuing a career in refereeing and coaches at St. John's school in Leatherhead. He previously played for Harlequins in Premiership Rugby and was a scrum half.
Kyle Sinckler is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a tighthead prop for Premiership club Bristol Bears and the English national team. He has previously played for Harlequins, Richmond and Ealing Trailfinders.
Djustice Sears-Duru is a Canada international rugby union prop who plays for Ealing Trailfinders and the Seattle Seawolves of Major League Rugby (MLR).