Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire Rugby Football Union

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Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire RFU
Full nameNottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Derbyshire Rugby Football Union
Founded1926;98 years ago (1926)
Region Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire
ChairmanDavid Chamberlin
PresidentMason Cole
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The Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire & Derbyshire Rugby Football Union (NLD RFU) is a governing body for rugby union in part of The Midlands, England. The union is the constituent body of the Rugby Football Union for the counties of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire and Derbyshire, with each county also having its own sub-unions with additional club cup competitions. As well as overseeing club rugby, the Notts, Lincs and Derbyshire RFU also administers the county representative teams.

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History

The Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire Rugby Football Union was formed in 1926. [1] Prior to this clubs in the region had been members of the Midland Counties Football Union which had dissolved several years earlier in 1920.

County team

The Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire senior men's side currently play in the third division of County Championship rugby union. They reached their first County Championship final in 1986, losing 12-9 to Middlesex at Twickenham Stadium, back when it was still a single competition. They had to wait another 20 years for another Twickenham final, finally winning their first county silverware in 2006 when they defeated Oxfordshire 21 - 17 to claim the County Championship Shield. [2] [3] In recent years the team has struggled, at one point even having to drop out of the 2018 County Championship Shield, before returning for the 2019 competition. [4]

Honours

Affiliated clubs

There are 60 clubs currently affiliated to NLD RFU, listed below. Source: [5]
Nottinghamshire

Lincolnshire

Derbyshire

Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire club competitions

The Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire currently run the following competitions for club sides in the region: [6]

Cups

Discontinued competitions

Sub-union club competitions

Additionally, the Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Derbyshire rugby football unions run their own competitions alongside the main NLD cups. [7] [8] [9]

Nottinghamshire

Lincolnshire

Derbyshire

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