The Gympie club was one of the clubs to contest the 1982 Sunshine Coast Rugby Union competition. Formed in 1980 and briefly folded in 2009
Gympie Hammers Rugby Union Club re-joined the Sunshine Coast competition in 2014 and has been going strong since. Their junior numbers as of 2022 are in excess of 250 players, with both a men's and women's Rugby teams competing on a senior level [5][1][6][7][8]