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Heriot's
Union	SRU
Founded	1890; 135 years ago
Location	Edinburgh, Scotland
Ground(s)	Goldenacre Sports Ground (Capacity: 3,000+)
President	Gav Stevenson
Coach(es)	Phil Smith
League(s)	Men: Super 6; Women: Scottish Womens Premiership
2021–22	Men: Super 6, 5th of 6 (6th in Playoff); Women: Scottish Womens Premiership, 5th of 6
	Team kit
	Team kit
Official website
	heriotsrugbyclub.co.uk

Heriot's Rugby Club, formerly known as Heriot's FP, is one of Scotland's senior rugby football clubs in the Scottish Rugby Union, whose part-timeprofessional team, Heriot's Rugby play in FOSROC Super 6 with the Men's 1st XV playing in the Men's Scottish Premiership. The women play in Scottish Womens Premiership.

The club's home is in the Goldenacre area in Edinburgh.^[2] The rugby club, founded in 1890, was originally intended for former pupils of George Heriot's School, but is now an open club, welcoming rugby players of all levels.^[2]

Player development starts with a highly successful Mini/Midi Section and moves onto the senior levels. The club has coaching staff that are very well respected in Scottish rugby. Heriot's Rugby club are the only Scottish club never to have been relegated from the first division.

The team had the surprising honour of having a player, Chris Fusaro, called for Scotland A for the IRB Nations Cup, in 2010. He was the only amateur player called and it was announced that he was joining Glasgow Warriors.^[3]

Current men's squad

Heriot's Rugby Super Series squad
Props Struan Cessford Chris Keen Euan McLaren Josh Scott Cairn Ramsay Hookers Cammy Fenton Michael Liness Duncan Hood Locks Jamie Campbell Ronan Seydak	Back row Ben Smith Ruairidh Leishman Charlie Jupp Wallace Nelson Callum Anderson Iain Wilson (c) Scrum halves Euan McAra Fin Campbell Sinjin Broad Andrew Simmers	Fly halves Bruce Houston Ross Jones Centres Grant Hughes Matt Davidson Wings Ben Evans Lewis Wells George Barber Sam Pecqueur Fullbacks Dan King Liam Richman
(c) denotes the team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped players. ^* denotes players qualified to play for Scotland on residency or dual nationality.

Edinburgh Rugby drafted players:

Former Heriot's Players, signed for professional teams from Heriot's:

Cam Jones - Ospreys
Cameron Hutchison - Edinburgh Rugby
Elliot Young - Exeter Chiefs
Sophie Langford - Exeter Chiefs

Table

2023–24 Super Series Table

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Team

P

W

D

L

PF

PA

PD

TBP

LBP

PTS

1

Heriot's Rugby

12

10

1

478

238

+240

10

0

52

2

Ayrshire Bulls (RU)

12

9

0

3

372

211

+151

8

0

47

3

Watsonians

12

9

0

3

265

231

+34

2

0

40

4

Stirling Wolves (CH)

12

6

0

6

422

286

+136

3

2

33

5

Southern Knights

12

4

1

7

282

369

-87

2

1

27

6

Boroughmuir Bears

12

3

0

9

252

389

-137

1

0

17

7

Future XV

12

0

12

206

543

-337

0

3

Yellow background indicates qualification for the final.
Green background indicates semi-finalists.

(CH) Champions. (RU) Runners-up.

Sevens tournament

The club ran an Under 20s Sevens tournament. The teams played for the Goldenacre Cup.^[4]

Notable players

Andy Irvine most capped internationalist (51 caps for Scotland, 1974, 1977, 1980 British and Irish Lions).^[2]
Ken Scotland (27 caps for Scotland, 1959 British and Irish Lions)^[2]^[5]
Dan Drysdale (26 caps for Scotland, 1924 British and Irish Lions) ^[2]^[5]
Jimmy Kerr^[2]
John Craig
Tommy Gray^[2]
Ian Thomson^[2]
Colin Blaikie^[2]
Ian Smith^[2]
Kenny Milne (39 caps for Scotland, 1993 British and Irish Lions)
David Milne^[2]
Bruce Douglas
Simon Taylor (56 caps for Scotland, 2001, 2005 British and Irish Lions)
John Beattie (25 Caps for Scotland, 1980, 1983, 1986 British and Irish Lions)
Jimmy Kerr
Roy Kinnear (3 caps for Scotland, 1929 British and Irish Lions)
Kelvin Hendrie
Iain Milne (44 caps for Scotland, 1983 British and Irish Lions)
Gavin Cameron
Douglas Muir
Cornell du Preez
David Kerr

Honours

Men

Scottish Unofficial Championship
- Champions (5): 1919–20, 1922–23, 1927–28, 1928–29, 1949–50
Scottish Premiership
- Champions (5): 1978–79, 1998–99, 1999–00, 2014–15, 2015-16
- Runners-Up (2): 2004–05, 2008–09
Scottish Cup
- Champions: (4) 2002–03, 2008–09, 2013–14, 2015-16
- Runners-Up: (2) 2007–08, 2018-19
Heriots Sevens^[4]
- Champions: 1951, 1956, 1957
Langholm Sevens
- Champions (6): 1926, 1928, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1954
Melrose Sevens
- Champions (4): 1923, 1954, 1957, 1958
Hawick Sevens
- Champions (8): 1905, 1922, 1926, 1935, 1942, 1947, 1954, 1999
Gala Sevens
- Champions (2): 1973, 2008
Jed-Forest Sevens
- Champions (9): 1925, 1933, 1938, 1939, 1955, 1958, 1987, 2006, 2012
Peebles Sevens
- Champions (7): 1951, 1953, 1958, 1964, 1978, 1983, 1985
Selkirk Sevens
- Champions (2): 1926, 1935
Walkerburn Sevens
- Champions (4): 1953, 1954, 1979, 1982
Middlesex Sevens
- Champions (1): 1949
Edinburgh Northern Sevens
- Champions (5): 1988, 1994, 1999, 2007, 2012^[6]
Huddersfield Sevens
- Champions: 1951^[7]

Women

Edinburgh City Sevens^[8]
- Champions (1): 2023

References

^ "Rugby Union | Edinburgh News". www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Bath, p89
^ "Fusaro handed Scotland A chance". 18 May 2010 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
^ ^a ^b "Heriots Sevens". 26 August 2022.
^ ^a ^b Jones, p44
^ "Edinburgh Northern Sevens". 7 June 2019.
^ "Register". Retrieved 17 March 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ Winners Women's Open

Sources

Bath, Richard (ed.) The Complete Book of Rugby (Seven Oaks Ltd, 1997 ISBN 1-86200-013-1)
Godwin, Terry Complete Who's Who of International Rugby (Cassell, 1987, ISBN 0-7137-1838-2)
Jones, J.R. Encyclopedia of Rugby Union Football (Robert Hale, London, 1976 ISBN 0-7091-5394-5)
Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)