JOINING

For newcomers, any appropriate clothing can be worn and you are welcome to a couple of try-out sessions before deciding if you want to join. You can just turn up on one of our training or home mornings, or get in touch with one of the age group contacts listed on the Comittee and Coaches page.

Before you come, please check the important notes on gum shields and footwear in the kit page 

MEMBERSHIP

Players must be registered with the club and with Surrey RFU before they can take part in competitive matches. Annual membership is £65 per child or £95 per family. There are no additional match fees.

Membership and registration are organised by age group managers who can supply the necessary paperwork.

THE HISTORY OF WIMBLEDON RFC.  

The club goes back a long way

Wimbledon’s first recorded match was against Richmond in November 1865, making the club one of the oldest in the country, and one of just twelve surviving clubs that founded the RFU in 1871. The club’s then captain, L.J. Maton, drafted the first laws of the game and went on to become the third president of the RFU in 1875. Also that year two club members, the brothers J.D. and H.J.Graham, gained one and four caps respectively for England .

The club played on Wimbledon Common until World War 1, using the Rose & Crown in Wimbledon   Village as changing rooms and clubhouse.

More recently

The club’s move to its current clubhouse in Barham Road , off Copse Hill, coincided with the launch of league rugby in Britain in 1987/88. Both events have benefited the club considerably.

After being placed, somewhat arbitrarily, in Surrey 2 in the first year of the leagues, Wimbledon began its spectacular rise through them:

• 1 again. Runners-up Surrey Cup, losing to 1988/89. Introduction of leagues. WRFC put in Surrey 2.
• 1989/90. Finished 3rd in Surrey 2.
• 1990/91. Finished 2nd in Surrey 2.
• 1991/92. Finished 2nd in Surrey 2 (on points difference).
• 1992/93. Winners of Surrey 2.
• 1993/94. Winners of Surrey 1.
• 1994/95. Winners of London League 3 South West.
• 1995/96. Winners of London 2 South. (With 26 consecutive league wins on the way).
• 1996/97. Finished mid-London 1.Runners-up Surrey Cup, losing narrowly to Sutton & Epsom.
• 1997/98. Mid-table London 1 again. Runners-up Surrey Cup, losing to Camberley.
• 1998/99. Top half finish in London 1.
• 1999/00. Although coming back strongly after an appalling start to the season (9 straight defeats), finished 6th from bottom in London 1 and, due to the re-structuring of the leagues, were relegated.
• 2000/01. London 2 South. With a new coach, Tim Herman, recruited from Rosslyn   Park , and a new team spirit, finished 4th.
• 2001/02. Finished equal third with Gosport & Fareham, but with 15 wins to their 14. Only a couple of narrow early defeats prevented promotion. The 2nd XV were unlucky to lose the final of their new league.