It may not be the oldest, but Trinity College can lay claim to being the oldest rugby team in continuous existence, playing the game nonstop (well, not “nonstop,” per say) since 1854. More than a hundred years later, in 1986, they merged with St Helens on the eve of league rugby. Chris Thau looks back on the history of the oldest ongoing rugby fixture in the world, played between two schools in Scotland. The likes of Liverpool St Helens (1857) and Blackheath (1858) cite the fact that the hospital was a closed club with only medics eligible to play and so the ruck for the title of most venerable ‘open’ club rages on. On 24 October 1857, Crewsick and Prest founded Sheffield FC, the oldest surviving football club in the world and today marks their 160th anniversary. 5. However, research by author Peter Manning has established that Crystal Palace - commonly believed even by its own supporters to have been founded in 1905 – can claim a link back to the … The oldest running rugby fixture in the world Chris Thau looks back on the history of the oldest ongoing rugby fixture in the world, played between two schools in Scotland. Attempts to save the country's second oldest rugby club has sparked a war of words between neighbouring country towns over preferential treatment. Football, which may have come to Ireland from Britain, was originally a peasant pastime based on the parish or village. Vasil Lobzhanidze 18 years 340 daysWhen Lobzhanidze crossed the whitewash against Tonga in the 2015 World Cup he became the tournament’s youngest-ever participant, going on to shine in the game against eventual champions New Zealand. But, whisper it in the confines of Guy’s Hospital, Blackheath and other ancients of the game, they could be even older and arguably the oldest rugby club in the world. The Maitland Rugby Club, founded in 1877, claim they are the […] A party from the British and Irish Lions yesterday visited Maitland and the grave of 1888 Lions captain Bob Seddon. Rest of the world …

The jet-heeled scrum-half, who plays his club rugby in France’s D2 with Brive, has already amassed 37 caps for his country and at … According to the Football Association, non-league Sheffield F.C., founded on October 24 th 1857, is the world’s oldest club, and Notts County, founded in November 1862, is the oldest league club.. The South Yorkshire outfit currently competes in the eight-tier Northern Premier League Division One South and plays its home fixtures at the Coach and Horses Ground in Dronfield, Derbyshire. ... Dublin University Football Club is the oldest club in the world in continuous existence. Newtown Jets ~ Millom RLFC is the oldest amateur rugby league club in the world being formed in 1873. Liverpool is generally considered to be the world’s oldest open (to anyone) club from 1857 although they have since merged and are now Liverpool St Helens. So there are Cricket clubs that are very old.
Since 1854 -The oldest rugby club in the world in continuous existence. The 158-year-old club is more likely to be the oldest association football club in the world, with FIFA commemorating their 150th anniversary by awarding it an Order of Merit in 2007. London club Barnes RFC has previously suggested it may be the oldest club in world rugby having been founded in 1839, although like Guy’s Hospital there is a lack of documentation to support this. Guy’s Hospital FC, which was founded in London in 1843 and played its football initially on Kennington Oval, is certainly older, but went into abeyance for some years in the nineteenth century. CONTINUES ON PAGE THREE In Asia, the oldest recorded Rugby Club is Yokohama Rugby Club which was established in 1866 and in Argentina, it is Buenos Aries Rugby and Cricket Club, founded in 1864. The community-owned Greytown Trust Lands Trust has pulled its rental subsidy for 140-year-old Greytown Rugby Club and bowling club's land, meaning both may face closure without a bailout.