Loughborough RFC
| Full name | Loughborough Rugby Football Club | |
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| Union | Leicestershire RU | |
| Founded | 1929 | |
| Location | Loughborough, Leicestershire, England | |
| Ground | Derby Road Playing Fields | |
| Chairman | Ian Johnson | |
| President | Ian Johnson | |
| Captain | David Hunter/Danni Allen-Solly | |
| League | Counties 1 Midlands East (North) | |
| 2024–25 | 10th (relegated to Counties 2 Midlands East (North)) | |
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| Official website | ||
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Loughborough Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club in Loughborough, United Kingdom that has been in existence since 1929. The club has over 300 players and supported by over fifty volunteers. It has a large minis and juniors section, two regular men's teams playing on saturdays and a women's team that play in the Championship North league (2nd tier) on sundays.
== In 1929 a handful of players, met and decided to form the club. The club was and still is a rugby union football club, the game of rugby having grown to be very distinct from what we now know as association football (soccer).
Loughborough regularly fields four men's sides on a Saturday, as well as having one of the best attended Mini and Junior sections in the county. Loughborough RFC is affiliated to the Leicestershire Rugby Union (LRU), the Rugby Football Union and the Rugby Football Union for Women. The club now plays its matches on Derby Road Playing Fields and has its own purpose built clubhouse, six changing rooms and four pitches.
The 1st XV played league fixtures in Midlands 1 East for the first time in the 2011–12 Season. In the 2010–11 season Loughborough finished second in Midlands 2 East (North), winning a promotion play-off against Peterborough Lions to gain promotion. The club managed to build on the success of the previous year and stayed in Midlands 1 East for another season, finishing . Andrew York stays on for a second term as 1st XV Captain, while Chris Campbell is continuing as head coach and Jason Button has been signed as Director of Rugby.
The club has reached the final of the Leicestershire County Bowl, beating Vipers RFC two years in succession to lift the trophy. (Oddly enough, the 'Bowl' is actually a cup. This should not be seen as being too odd though as when Loughborough won the Leicestershire County Plate, the plate was in fact a shield.) This season Loughborough's attempt to lift the trophy for a third successive year was thwarted by Leicester Forest, a close and hard-fought game ending with a 12-10 victory for the Leicester outfit.