WHY JOIN?

When you join the Melbourne Rugby Union Club you don’t just join a club, you join in with the success that only a fun and friendly culture can provide. Couple that culture with some of the best facilities and coaches in Victoria and why would you look anywhere else?

Rugby Union is a true team sport suitable for boys and girls of all shapes and sizes, and fitness levels. The Melbourne Rugby club provides an opportunity to develop sporting and confidence skills.

The Melbourne Rugby Club has over one hundred years of history and provides a well run family oriented programme based on the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) model, Coaching Kids Rugby. When you belong to Melbourne Rugby you know your child will be safe in a team environment with an emphasis on developing sports and life skills. Our coaches are all at a minimum ARU Smart Rugby accredited and have passed a mandatory ‘Working with Children’ check.

The Melbourne Rugby Club is a proud Melbourne-based club developing local talent. We welcome players from interstate as well as overseas. And have players originating from Tonga, South Africa, New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa, the United Kingdom, France, Canada and Brazil.

The Melbourne Rugby Club fields teams in U6 – U16 and U18 provides a pathway through to the senior club section through Colts and open grade teams. The rugby season in Victoria gets underway in the first week of May and concludes with finals in early September.