Haywards Heath RFC

Haywards Heath
Full nameHaywards Heath Rugby Football Club
NicknameHeath
Founded1950 (1950)
LocationCuckfield, West Sussex, England
GroundWhitemans Green
Chairman Dan Vander
President Mark Newey BME
Coach Graham Childs
Captain Wilf Bridges
LeagueCounties 1 Surrey/Sussex
2024–259th
Official website
www.hhrfc.co.uk

Haywards Heath Rugby Football Club is an English rugby union team. The first XV currently play in Counties 1 Surrey/Sussex, the seventh tier of English rugby union competition. The club also has a number of other teams, with their 2nd XV currently playing in the Harvey's Brewery Counties 3 Sussex (level 12). They used to run a 4th team called "The Dinos" named after the dinosaur fossil discovered by Gideon Mantell on what is now their playing fields. The under-6's have now taken on the Dino's mantle.

Honours

1st team:

2nd team:

Club colours

The current club colours are black and red hoops.

Notable former players

Haywards Heath have a long-standing record of developing players who go on to play professional rugby. These include the following players :

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Despite winning L2SE and being promoted to London 1 South for 2020–1 (season cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic), Haywards Heath 1XV withdrew from L1S ahead of the 2021–22 season and instead competed in Harvey's of Sussex 2 in season 2021–22.
  2. ^ Despite winning the league – Haywards Heath II were demoted to Sussex Late Red 3 due to the Haywards Heath 1st team being relegated to Sussex Spitfire 1.

References

  1. ^ "Stong Future On The Horizon For Senior Rugby At Heath". 20 August 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.