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Coventry Rugby Football Club
Butts Park Arena
Butts Road
Coventry
CV1 3GE | map
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Tel: 0871 750 9100

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The formation of Coventry Rugby Football Club dates back to a game which took place in 1874 between a Coventry XV and Allesley. As was not uncommon at the time, the game was a mixture of Association and Rugby rules, with one half being played to each set of rules. To complicate matters further, many members of the Coventry XV were from Stoke Cricket Club. From these beginnings, the club began to establish itself at the Butts Ground until they were ousted to make way for a Northern Union (Rugby League) team in 1911. The team was re-constituted and began to play elsewhere, finally settling at Coundon Road in 1921, where they stayed until 2004 when they moved to the new Butts Park Arena. The club probably enjoyed its heyday in the sixties and seventies when it provided a whole string of internationals for England. These included David Duckham was capped 36 times in all for England and scored 10 tries from the Wing position. Since the commencement of the professional era, Coventry has always been at the brink of Premier League status, coming within 40 minutes of achieving promotion in 1996, only to lose out to London Irish.


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