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{{Short description|Scottish rugby union club, based in Musselburgh}}
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  | fullname   = Musselburgh Rugby Football Club
  | location = [[Musselburgh]], [[Scotland]] 
  | founded = {{Start date and age|15 February 1921}}
  | ground     = Stoneyhill
  | capacity = 3,000<ref>{{cite web|title=Musselburgh RFC|url=https://betsapi.com/t/300474/Musselburgh-RFC|publisher=BetsAPI|access-date=13 January 2024}}</ref>
  | url   = https://www.musselburghrfc.com/
  | president  = Blair Stewart
  | coach    =  Andrew Clark
  | captain    =  Rory Watt 
  | league = {{Scottish rugby updater|Musselburgh}}
  | season = {{Scottish rugby updater|Musselburgh2}}
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'''Musselburgh Rugby Football Club''' is a [[rugby union]] club based in [[Musselburgh]], [[East Lothian]], [[Scotland]]. The team play their home games at Stoneyhill and currently compete in the {{Scottish rugby updater|Musselburgh}}, the top tier of Scottish club rugby.

Musselburgh RFC first applied to join the Edinburgh & District League in 1921 but it is believed that the town had a team for at least 20 years before that.

==History==

The club was formed in 1921 as a section of the Musselburgh Sports Club. They initially played their games at Shirehaugh which is now a practice green at The Musselburgh Golf Club in Monktonhall. During the 1930s The Musselburgh Sports Club changed its name to become Musselburgh Rugby Football Club in its entirety.

During 1951, the club moved from its home at Shirehaugh to a new pitch at Stoneyhill where the club currently resides. A clubhouse was built on the site and opened in 1971, with changing rooms added in 1984 and a gym added in 2021.

After the creation of the new leagues in Scotland the club were placed in the third division, ultimately falling to fifth division in 1975. However they bounced back and continued to climb up the leagues where they were promoted to the Premiership for the first time in 1987, lasting one season before being relegated.

The club continued to stay around the second and third tiers before a sharp fall to the regional leagues in the late 2000s. The team slowly climbed their way back up to the National leagues before winning National 2 in 2015. With the formation of the Super6 in 2018, the top six teams from National 1 had the chance to be promoted to the Premiership to join the remaining four teams. Musselburgh claimed a bonus point on the final day of the season to win the final spot.

==Musselburgh Sevens==

The club runs the Musselburgh Sevens tournament.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://scottishsevens.sport.blog/musselburgh-sevens/|title=Musselburgh Sevens|date=June 7, 2019}}</ref>

==Honours==

*[[Scottish National League Division Two]]
** Champions (2): 1984–85, 2014–15
*Musselburgh Sevens
** Champions: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1957, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1997, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2019<ref name="auto" />
*Highland Sevens
**Champions: 1956, 1958, 1963, 1978, 1979<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scottishsevens.sport.blog/highland-sevens/|title=Highland Sevens|date=June 10, 2019}}</ref>
* Preston Lodge Sevens
** Champions: 1992, 1993<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scottishsevens.sport.blog/preston-lodge-sevens/|title=Preston Lodge Sevens|date=June 9, 2019}}</ref>
* Glasgow University Sevens
** Champions: 1957<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scottishsevens.sport.blog/glasgow-university-sevens/|title=Glasgow University Sevens|date=June 7, 2019}}</ref>
* Kelso Harlequins Sevens
** Champions: 1990<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scottishsevens.sport.blog/kelso-harlequins-sevens/|title=Kelso Harlequins Sevens|date=June 7, 2019}}</ref>
* Haddington Sevens
** Champions: 1993, 1995<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scottishsevens.sport.blog/haddington-sevens/|title=Haddington Sevens|date=June 7, 2019}}</ref>
* North Berwick Sevens
** Champions: 2002, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2023,2024,2025<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scottishsevens.sport.blog/north-berwick-sevens/|title=North Berwick Sevens|date=August 19, 2022}}</ref>
* Scottish Rugby Shield
** Runners-Up: (1) 2011-12
*[[Kelso Sevens]]
** Champions (1): 1955<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scottishsevens.sport.blog/kelso-sevens/|title=Kelso Sevens|date=June 7, 2019}}</ref>
*[[Peebles Sevens]]
** Champions (3): 1986, 1988, 1997<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scottishsevens.sport.blog/peebles-sevens/|title=Peebles Sevens|date=June 7, 2019}}</ref>
*[[Walkerburn Sevens]]
** Champions (9): 1951, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1990, 1993, 2002, 2003<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scottishsevens.sport.blog/walkerburn-sevens/|title=Walkerburn Sevens|date=June 7, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Edinburgh Northern Sevens]]
** Champions (1): 2013<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scottishsevens.sport.blog/inverleith-sevens/|title=Edinburgh Northern Sevens|date=7 June 2019}}</ref>
* Portobello Sevens
** Champions (1): 2023<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scottishsevens.sport.blog/portobello-sevens/|title=Portobello Sevens|date=10 June 2019}}</ref>

==Notable former players==

===Ireland internationalists===

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* {{flagicon|Ireland|rugby union}} [[Marney Cunningham]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19560507&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|title=The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}}</ref>
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===Glasgow Warriors players===

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* {{flagicon|SCO}} [[Alan Kittle]]
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===Edinburgh District===

The following former Musselburgh players have represented [[Edinburgh District (rugby union)|Edinburgh District]] at provincial level.
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* {{flagicon|Scotland}} D. Macdonald<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FsNAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=16UMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3825,141421|title=The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}}</ref>
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==References==
{{reflist}}
* Massie, Allan ''A Portrait of Scottish Rugby'' (Polygon, Edinburgh; {{ISBN|0-904919-84-6}})

==External links==
* {{official website}}

{{SRU premiership}}
{{Rugby union in East Lothian}}

[[Category:Rugby union in East Lothian]]
[[Category:Rugby union teams in Scotland]]
[[Category:Musselburgh]]
[[Category:Rugby clubs established in 1921]]
[[Category:1921 establishments in Scotland]]


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