Edinburgh Academical Football Club
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Edinburgh Academical Football Club, also known as Edinburgh Accies, is a rugby union club in Edinburgh, Scotland. The club is currently a member of the Scottish Premiership, the top tier of Scottish club rugby. Its home ground is Raeburn Place, in Stockbridge, Edinburgh. The team is coached by Iain Berthinussen.
The club regularly fields three teams and is also involved with Broughton and Trinity Accies in the Edinburgh BATs initiative, a community amateur sports club providing youth rugby across northern Edinburgh.
History
The club was formed in 1857 and is the oldest surviving football club of any code in Scotland,[1] and the second oldest rugby union club in continuous existence in the world, behind Dublin University Football Club (founded 1854). They were one of the founding members of the Scottish Rugby Union.
In the 1873–74 season, they played ten matches, and won all of them.[2]
In season 2007–08, the club's 1st XV finished second in Premiership Division 2, thereby securing promotion to the Premiership Division 1. That same season they experienced a successful Scottish Cup run, reaching the final with victories over Premiership 1 teams Currie, Hawick and Boroughmuir. The team lost the final 24–13 to the Glasgow Hawks. The club played a match against the Barbarians in April 2008 to mark the club's 150th anniversary.[3] A book was also published that had been commissioned to celebrate the club's 150th anniversary, The Accies: The Cradle of Scottish Rugby.[4]
In season 2009–10 the club's 1st XV was relegated to Scottish Premier Division 2 after they lost to Heriot's FP in the last game of the season and on the same day Watsonian's beat Melrose.
In season 2010–11 the club were Premier 2 League champions and returned to the top level of Scottish club rugby, the Premier 1 League, for the 2011–12 season. They remained in the Scottish Premiership after the restructure of the Scottish league system.
Ground
The Accies' home ground, Raeburn Place, is the location of the first rugby international. Seven players of the original Scotland side were Academicals, including the captain, FJ Moncrieff.[2]
Honours
Men
- Scottish Unofficial Championship
- Champions (16 + 4 shared): 1865–66, 1866–67, 1867–68, 1868–69, 1870–71, 1874–75, 1876–77 (with Glasgow Academicals), 1877–78, 1878–79 (with Glasgow Academicals), 1879–80 (with Glasgow Academicals), 1885–86, 1886–87, 1887–88, 1897–98, 1898–99, 1899–1900 (with Edinburgh University and Hawick), 1905–06, 1929–30, 1955–56
- Scottish National League Division One
- Champions (3): 1996–97, 2010–11, 2017–18
- Runners–Up (2): 2007–08, 2016–17
- Scottish National League Division Two
- Champions (2): 1999–00, 2003–04
- Scottish Cup
- Runners–Up (2): 2006–07, 2023–24
- Langholm Sevens
- Champions (1): 1929
- Melrose Sevens
- Champions (3): 1928, 1930, 1949
- Hawick Sevens
- Champions (3): 1929, 1936, 1946 (jointly fielded team with Edinburgh Wanderers)
- Gala Sevens
- Champions (1): 2019
- Peebles Sevens
- Champions (3): 1947 (jointly fielded team with Edinburgh Wanderers), 1984, 1989
- Edinburgh Charity Sevens[5]
- Champions (5): 1929, 1932, 1933, 1942 (jointly fielded team with Edinburgh Wanderers), 1945 (jointly fielded team with Edinburgh Wanderers)
- Highland Sevens[6]
- Champions (9): 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1954, 1970, 1998
- Edinburgh Borderers Sevens[7]
- Champions (1): 1966
- Broughton Sevens[8]
- Champions (1): 2007
- Lismore Sevens[9]
- Champions (4): 1975, 1982, 1986, 1991
- Haddington Sevens[10]
- Champions (1): 1989
- Edinburgh Northern Sevens[11]
- Champions (1): 2015
- Musselburgh Sevens[12]
- Champions (2): 1979, 1992
- Berwick Sevens
- Champions (1): 2023
Women
- Mull Sevens
- Champions (4): 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997
- Edinburgh Northern Sevens[13]
- Champions (1): 2001
Notable players
British and Irish Lions
The following former Edinburgh Academical players have represented the British and Irish Lions.
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Scotland internationalists
The following (not previously listed above) former Edinburgh Academical players have represented Scotland at full international level in rugby union.
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- Template:Flagicon John Allan
- Template:Flagicon Lewis Bell
- Template:Flagicon Dave Callam
- Template:Flagicon Alexander Clay
- Template:Flagicon Jack Crabbie
- Template:Flagicon George Crabbie
- Template:Flagicon David Denton
- Template:Flagicon Francis Dods
- Template:Flagicon John Dods
- Template:Flagicon Cornell du Preez
- Template:Flagicon Douglas Elliot
- Template:Flagicon Arthur Finlay
- Template:Flagicon James Finlay
- Template:Flagicon Ninian Finlay
- Template:Flagicon George Gallie
- Template:Flagicon John Gordon
- Template:Flagicon Ian Graham
- Template:Flagicon Gussie Graham
- Template:Flagicon Chris Gray
- Template:Flagicon Ian Henderson
- Template:Flagicon Mac Henderson
- Template:Flagicon Hamish Inglis
- Template:Flagicon Bulldog Irvine
- Template:Flagicon Duncan Irvine
- Template:Flagicon Walter Irvine
- Template:Flagicon William Lyall
- Template:Flagicon Donnie Macfadyen
- Template:Flagicon John Macphail
- Template:Flagicon George Macleod
- Template:Flagicon Arthur Marshall
- Template:Flagicon William Marshall
- Template:Flagicon Hugh Martin
- Template:Flagicon George Maxwell
- Template:Flagicon Tommy McClung
- Template:Flagicon John McCrow
- Template:Flagicon Bill McEwan
- Template:Flagicon Saxon McEwan
- Template:Flagicon Dave McIvor
- Template:Flagicon James Mein
- Template:Flagicon Stuart Moffat
- Template:Flagicon Alex Moore
- Template:Flagicon William Morrison
- Template:Flagicon Scott Murray
- Template:Flagicon Brian Neill
- Template:Flagicon George Paterson
- Template:Flagicon Tom Philip
- Template:Flagicon Charles Reid
- Template:Flagicon James Reid
- Template:Flagicon Jeremy Richardson
- Template:Flagicon Alec Robertson
- Template:Flagicon Duncan Robertson
- Template:Flagicon Ernest Roland
- Template:Flagicon Graham Ross
- Template:Flagicon William Roughead
- Template:Flagicon James Sanderson
- Template:Flagicon Jock Scott
- Template:Flagicon Hamish Shaw
- Template:Flagicon Allen Sloan
- Template:Flagicon Donald Sloan
- Template:Flagicon Pat Smeaton
- Template:Flagicon Errol Smith
- Template:Flagicon Archibald Stewart
- Template:Flagicon Barry Stewart
- Template:Flagicon Jock Stewart
- Template:Flagicon John Guthrie Tait
- Template:Flagicon Thomas Torrie
- Template:Flagicon Phipps Turnbull
- Template:Flagicon Gordon Watt
- Template:Flagicon Tom White
- Template:Flagicon Francis Wright
- Template:Flagicon Arthur Young
Other internationalists
The following former Edinburgh Academical players have represented their nations at full international level.
Cross-Sporting internationalists
Cricket
The following former Edinburgh Academical players have represented both the Scotland rugby union team and the Scotland cricket team.[14]
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Rugby league
The following have represented Scotland at full international level.
SRU presidents
Former Edinburgh Academicals have been President of the SRU:
- 1883–84 Gussie Graham
- 1893–94 Leslie Balfour-Melville
References
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Complete Book of Rugby (Seven Oaks Ltd, 1997, Template:ISBN).
- Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; Template:ISBN).
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External links
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- 'The Accies – The Cradle of Scottish Rugby' – Club history written by David Barnes
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