Eastern Counties Rugby Union

The Eastern Counties Rugby Union (ECRU) is the governing body for the sport of rugby union in the counties of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk in England. The union is the constituent body of the Rugby Football Union (RFU) for those counties. The ECRU administers and organises rugby union clubs and competitions in those three counties and administers the Eastern Counties county rugby representative teams.

History

The Eastern Counties Rugby Union was founded in 1890 and originally organised rugby union in Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk. Cambridgeshire became part of the ECRU in 1952 and the Essex rugby union eventually split off from ECRU to form its own body.^[1]

Men's senior county team honours

County Championship runners-up: 1948, 1975
County Championship Plate runners-up: 2015
County Championship Shield runners-up: 2007

References

↑ "Our history". Eastern Counties Rugby Union. Retrieved 9 May 2016.

External links

Eastern Counties Rugby Union website

English counties rugby unions

County rugby unions	Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumbria Devon Dorset & Wilts Durham East Midlands Eastern Counties Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Middlesex North Midlands Northumberland Notts, Lincs & Derby Oxfordshire Somerset Staffordshire Surrey Sussex Warwickshire Yorkshire

Defunct county unions	Cumberland Midlands Counties Westmoreland

Major competitions	County Championship County Championship Shield County Championship Plate

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