Sport | Rugby Union |
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Instituted | 1890 |
Number of teams | 2 |
Country | ![]() |
Holders | Weybridge Vandals RFC (1st title) (2018-19) |
Most titles | Sutton & Epsom (10 titles) |
Website | Surrey RFU |
The Surrey Cup is an annual rugby union knock-out club competition organized by the Surrey Rugby Football Union. The original cup competition was first played for back in 1890, the inaugural winners being Lennox, but was discontinued in 1909, having been held intermittently over 20 seasons, due to cup competitions being considerable 'undesirable'. The cup was reintroduced around 50 years later for the 1970–71 season, with the first winners of the modern competition being Guildford & Godalming.[1] It is the most important rugby union cup competition in Surrey, ahead of the Surrey Trophy, Surrey Shield and Surrey Bowl.
At present the Surrey Cup is a much smaller competition than it used to be with only a few clubs based in tier 5 (National League 3 London & SE) of the English rugby union league system taking part along with 2nd teams of teams in tiers 3-4 (National League 1 and National League 2 South). The final is held at Molesey Road, Hersham (home of Esher RFC) in May - on the same date and venue as the other Surrey finals.[2]
Surrey Cup winners
[edit]Number of wins
[edit]- Sutton & Epsom (10)[a 1]
- Esher (8)
- Richmond (6)
- Streatham-Croydon (6)[a 2]
- Guildford (4)[a 3]
- London Irish (4)
- Camberley (3)
- Dorking (3)
- Old Mid-Whitgiftians (3)
- London Devonians (2)
- Old Alleynians (2)
- Battersea (1)
- Customs Sports (1)
- Effingham & Leatherhead (1)
- Kingston (1)
- KCS Old Boys (1)
- Lennox (1)
- London Irish Wild Geese (1)
- Old Whitgiftian (1)
- Rosslyn Park (1)
- Surbiton (1)
- Wimbledon II (1)
- Weybridge Vandals (1)
Notes
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Finals Day Programme 2016/17. Surrey RFU. 2017. p. 26.
- ^ "Incentive FM Surrey Cup 2016 - 2017". Surrey RFU. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
- ^ "EFFINGHAM DESPATCH NEIGHBOURS IN SURREY CUP". Get Surrey. 23 April 1999.
- ^ "Surrey Cup semi-final news Dorking's Rich prize : DORKING 22pts WIMBLEDON 12". Get Surrey. 30 March 2001.
- ^ "Famous victory for Sutton & Epsom". Croydon Guardian. 17 March 2008.
- ^ "Dorking beaten but not bowed in Surrey Cup final". Surrey Mirror. 7 May 2009.
- ^ "Dorking win Surrey Cup". Surrey Mirror. 5 May 2010.
- ^ "InPlay" (PDF). Surrey RFU. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
- ^ "Red & Whites fall just short despite a heroic final effort". Dorking & Leatherhead Advertiser. 11 May 2012.
- ^ "Richie Andrews proud of Dorking despite defeat". Surrey Mirror. 24 April 2013.
- ^ "Dorking complete league and cup double with victory against Esher". Dorking & Leatherhead Advertiser. 6 May 2014.
- ^ "Finals day at Esher Rugby Club". Esher Rugby. 30 April 2014.
- ^ "Guildford Trump King's With Their Ace In The Pack". King's Rugby (Pitchero). 4 May 2015.
- ^ "InPlay". Surrey RFU. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
- ^ "Surrey Finals Day - Guildford Results!". Guildford Rugby (Pitchero). 23 May 2017.
- ^ "Surrey Cup Finals Day Mon 1st May". Dorking RFC. 28 April 2017.
- ^ "Esher 2nd XV 17-19 Wimbledon". Esher RFC. 7 May 2018.
- ^ "Category Archives: Sports". IncentiveFM Group. 6 May 2019.
- ^ "THE HISTORY OF SUTTON & EPSOM RFC" (PDF). Sutton & Epsom RFC. Retrieved 7 July 2017.