Harlequin F.C.

Harlequins
Full nameHarlequins Rugby Football Club
UnionMiddlesex RFU
Nickname(s)Quins, The Entertainers, The Quarters
Founded1866; 159 years ago (1866)
(as "Hampstead Football Club")[1]
LocationTwickenham, London, England
RegionLondon Borough of Richmond
Ground(s)Twickenham Stoop[a] (Capacity: 14,800)
ChairmanDavid Morgan
CEOLaurie Dalrymple
Director of RugbyBilly Millard
Coach(es)Danny Wilson
Captain(s)Alex Dombrandt
Most appearancesDanny Care (386)
Top scorerNick Evans (2249)
Most triesDan Lambert (253)[4]
League(s)Premiership Rugby
2023–246th
1st kit
2nd kit
Official website
www.quins.co.uk

Harlequins (officially Harlequin Football Club) are a professional rugby union club that plays in Premiership Rugby, the top level of English rugby union. Their home ground is the Twickenham Stoop, located in Twickenham, south-west London.

The club, which was founded in 1866 as "Hampstead Football Club", split the following year with some of the membership forming Wasps RFC. Three years later Hampstead renamed itself Harlequins and became one of the founding members of the Rugby Football Union in 1871. For more than a hundred years, Harlequins had been one of the top UK teams during the amateur era and this continued with the introduction of professionalism in 1995. The club has been champions of England twice, winning the title in 2012 and most recently in 2021. They won the European Challenge Cup in 2001, 2004 and 2011, the joint most wins of any team in the competition,[5] and the domestic cup in 1988, 1991 and 2013. It remains the only founding club member of the RFU to still be in the top flight of English rugby.[6]

Harlequins has the largest social media following of any club in the Premiership, the 2nd largest of any club in Europe, after Stade Toulousain, and is comfortably within the Top 10 of any club in the world.[7]

The current club captain is Alex Dombrandt, with Billy Millard Director of Rugby for the 2024–25 season.[8]

  1. ^ "Heritage". Harlequins Official Website. Archived from the original on 21 August 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Big Game 16". Harlequins. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
  3. ^ "Big Summer Kick Off is back and bigger than ever". Harlequins. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
  4. ^ "Club Statistics". Harlequins. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  5. ^ Paul Rees (21 May 2011). "Harlequins 19-18 Stade Français - Amlin Challenge Cup final report". The Guardian.
  6. ^ "The History of Rugby Union". Black&Blue. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  7. ^ Henson, Mike. "Eagles, ice & pyro - inside rugby's biggest show". BBC Sport. Retrieved 27 December 2024.
  8. ^ "Alex Dombrandt Named Men's Club Captain". Harlequins. Retrieved 21 September 2024.


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