51°27′29″N 0°02′46″E / 51.458°N 0.046°E Blackheath Football Club is a rugby union club based in Well Hall, Eltham, in south-east London.
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| Full name | Blackheath Football Club | |
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| Union | Kent RFU, Middlesex RFU | |
| Nickname(s) | Club | |
| Founded | 1858 | |
| Location | Well Hall, Eltham, Greenwich, London, England | |
| Ground(s) | Well Hall (Capacity: 1,650 (550 seats)) | |
| President | Rory O'Sullivan | |
| Captain(s) | Ed Taylor | |
| League(s) | National League 1 | |
| 2023–24 | 8th | |
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| Official website | ||
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The club was founded in Blackheath in 1858 and is the oldest open rugby club in continuous existence in the world. The Blackheath club also assisted in organising the world's first rugby international (between England and Scotland in Edinburgh on 27 March 1871) and hosted the first international between England and Wales ten years later – the players meeting and getting changed at the Princess of Wales public house. Blackheath, along with Civil Service F.C., is one of the two clubs that can claim to be a founder member of both The Football Association and the Rugby Football Union.
The club currently plays in National League 1, the third tier of the English rugby union system, with matches played at Well Hall after a move from Rectory Field in Blackheath at the end of the 2015–16 season.