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| Full name | Jersey Reds, formerly Jersey Rugby Football Club | |
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| Union | Hampshire RFU | |
| Nickname(s) | The Reds | |
| Founded | 1879 | |
| Disbanded | 28 September 2023 | |
| Location | Saint Peter, Jersey, Channel Islands | |
| Ground(s) | Stade Santander International (capacity: 4,000 (200 seated) | |
| Chairman | Mark Morgan (since 2016) | |
| Director of Rugby | Harvey Biljon (Since 2014) | |
| Captain(s) | Lewis Wynne | |
| League(s) | RFU Championship | |
| 2022–23 | 1st | |
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| Official website | ||
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Jersey Reds was a rugby union club based in Jersey, Channel Islands. On 28th September 2023, the club ceased trading and shortly thereafter went into liquidation following the withdrawal of financial support from a key investor.[1]
Until season 2022/23, the professional arm of Jersey Reds was part of Jersey RFC, a members' club established in 1879 which also had an amateur men's side, Jersey Reds Athletic, who play in the National Leagues (tier 7); Jersey Reds Women, who play in the Women's National Championship South 2 league; and a thriving Mini section with over 500 boys and girls participating.
For the first season of the national leagues in England in 1987–88, Jersey were in London Three South-West (level 7), and did not play any higher until promotion in 2005.
Two professional players were signed in 2006 and gradually the club's 1st XV shifted towards full-time professionalism, which was introduced in 2013. By this time Jersey had been promoted four more times to reach, by 2012, the second level of the English pyramid, playing in the Greene King IPA Championship. During this period Jersey contested the knock-out competition for the four winners of the regional leagues at level 5 in 2009–10, defeating Taunton in the semi-final and then Ampthill in the final at Twickenham.
The team was known as Jersey Rugby Football Club until the start of the 2016–17 season, when they changed their name to the Jersey Reds. To reflect this, the team also adopted an all-red kit – jersey, shorts and socks.[2]
Jersey Reds were the champions of the 2022–23 RFU Championship. Despite the 2022-23 season not having any promotion / relegation of teams across the leagues as Jersey Reds would have been ineligible due to insufficient stadium capacity.
- ^ Anderson, Steven (6 October 2023). "Reds go into liquidation". Jersey Evening Post. pp. 56, 54.
- ^ "JRFC announces launch of the Jersey Reds" (Press release). Jersey Reds. 27 May 2016. Archived from the original on 8 August 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2016.