Rugby Victoria

Not to be confused with Victorian Rugby League.

Rugby Victoria
SportRugby union
Founded1888
(Melbourne R.U.)
refounded VRU
1893, 1909, 1926,
renamed Rugby
Victoria in 2017
 (1888
(Melbourne R.U.)
refounded VRU
1893, 1909, 1926,
renamed Rugby
Victoria in 2017
)
RA affiliation1949
(founding member)
Websitewww.rugbyvic.com.au

Rugby Victoria, formerly the Victorian Rugby Union, is a member and founding union of Rugby Australia. Within the state of Victoria, it is the governing body for the sport of rugby union.

Rugby Victoria manages competitions for males and females in several age groups and divisions, and involving clubs from metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria.

Rugby union was founded in Melbourne in 1888. However competition lapsed and was twice re-established during the first twenty years, and again after the first World War when the present governing body was founded in 1926, then known as the Victorian Rugby Union, or VRU.[1]

In December 2017, the VRU was re-branded as Rugby Victoria.[2]

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