Kandy Sports Club (rugby)

Kandy S.C
Full nameKandy Athletic, Boating, Cricket, Football and Dancing Club (formally)
UnionSri Lanka Rugby Football Union
Founded1874; 150 years ago (1874)
LocationKandy, Sri Lanka
Ground(s)Bogambara Stadium (until 1939)
Nittawela Rugby Stadium (Capacity: 30,000, 25,000)
ChairmanLasantha Wijesuriya
PresidentDr. Sarath Kapuwatte
Coach(es)Fazil Marija
Captain(s)Nigel Rathwatte
League(s)Dialog Rugby League
Clifford Cup
2022 Dialog Rugby League season1
Team kit
Official website
www.kandysc.lankapanel.net
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Kandy Sports Club (better known as Kandy SC) is a Division 'A' rugby union team, based in Kandy, Sri Lanka, competing in the Dialog Rugby League. The club has been the most successful Sri Lankan club in the Sri Lanka Rugby Championship, winning 18 league titles in the last twenty years, which is the most wins by any club since the expanded competition commenced in 1950. The club has also won twenty Clifford Cups and in the period between 1995 and 2012 the club did not lose a Clifford Cup title, although in 1998 there was no tournament and in 2006 the club withdrew from the tournament.[1] Kandy SC had won the league title for a record nine consecutive years between 2000 and 2009.[2]

  1. ^ "Sport". Archived from the original on 2013-12-17. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
  2. ^ "Sports.lk". www.sports.lk. Retrieved 2021-09-01.