Oxford Harlequins RFC

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Oxford Harlequins (Oxford Quins) Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based in Oxford, England. The men's 1st XV currently play in National League 2 East, a level 4 league, following their promotion from Regional 1 Midlands at the end of the 2023–24 season.

In the 2021–22 season the men's 1st XV gained promotion to a new league in the England Rugby Club Championship, Regional 1 South Central, a new nomenclature for National 3 / level five of the English rugby union system. At the end of the 2023-4 season Oxford Quins gained promotion to the National Leagues during a successful campaign in Regional 1 Midlands which resulted in Quins winning the league in only their second season at Level 5. Oxford Quins are the first Oxford club to be promoted to the National Leagues.

As of Sept 2024, the women's 1st XV compete in National Challenge 1 Midlands, level 4 of the England Rugby Women's Club Championship.^[1] The men's 2nd XV compete in Counties 1 Tribute Berks/Bucks & Oxon North,^[2] level 7 of the RFU rugby pyramid. The men's 3rd XV compete in Counties 3 Tribute Berks Bucks & Oxon North, level 9 of the RFU Rugby pyramid.^[3] The women's 2nd XV compete in National Challenge 2, level 5 of the England Rugby women's club championship.^[4]

Stu Wells was appointed Director of Rugby in July 2019.^[5]

Pete Davies was appointed as Men's Head Coach in August 2019.^[6] Davies began his career at Henley Hawks RFC fresh out of university after moving to England from his native nation of Wales. Combined with a brief stint with Newbury in the Championship, Davies spent a total of 10 years playing for the Hawks, making an immediate transition from player to attack/assistant coach in 2010. Having spent four years as Head Coach at Henley (winning 2 promotions to National League 1 in 8 years), Davies played a significant hand in the evolution of a number of international stars and a myriad of Premiership regulars including Piers O'Conor (Bristol Bears), Alec Hepburn (Exeter Chiefs), Will Rowlands (Wasps RFC & Dragons RFC), Theo Brophy-Clews (London Irish), Jack Willis (rugby union) (Wasps RFC & England national rugby union team) and Jonah Holmes (London Welsh RFC, Wasps RFC & Wales national rugby union team) .^[7]

The Women's Head Coach for the 2022–23 season is Pat Metcalfe-Jones (more info on Metcalfe-Jones below).^[8] At the start of the 2023-24 season Metcalfe-Jones left to work at Ealing Trailfinders and Fin Kelly was appointed Head Coach of the Brookes Quins Partnership Women's section covering Oxford Quins and Oxford Brookes rugby.