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| Full name | Watsonian Football Club | |
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| Union | SRU | |
| Founded | 1875 | |
| Location | Edinburgh, Scotland | |
| Ground(s) | New Myreside (Capacity: 5,500[1]) | |
| President | Richard Kelly | |
| Coach(es) | Stevie Scott (Head Coach, Super Series) Jason Riley (Head Coach, Men’s Club XV) Bruce Millar (Head Coach, Women’s 1XV) | |
| Captain(s) | Tristan Cumming | |
| Most caps | Mark Watters (348) | |
| League(s) | Super 6 | |
| 2021–22 | Super 6, 3rd of 6 (3rd in Playoff) | |
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Watsonian Football Club is a rugby union club based in Edinburgh and part of the Scottish Rugby Union. The club is connected with George Watson's College as a club for former pupils, and changed its policy in the 1980s to be a fully open club, welcoming players of all abilities regardless of whether they attended the school or not. It is one of a small number of rugby union clubs entitled to call itself a 'football club', rather than a 'rugby football club'. Watsonians run a number of sides; the top male side plays in the FOSROC Super Series tournament, the Women's side plays in the Tennents Scottish Women's Premiership Scottish Rugby's Women's League
- ^ Lewis, Jane (16 January 2017). "Edinburgh: Myreside 'can be better than Glasgow's Scotstoun' - Andy Irvine". BBC Sport. Retrieved 22 January 2017.