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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.
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.
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.
Rugby has been played in Jersey since 1879 with breaks for war and the Nazi occupation, but the modern era started when the club acquired the land for a permanent home in Saint Peter, near Jersey Airport, in 1961. The original wooden clubhouse was built in 1964 and its approximate location was in the middle of what is now the ‘Jersey Bowl’ carpark.
From the early 1970s, when tourism in the island was at its peak, Jersey attracted many of rugby's top clubs who could combine a break from their regular fixtures with a game against JRFC.
Jersey Reds
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.
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.
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.
Rugby has been played in Jersey since 1879 with breaks for war and the Nazi occupation, but the modern era started when the club acquired the land for a permanent home in Saint Peter, near Jersey Airport, in 1961. The original wooden clubhouse was built in 1964 and its approximate location was in the middle of what is now the ‘Jersey Bowl’ carpark.
From the early 1970s, when tourism in the island was at its peak, Jersey attracted many of rugby's top clubs who could combine a break from their regular fixtures with a game against JRFC.