Leicester Rugby Club

The Leicester Rugby Club is an English rugby Union Club who currently plays at the Aviva Premiership and has been the standing champions since last year. They have managed to become one of the most successful clubs in the history of English rugby and all credit goes to the coordination and organization along with the excellent team work of the players. Their excellent performance can be seen from the statistics where the club has never ended a league below the 6^th position. Moreover they are known to be the only team along with Gloucester, Bath and Wasps who have never been relegated from the top division. Their bag of victories including winning the Heineken Cup twice and the league five times under the captaincy of Martin Johnson. They are one of the richest clubs with a turnover of 18.5 million dollars. They play all their home games at Welford Road which has a capacity of over 30000. The club is currently under the chairmanship of Peter Tom and coached and captained by Richard Cockerill and Geordan Murphy respectively.

The jerseys of the Leicester Rugby Club are red and green stripes and they wear a blue jersey for all their away matches. They are nicknamed the Tigers, the origin of which is unknown. Their home ground at Welford Road came into existence only in the year 1892. Their matches played at the home ground were spectacular and could be seen through the continuous victories at the Midland Cup. The continuous win from the year 1898 to 1905 made them drop out from the cup itself so as to give a chance to other clubs as well to gain a win at the cup. The winning streak of the Leicester Rugby Club started again at the end of the 20^th century. They won the Heineken Cup in 1995 followed by the Pilkington Cup in 1997. In the 1996 Cup they lost to the Bath at the final game due to a miss in the penalty shot. However they never gave up hope and continued to excel under the management of Dean Richards. The captain of the Leicester Rugby Club, Martin Johnson managed to coordinate the team effort so as to produce skilled and talented players. They managed to seal their victory back to back at the Heineken Cup in 2001 and 2002 and went on to becoming the only English team to have successfully won the Cup twice in a row.

The home games of Leicester Rugby Club were even more entertaining.  They showed an array of skill and managed to go undefeated for a stretch of 57 matches during the span of 1997 to 2002. They are currently placed at the 10^th position in the English premier League table. Their Premiership record has been outstanding. They managed to finish first in 2004-2005, second in the next two consecutive years and again first in 2008-2009 and 2009-2010. Leicester Rugby Club is sure to perform well in this season as well a keep up their record.