Read about Gibraltar Rugby Domestic Competitions
Gibraltar Rugby Domestic Competitions includes; Senior Men’s Umee GRC, Men’s National Challenge, Women’s National Challenge, Junior TNB League and Community Competitions.
Gibraltar Rugby Senior Mens
Men’s Umee Gibraltar Rugby Championship (GRC)
Starting as the Super IV’s, the domestic league started in 2010 comprising the four Constituent Club Members of the GRFU Ibex Buccaneers, Rock Scorpions, Europa Stormers and Straits Sharks. In recent years this has been expanded to include additional teams such as Phoenicians Rugby, Marauders Rugby and more recently Hercules and Bavaria Rugby.
Renamed the Umee Gibraltar Rugby Championship for commercial reasons, this year has seen Bavaria, Ibex Buccaneers and Ceuta RC competing for the title.
Gibraltar Rugby Men’s National Challenge
An entry level local league, this is designed to gradually prepare Senior players for the stronger GRC and, hopefully, progression to the National Squad. This will commence in February 2025 and will feature the four founder clubs of Buccaneers, Scorpions, Stormers and Sharks.
Gibraltar Rugby Women’s National Challenge
With the growing numbers in this section, a local league started on 18th January, with the first match between Orcas and Falcons, with Orcas running out as narrow 26-24 winners. This inaugural league will see another 3 matches this season.
Gibraltar Rugby Junior TNB League
The Trusted Novus Bank Youth Rugby Festival creates a pathway for the future of Gibraltar Rugby. Designed as a Tag competition, and featuring the Buccaneers, Scorpions, Stormers, and Sharks, this is played over 7 rounds, with 3 remaining this year. This is played across school years 2 & 3, 4 & 5 and 6 & 7.
Gibraltar Rugby U18’s play a contact league between 2 teams.
Gibraltar Rugby Community Competition
GRFU organises and administers competitions for the wider community as introductions to Rugby. See our Community Rugby page here.
Play Amateur Rugby in Gibraltar
GRFU is open to all ages in Gibraltar. If you are considering moving to Gibraltar you could study or work in Gibraltar. There are jobs in hospitality work, office jobs, corporate companies or in construction.