Rugby Team Name Generator

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Generate rugby team names for club, school, sevens, touch, tag and touring sides, union or league: traditional club names like Thistlewick RFC and Wrensford Rovers, franchise-style names like Bay Coast Breakers and Iron Range Anvils, and puns such as Ruck and Roll, Maul of Fame and Up and Under Achievers.

About rugby team names

Rugby clubs name themselves in a tradition of their own. Most union clubs are the town followed by RFC or RUFC. Around that sit the endings the game has long used: Rovers, Wanderers, Exiles for players living away from home, Old Boys and "Old ...ians" for former pupils of a school, FP and Academicals in Scotland, and Vets. A few famous sides go by one word, with Harlequins and Barbarians as the pattern. The club names here follow those habits with invented towns, as in Thistlewick RFC, Wrensford Rovers, Old Oxmerians and The Troubadours.

The second style is the franchise name of the professional era, familiar from southern-hemisphere competitions and from rugby league: a region followed by a hard plural. This list pairs generic geography with animals, weather and industry, as in Bay Coast Breakers, Iron Range Anvils and Karoo Kudus.

The third is the pun for social, touch, tag and tournament teams. A ruck forms over a tackled player on the ground, a maul is the standing version, a garryowen or up and under is a high kick, a grubber is a kick along the ground, and the sin bin is ten minutes off for a yellow card. Hence Ruck and Roll, Maul of Fame, Up and Under Achievers, Grubber Duckies and Ten in the Bin.

How to choose rugby team names

  • For a club entry, put your own town, suburb, school or employer in place of the invented one. RFC, Rovers, Wanderers or Old Boys after a real local name reads as a proper club at once.
  • Match the pun to your unit or your style. A pack of forwards can be The Engine Room or Props Department, and a kicking side can be Chip and Chasers or Drop Goal Merchants.
  • Sevens, touch and tag tournaments put names on fixture boards and call them over a loudspeaker, so short ones such as Tap and Go, Tagamuffins or Lucky Sevens work best.
  • Vets and social sides traditionally mock themselves. Creaking Knees, Out of Retirement and Missed Tackle Club tell the opposition what kind of afternoon to expect.
  • Before you order shirts, search the name in your own union, league or tournament. With thousands of clubs in the world, a side near you may already play under something close.

Frequently asked questions

What do RFC and RUFC mean in a rugby team name?

RFC stands for rugby football club and RUFC for rugby union football club, and rugby league clubs often use RLFC. The letters go after the place name, as in Thistlewick RFC, Hartlow RUFC and Ironbeck RLFC in this list.

Are these the names of real rugby clubs?

They are not meant to be. The club-style names use invented towns such as Oxmere and Brackenholt, and the franchise-style names pair generic geography with common nouns. The list has not been compared with any union's or league's records, so search a name in your own competition before you adopt it.

What is a good name for a sevens, touch or tag rugby team?

Pick something short that plays on the format. Six Touch Wonders, Tag, You're It, Velcro Bandits, Magnificent Sevens and Seven Minute Halves all tell people which version of the game you play before you take the field.

Do these names work for women's and mixed teams?

Yes. The puns, the franchise-style names and most of the club names are not tied to men's rugby, and a few are written as women's sides, such as Vetchfield Women RFC and Willowscar Women's XV. The Old Boys names are the one group that belongs to a men's club tradition, and touch and tag names such as Rip and Run suit mixed teams well.

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A: 11 names

  • Abbotsmere Rugby Football Club
  • Accidental Offside
  • Aldercombe RFC
  • Alpine Ibex
  • Alumni Exiles
  • Always Look on the Blindside
  • Ankle Tap Dancers
  • Ashmoor RUFC
  • At Sixes and Sevens
  • Auchenshaw High School FP
  • Auchtermoss Wanderers

B: 28 names

  • Back Row Choir
  • Badlands Buzzards
  • Barefoot Backs
  • Barrowmere Vets
  • Bay City Battering Rams
  • Bay Coast Breakers
  • Beach Fives
  • Beginner's Ruck
  • Bench Impact
  • Best Fends Forever
  • Between a Ruck and a Hard Place
  • Bexmoor Weavers
  • Bin There, Done That
  • Bishopsholt Exiles
  • Black Sand Barracudas
  • Blindside Dates
  • Blindside of the Moon
  • Blindsided by Science
  • Blue Gum Kestrels
  • Blue Ridge Boars
  • Boarding House Bruisers
  • Bonus Point Hunters
  • Borderlands Badgers
  • Borrowed Boots
  • Brackenholt RFC
  • Breakwater Krakens
  • Brynhebog RFC
  • Bushveld Buffalo

C: 36 names

  • Callowby Engineers
  • Callowby RFC
  • Can't Touch This
  • Canal City Freight
  • Canonsford Exiles
  • Canyon Cougars
  • Capital City Cannons
  • Capital Condors
  • Cascade Elk
  • Castle Rock Bulwark
  • Casuals XV
  • Cattle Country Drovers
  • Cauliflower Cheese
  • Centers of Attention
  • Central Coyotes
  • Chip and Chasers
  • Cinderwick Colliers
  • Cinderwick RLFC
  • Cobbleford Vets
  • Coldwater Bridge Rugby Club
  • Coldwater Cornish
  • Conga Lineout
  • Conversion Rate
  • Convert Operations
  • Copper Coast Cobras
  • Coppermill Cutlers
  • Coppermill RLFC
  • Copperthwaite Casuals
  • Coral Coast Marlins
  • Cragmoor RFC
  • Crash Ball Course
  • Creaking Knees
  • Crooked Feed
  • Crossbar Challengers
  • Crouch Bind Set
  • Crown Coast Colossus

D: 15 names

  • Dalnashiel Rovers
  • Dead Ball Line Dancers
  • Deansmoor Nomads
  • Decoy Runners
  • Deep South Blizzard
  • Delta Gators
  • Desert Exiles
  • Dissertation Dodgers
  • Dockside Diesel
  • Don't Try This at Home
  • Drop Goal Merchants
  • Drover's Rest Old Boys
  • Drovers Cross Rugby Club
  • Dunmorran Academy FP
  • Dunnockby Collegians

E: 8 names

  • Easter Tour Survivors
  • Eastern Seaboard Stingrays
  • Eighth Wonders
  • Elderstoke RFC
  • Emberford RFC
  • Eskhaugh Academicals
  • Estuary Cormorants
  • Expat Exiles

F: 30 names

  • Faculty Forwards
  • Fallowmere Rovers
  • Far North Cyclones
  • Fend Benders
  • Fend for Yourselves
  • Fends Reunited
  • Fenland Harriers
  • Fernhollow RFC
  • Finance Front Row
  • First Fifteen Minutes of Fame
  • First Scrum, First Served
  • Flank You Very Much
  • Flanks for the Memories
  • Flat Pass Society
  • Flaxholt Vale
  • Foothills Foxes
  • Fort Hill Bastion
  • Forty Twenty Vision
  • Forward Pass Offenders
  • Foundry City Forge
  • Four Try Bonus
  • Fourth XV Philosophers
  • Foxhampton RUFC
  • Free for Maul
  • Freshers XV
  • Friarswick Nomads
  • Front Row Seats
  • Frontier Rangers
  • Fullback to the Future
  • Furnace Creek Blaze

G: 22 names

  • Gallowhaugh Park
  • Gannet Bay Dockers
  • Gannet Bay Rugby Club
  • Gateway Goliaths
  • Gentlemen of Quernholt
  • Glacier Bay Icebreakers
  • Glam Ruck
  • Glass Fly-Half Full
  • Glyneithin Rugby Club
  • Goal Line Dropouts
  • Gold Reef Prospectors
  • Goldfields Goannas
  • Goldilocks and the Three-Quarters
  • Granite Coast Gales
  • Great Divide Goshawks
  • Great Plains Longhorns
  • Grindlemere RUFC
  • Grubber Bands
  • Grubber Chickens
  • Grubber Duckies
  • Grubber Soul
  • Gumshield Gang

H: 17 names

  • Halls of Residence RFC
  • Hands in the Ruck
  • Harbor City Hammers
  • Harborside Honey Badgers
  • Hartlow Irish
  • Hartlow Medics
  • Hartlow RUFC
  • Hashtag Tries
  • Headland Hammerheads
  • Here Scrums Trouble
  • Heronsford RUFC
  • High Ball Gamblers
  • High Country Bison
  • High Plains Twisters
  • Hinterland Herons
  • Hospital Passers
  • Hot Desk Halfbacks

I: 6 names

  • Inverbrae RFC
  • Invitation XV
  • Iron Range Anvils
  • Ironbark Boilermakers
  • Ironbark Junction Rugby Club
  • Ironbeck RLFC

J: 2 names

  • Jackdaw Hill Rugby Club
  • Junction City Pistons

K: 9 names

  • Karoo Kudus
  • Keep in Touch
  • Kick and Clap
  • Kicked to Touch
  • Kingsmarrow Rugby Football Club
  • Kirkmorran Accies
  • Kit Bag Rummagers
  • Knock-On Wood
  • Know It Mauls

L: 24 names

  • Lake Shore Breakwater
  • Lakeland Lynx
  • Lanternwick Albion
  • Larkhampton RUFC
  • Last Tackle Option
  • Leaders of the Pack
  • Lecture Hall Locks
  • Leeward Albatross
  • Library Backs
  • Lifters and Jumpers
  • Lighthouse Leviathans
  • Limeburn RLFC
  • Lineout Dancing
  • Lineout in the Sand
  • Lineout of Duty
  • Lineout of Fire
  • Lock and Roll
  • Lock Ness Monsters
  • Loft Conversions
  • Loosehead Lounge
  • Losing Bonus Point
  • Lost Luggage XV
  • Lucky Sevens
  • Lychgate Park

M: 30 names

  • Mad Props
  • Magic Sponge Society
  • Magnificent Sevens
  • Magpie Flat Old Boys
  • Mangrove Crocs
  • Marches Ridgebacks
  • Marrowfield Academy Sevens
  • Marrowfield RFC
  • Maul Guns Blazing
  • Maul Hands on Deck
  • Maul in a Day's Work
  • Maul of Fame
  • Maul or Nothing
  • Maul Rats
  • Maul That Jazz
  • Maul Together Now
  • Maul's Well That Ends Well
  • Mesa Vultures
  • Metro Mastiffs
  • Midlands Mammoths
  • Millrace Haulers
  • Missed Conversions
  • Missed Tackle Club
  • Money Grubbers
  • Monksbeck Nomads
  • Monsoon Coast Mambas
  • Moorhollow Rovers
  • Moorland Stags
  • Mountebanks Invitation XV
  • Muddy Knees

N: 8 names

  • Nantybarcud Rugby Football Club
  • Netherwick RFC
  • Nettlewick Wanderers
  • Night Shift Number Eights
  • No Training Required
  • Northern Kodiaks
  • Northern Lights Wolverines
  • Not Straight

O: 24 names

  • Odd Socks XV
  • Old Abbotsmerians
  • Old Aldercombians
  • Old Brackenholtians
  • Old Callowbeians
  • Old Elderstokians
  • Old Emberfordians
  • Old Hartlovians
  • Old Oxmerians
  • Old Pennyfordians
  • Old Ravensholtians
  • Old Tarnsiders
  • Old Thornmerians
  • Old Town Vanguard
  • One Last Season
  • Openside Sesame
  • Otterbeck Trinity
  • Out of Office XV
  • Out of Retirement
  • Out of Touch
  • Outback Dingoes
  • Oxmere Agrics
  • Oxmere RFC
  • Oxmere Scottish

P: 23 names

  • Pack Animals
  • Pack Mentality
  • Pass Masters
  • Pass the Parcel
  • Peatmire RLFC
  • Penalty Count Champions
  • Pendlewick Rovers
  • Peninsula Pelicans
  • Pennyford Law Society XV
  • Pennyford RFC
  • Pentrehelyg RUFC
  • Permanently Offside
  • Physio's Favorites
  • Pick and Go
  • Pipersfield RUFC
  • Postgrad Pack
  • Pot Ruck
  • Prairie Wildfire
  • President's XV
  • Priorsmere Grammar Second XV
  • Prop Culture
  • Prop Idols
  • Props Department

Q: 4 names

  • Quarry Hill Juggernauts
  • Quarrywick ARLFC
  • Quick Tap Quintet
  • Quillhampton Wanderers

R: 25 names

  • Railtown Locomotives
  • Rainforest Pythons
  • Ravensholt RFC
  • Reading Week Rovers
  • Red Desert Rattlers
  • Red Gum Rosellas
  • Redshaw Moor Athletic
  • Redwood Grizzlies
  • Reef City Riptide
  • Rip and Run
  • River City Phalanx
  • Riverlands Ravens
  • Roll Ball Rollers
  • Rolling Mauls Gather No Moss
  • Ruck and Roll
  • Ruck Around the Clock
  • Ruck Lobsters
  • Ruck of Ages
  • Ruck of the Draw
  • Ruck Paper Scissors
  • Ruck Solid
  • Ruck Steady
  • Ruck the Boat
  • Rucking Horses
  • Ruckleberry Finn

S: 56 names

  • Salt Flats Scorpions
  • Saltbeck RFC
  • Saltbeck Trawlermen
  • Saltbush Taipans
  • Sand Steppers
  • Sandstone City Ironsides
  • Savanna Wildebeest
  • School of Hard Knock-Ons
  • Scratch XV
  • Scrum and Get It
  • Scrum Dine With Me
  • Scrum Fly With Me
  • Scrum Like It Hot
  • Scrum One, Scrum All
  • Scrum What May
  • Scrumbody to Love
  • Scrumthing Special
  • Secret Sevens
  • Sedgeholt ARLFC
  • Set of Six
  • Seven Aside Salad
  • Seven Deadly Sidesteps
  • Seven League Boots
  • Seven Minute Halves
  • Seven Wonders of the Wing
  • Sevens and Counting
  • Shearers Creek Old Boys
  • Short Lineout Specialists

S, continued

  • Sierra Bighorns
  • Silver Coast Swordfish
  • Sin Bin Season Ticket
  • Six Again
  • Six Touch Wonders
  • Sixth Form Sevens
  • Slatewick Quarrymen
  • Slatewick RLFC
  • Snow White and the Seven Forwards
  • Social Thirds
  • Sold a Dummy
  • Sorrelby Colts
  • Southern Cross Sentinels
  • Southern Lakes Squalls
  • Southern Ocean Orcas
  • St Aldric's College First XV
  • St Oswin's Hall Wanderers
  • St Oswin's School Colts
  • Staff Common Room XV
  • Steel Valley Rivets
  • Still Got It XV
  • Storm Coast Surge
  • Strathcorrie Rugby Football Club
  • Student Union Union
  • Sugar Coast Harvesters
  • Summit City Behemoths
  • Sunday Social XV
  • Swallowmere Wanderers

T: 89 names

  • Tablelands Thunder
  • Tag Along
  • Tag Snatchers
  • Tag, You're It
  • Tagamuffins
  • Tagged and Released
  • Tagliatelle
  • Tanglewood Foresters
  • Tanglewood Rovers
  • Tap and Go
  • Tap Dancers
  • Tape and Glory
  • Tarnside RUFC
  • Ten in the Bin
  • The Argonauts
  • The Better Halves
  • The Boulevardiers
  • The Charlatans
  • The Converted
  • The Corsairs
  • The Engine Room
  • The Extra Bs
  • The Freebooters
  • The Full Eighty
  • The Gadabouts
  • The Gallivanters
  • The Has-Bins
  • The Jongleurs
  • The Knock-On Effect

T, continued

  • The Malcontents
  • The Minstrels
  • The Mountebanks
  • The Mummers
  • The Musketeers
  • The Myrmidons
  • The Paladins
  • The Pantaloons
  • The Pierrots
  • The Praetorians
  • The Privateers
  • The Raconteurs
  • The Rapscallions
  • The Reprobates
  • The Ruffians
  • The Scallywags
  • The Scaramouches
  • The Swashbucklers
  • The Tagnificent Seven
  • The Thespians
  • The Troubadours
  • The Untouchables
  • The Vaudevillians
  • The Wayfarers
  • Thistlewick RFC
  • Thornmere RUFC
  • Thornmere Teaching Hospital RFC
  • Thornmere Welsh
  • Thornveld Warthogs
  • Three Harbors Threshers

T, continued

  • Thursday Trainers
  • Tidewater Terns
  • Tight Five Alive
  • Timberline Moose
  • Top End Barramundi
  • Touch and Go
  • Touchline Tourists
  • Touchy Subjects
  • Tour Bus Choir
  • Tries on the Prize
  • Tries Wide Open
  • Triple Captain Trouble
  • Tropic Typhoons
  • Troubadours Touring Side
  • Truck and Trailer
  • Try Angles
  • Try Fidelity
  • Try Five
  • Try of the Storm
  • Try of the Tiger
  • Try School Musical
  • Try Witness
  • Tryannosaurus Rex
  • Tryline Dancers
  • Tryumphant
  • Tundra Caribou
  • Turned Up for Training
  • Twenty Four Sevens
  • Twin Rivers Tempest
  • Two Hand Touch

U: 7 names

  • Under the Posts
  • Underwick Hornets
  • Up and Under Achievers
  • Up and Under Construction
  • Up and Under Dogs
  • Up and Under Pressure
  • Use It or Lose It

V: 6 names

  • Velcro Bandits
  • Vet School Vets
  • Vetchfield Women RFC
  • Vicarsfield Athletic
  • Vintage XV
  • Volcano Coast Magma

W: 19 names

  • Warehouse Wingers
  • Western Plains Stampede
  • Westmarch University RFC
  • Wethermoor Wanderers
  • What Goes on Tour
  • Wheat Country Threshers
  • White Cliffs Gannets
  • Willowscar Women's XV
  • Windlesby Millers
  • Windlesby RLFC
  • Windward Petrels
  • Wing and a Prayer
  • Wolfscar RUFC
  • Wooden Spoon Contenders
  • Wool Country Shearers
  • Worth a Try
  • Wrap Around Wonders
  • Wrecking Maul
  • Wrensford Rovers

Y: 1 name

  • Yewholt Wanderers