London Irish

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London Irish RFC is a professional rugby union club that most recently competed in the Premiership, the top division of rugby union in England. The club also participated in the European Champions Cup, and the European Challenge Cup. While competing in the RFU Championship, the second tier of English rugby, during the 2016–17 and 2018–19 seasons, London Irish also took part in the British and Irish Cup and the RFU Championship Cup. For twenty years, the club played its home games at the Madejski Stadium in Reading, Berkshire, before relocating to the Brentford Community Stadium in Brentford, West London, for the 2020–21 season. The club was founded in 1898 following the creation of London Scottish and London Welsh for the same reason, allowing Irishmen the chance to play rugby with fellow countrymen in the English capital.They won their only major trophy, the Powergen Cup, in 2002 and reached the 2009 Premiership final, narrowly losing 10–9 to Leicester Tigers. In the 2007–08 season, the...

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