Edinburgh Rugby

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Edinburgh Rugby (formerly Edinburgh Reivers and Edinburgh Gunners) is one of the two professional rugby union teams from Scotland. The club competes in the United Rugby Championship, along with the Glasgow Warriors, its oldest rival. Edinburgh plays the majority of its home games at Edinburgh Rugby Stadium. Within the Championship, Edinburgh competes for the URC Scottish Italian shield with Glasgow, Benetton and Zebre Parma, which it has won once, and the 1872 Cup with Glasgow alone, which it has won seven times, the last in 2022. Its best finish in the Championship proper was runner-up in the 2008-09 season. Outside the Championship, Edinburgh also competes in EPCR competitions; the European Rugby Champions Cup and the EPCR Challenge Cup. The original Edinburgh District team played the first ever inter-district match against Glasgow District in 1872, winning the match 3–0. The amateur district team was reconsituted with professionalism, as Edinburgh Rugby, in 1996 to compete in the Heineken...

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