Our Club
The Honour Boards
Tiger Tales
About Us
Easts Rugby Union Inc. is one of Australia’s largest rugby clubs. Based in the central Brisbane suburb of Norman Park, Easts caters for children and adults of all ages by providing opportunities for all to play rugby. Our motto is Tiger for Life and our goal is to provide an environment based on enjoyment and learning that engages our members for years to come!
Easts is based on the fields at C.P Bottomley Park and the fields are available to our community to enjoy all year round. Easts currently host schools, community and other sporting groups throughout the year and we are also available for function hire of our clubhouse facilities.
We look forward to welcoming you and your family to Easts and hope to see you soon!
A History of Success
The Premiership Success
Since then the Tigers have won the Hospital Cup on five occasions, in 1997, 1999, 2008, 2013 and 2020. In both 1984 and 1999 Easts won the Welsby Cup and Horsley Cup, while they have also claimed the Doughty Shield on six occasions (1987, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009 and 2020).
Following their 2008 Premiership success, Easts went on to become Australian Club Champions by defeating Sydney University. They replicated this feat in 2021 with a victory over Gordon Rugby Club to claim the club’s second Australian Club Championship Title.
Without a doubt 2020 was the most successful year in the nearly 75 year history of the club.
Securing 6 Premierships in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, Premier Women and Colts 4, the club also won the Doughty Shield for a 6th time.
In their history 13 players have received Premier Rugby player of the year honours, our most recent being Ben Mowen in 2020.
A total of 29 players that have played for the Tigers have also gone on to wear the Green and Gold jersey for either the Wallabies, Australian 7s, Australian U20s, Australian U18s or the Wallaroos teams.
A new era in Women’s Rugby
Arguably our most successful team is our Premier Women’s Rugby side accumulating 8 premiership wins in recent years.
With an evolving program Easts is proud to have been the training ground for many of Australia’s loved international players.
We welcome enquiries to play throughout the year so it’s never too late to become a Women’s Rugby Player!
Do you have a photo you’d like to share? We would love to see it. Please tag us at #TIGERFORLIFE
The Cups & Trophies
Our History
Seventy-four years of Rugby excellence by Canberra Royals was founded not in stone but on cloth. A row over new jerseys worth less than two dollars – 18 shillings in 1949 – resulted in Jack Waters, the club’s first president, along with several enthusiastic youngsters such as Noel Hansen, Keith Hawke and Bob Brown, splitting away from Norths to form the club now known as Canberra Royals Rugby Union Football Club.
For seventy years since, Canberra Royals has been showing excellence on and off the field in ACT club rugby. The proud history of Canberra Royals follows and is built on an impressive first season in 1949, with the Royals entering two teams in the reserve grade competition, with the reserve A team crowned undefeated premiers.
Women's Rugby
In 1992, Royals was the first ACT rugby club to field a women’s team and won the first version of the women’s national championship that year. Royals continued to field a team in the Sydney women’s competition and were the driving force behind establishing the first ACT women’s competition in 1996.
Royals women’s seniors have won most of ACT women’s premierships and provided more ACT and Wallaroo (national women’s team) representatives than any other Australian club.
The History Books
2023 Awards
2022 Awards
Watch Canberra Royals Here
The John I Dent Cup is broadcast by Bar TV. You can watch Canberra Royals 1st Grade here.
