University College Cork

Full name	University College Cork Rugby Football Club
Union	IRFU
Founded	1872; 152 years ago (1872)
Region	Cork
Ground(s)	The Mardyke (Capacity: 5,000)
Chairman	Rory Bevan
President	Vivian E Nathan
Coach(es)	Neil Lucey
Captain(s)	Rob Hedderman
League(s)	All-Ireland D1B
2022–23	8th.[1]
Official website
www.ucc.ie/en/sport/clubs/rugby/

University College Cork Rugby Football Club is a Irisih rugby union club which currently plays in Division 1B of the All-Ireland League. Founded in 1872, they originally played as Queen’s College Cork, as UCC was then known. Recent successes include winning the All Ireland U-20 Championship in 2002. In the same year, they also reached the AIB League playoffs for the first time, narrowly missing out on promotion to Division 1. Leading players in that team included Denis Leamy, Stephen Keogh and Frank Murphy, all of whom went on to play for Munster.^[2]

Honours

• All-Ireland Cup
  • 1935-36: 1
• Munster Senior League
  • 1913, 1914, 1931, 1933. 1934, 1936, 1942 1943, 1945, 1950, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1974, 1978, 1981, 1985: 17
• Munster Senior Cup
  • 1887, 1888, 1897, 1900, 1901, 1912, 1913, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1963, 1976, 1981: 18
• Munster Junior Cup
  • 1921, 1933, 1950, 1953, 1963, 1967, 1969, 1975, 1977, 1979: 10

Notable former players

Ireland

In 1879 Ashley Cummins became the first UCC player to represent Ireland. Since then at least 55 UCC players have played for the full national team. 34 of these played for Ireland while still playing for UCC. Donal Lenihan was the last UCC player to be capped by Ireland while still attached to the club.

British & Irish Lions

As well as representing Ireland, at least nine UCC players also went on to represent the British & Irish Lions. At least two of these players, Mick Lane and Tom Kiernan, were still UCC players when they toured with the Lions.^[3]