Plymouth Albion Rugby Football Club are a Rugby Union club who play in Plymouth, Devon. The club was founded around 1915 from Plymouth RFC and Devonport Albion RFC.
Plymouth RFC
Formed 1875, during its existence it played at Home Park (the current home of Plymouth Argyle).
Devonport Albion RFC
Albion was formed in 1876 from apprentices at Devonport Dockyard and originally played at Devonport Park. After moving to Bladderly in 1887 they then moved to Home Park in 1893. In 1895 Albion moved to the Rectory (the current home of Devonport Services RFC ).
Current Club
The current club continued at the Rectory until an enforced move in 1957 to Beacon Park. In 2003, they moved from the then dilapidated Beacon Park ground to the considerably more modern Brickfields ground in Devonport, previously best known as an athletics stadium.
Albion were a major force in English Rugby in the 1920s having five internationals on their books at one time.
Around this time they attracted a crowd of 18,000 to a midweek game against Oxford University which established a record crowd for a club match in England which was not exceeded until the 1980s.
Albion's traditional strip and club colours are white, cherry and green.
They were promoted to National League Division One in 2002, and finished third in the 2003/04 season. Observers say it was Plymouth's best position nationally since the 1920s.
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