Scarborough Rugby Union Football Club is an English rugby union club that is based in Scalby near Scarborough, North Yorkshire. The clubhouse is the UK's largest amateur clubhouse and is set within a 32-acre site with 5 senior pitches, a training pitch and 6 minis pitches. The club operates four senior men's teams, a women's team and pre-micro/micro/mini/youth rugby (ages 3–17). The men's 1st XV currently plays in North 1 East – a league at level 6 of the English rugby union system – having been promoted into the division from Yorkshire 1 via a playoff at the end of the 2017–18 season. History Early years Scarborough RUFC was founded in 1926 following a meeting held at the Pavilion Hotel, and played its first ever game away to Whitby later that year. As the new club did not have its own ground, home fixtures during the 1926–27 season were played at Seamer Road (Athletic Ground), with rent and a percentage of the gate money paid to the owners, Scarborough Football Club. Rugby Union had not been expected to take off in Scarborough, but by the fourth game the club enjoyed an attendance of over 1,000. In 1927, Scarborough left Seamer Road for new premises at The Old Showground in Newby, which would be its home for the next 82 years. In 1933 Scarborough reached the final of the Yorkshire Shield for the very first time, losing 6–13 to Sandal at Bridlington. Later in the decade, Dr. I Stevenson (who had been medical man for the New Zealand All Blacks) became the club's honorary coach, helping it to become one of the strongest clubs in Yorkshire and also producing the club's first England international, Robert Michael Marshal, who would gain six caps for his country prior to World War II (he died during the conflict). During this time the club also installed floodlights enabling evening training sessions. A 300-seater grandstand was erected at the Old Showground, enabling the ground to host Yorkshire county games, and in 1953 the club purchased the former chapel at St Margaret's School for £400 to use as its club-house. League rugby When the leagues were introduced during the 1987–88 season, Scarborough found itself in Yorkshire 1 – a league at the 7th level of the English rugby union system. Despite winning the first fixture 10–6 against Driffield, the rest of the season did not go to