Established: 1898
Home Ground: Madejski Stadium
Premierships: 0
Minor Premierships: 0
ISC Partnership: 2011
The London Irish are a rugby union team based in Sunbury, Surrey, UK and compete in the Aviva Premiership. They were originally established to give the young Irish men living in London an opportunity to play rugby, following the formation of similar clubs in London including the London Welsh and the London Scottish.
It now employs players from a wide range of backgrounds and won its first major trophy in 2002, claiming the Powergen Cup (the competition that would later become the Anglo-Welsh Cup) and in the 2007/08 a resurgent team came close to a place in the Heineken Cup Final losing out to Toulouse in a tight encounter at Twickenham.
