Doncaster Phoenix Rugby

Doncaster Phoenix Rugby stands as an independent club allied to Doncaster Knights. The club is very progressive with a clear vision of playing the highest standard of rugby attainable by a club adopting professional standards. Having achieved back-to-back promotions from Yorkshire Division One and North One East our First XV now play National League rugby presently in the fifth tier of the RFU league structure. The club regularly aims to run two senior teams (aspirations for three), an occasional Veterans team, the Dragons and our ladies’ team the Demons – but it is also our intention to encourage more player participation leading to an increase in teams playing, hopefully on a regular basis. We cater for players who for whatever reason do not wish or are not ready to pursue a full-time career in professional rugby; a case in point being any player who wishes to play rugby at a good level whilst concurrently studying or progressing a career outside of the game. However also attracting young players from the local community, particularly former Doncaster Colts and those attending Doncaster Academy, is fundamental to our future development. This approach also offers a distinctly different opportunity to young players to the one offered by professional clubs. Whilst being very professional in our training, coaching and administrative methodology we retain a traditional club ethos by promoting a strong, sustainable social community within and thus affording players and their families the opportunity of forming lifelong friendships. Training sessions for Phoenix with our excellent coaching team take place every Tuesday and Thursday evening during the season at Castle Park, whilst the Demons train on Wednesday evenings and anyone looking to play a good standard of rugby is welcome to join us.