100 Rugby Team Names

Here are 80+ rugby team names for clubs, sevens squads, touch rugby teams and social sides, split between the traditional club register and the jokes that suit a Sunday social XV.

Rugby naming is more conservative than most sports. Established clubs use a place name plus a simple noun and have done for over a century, so a joke name marks you instantly as a social side rather than a club. That is fine if it is true, and a problem if it is not, which is why the lists below separate the two clearly.

Traditional club names

The register real clubs use. Swap in your own town or district.

Or generate your own

Pre-set for rugby. Add a keyword like your city or mascot to make it yours.

What is the team for?Vibe

Keyword (optional — a city, mascot or inside joke)Alliteration

Tough and physical names

Rugby is a contact sport and the naming reflects it.

Funny social side names

Sunday social rugby, where the third half is the actual event.

Sevens and touch names

Faster formats with smaller squads and a lighter tone.

Animal and mythic club names

The other traditional formula, and easy to put on a badge.

Short rugby names

Shirt backs and fixture lists both cut off quickly.

How to pick from this list

Club names are conservative for a reason

Rugby clubs are often decades old and their names sit in league tables, on shirts and above a bar. A place name plus a simple noun signals a real club, while a pun signals a social side however good the team is.

Social sides can go all in

If you play Sunday social rugby, the joke name is the correct answer and the whole league expects it. Ruck Off and The Third Half read as confident rather than unserious in that setting.

Check what a referee will say

Rugby names get read by match officials and announced at club dinners. Innuendo that works in a changing room often will not be read aloud, so keep a clean version for the fixture list.

What this looks like in practice

A Sunday social side calls itself The Third Half, after the drinks that follow every match. Every club in the division understands it immediately, it never needs updating, and it makes no claim about the rugby that the results could contradict.

Frequently asked questions

What are good rugby team names?

Clubs do best with a place name plus a simple noun, such as [Town] Warriors or Northside RFC. Social sides suit jokes like Ruck Off, The Third Half or The Knock Ons.

What are funny rugby team names?

Names about the reality of amateur rugby land hardest: The Third Half, Lineout Optional, The Sin Bin Regulars, Scrum Half Empty and Fully Committed Half Fit.