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This was launched on Thursday 22 November at Murrayfield, Edinburgh with a £1M sponsorship deal with Umbro. The new logo was first worn on the nation's shirts at Parc des Princes, Paris on Saturday 19 January 1991 with the name 'Scottish Rugby Union' below the thistle. This was soon replaced with just 'Scottish Rugby'.
This led the SRU to replace the grass with a Desso surface from the start of the 2014 season. [16] A naming rights deal with BT was agreed in May 2014, resulting in the stadium being officially named as the BT Murrayfield Stadium. [17] Scottish Rugby and Scottish Gas agreed a new five-year partnership deal starting in July 2023. This will ...
Edinburgh Rugby Stadium, known as the Hive Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a rugby stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland.It is the home of Edinburgh Rugby. [2] The stadium is located next to Murrayfield Stadium (and Murrayfield Ice Rink) on land which was among several rugby training pitches (some still remain), situated beside the Water of Leith adjacent to the Saughtonhall neighbourhood. [3]
The Scottish Football Union was founded on Monday 3 March 1873 at a meeting held at Glasgow Academy, Elmbank Street, Glasgow. [1] Eight clubs were represented at the foundation, Glasgow Academicals; Edinburgh Academical Football Club; West of Scotland F.C.; University of St Andrews Rugby Football Club; Royal High School FP; Merchistonians; Edinburgh University RFC; and Glasgow University.
The SRU defaulted on payments of competition prize money to ERC, requiring the consortium to invest their own additional funds, and the SRU refused to share bar takings from Edinburgh Rugby matches at Murrayfield with ERC – at the same time, the SRU was unhappy about the signing policy and the unavailability of players for international team ...
Their most recent meeting took place at Murrayfield Stadium in November 2024, and was won 27-13 by Scotland. Scotland won seven of the first nine matches between the sides but then had to wait twenty-seven years until November 2009 for their next victory, as the next sixteen games were all won by Australia.
1973 was the centenary year of the Scottish Rugby Union ("SRU") and as part of the centenary celebrations the SRU decided to hold an international Rugby sevens tournament. The president of the SRU at the time, A.W. Wilson, later wrote of the decision to hold a sevens tournament, "It seemed most appropriate to us, in our Centenary Year, that we ...
v Australia at Murrayfield 446: William Roughead: Hooker: 1927-12-17: v Australia at Murrayfield 447: Willie Welsh: No. 8: 1927-12-17: v Australia at Murrayfield 448: Jimmy Ferguson: Prop: 1928-02-04: v Wales at Murrayfield 449: John Goodfellow: Wing: 1928-02-04: v Wales at Murrayfield 450: Jo Hume: Centre: 1928-02-25: v Ireland at Murrayfield 451