Bath Rugby
| Full name | Bath Rugby | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union | Somerset RFU | |||
| Founded | 1865 | |||
| Location | Bath, Somerset, England | |||
| Ground(s) | The Recreation Ground (Capacity: 14,509) | |||
| Director of Rugby | Johann van Graan | |||
| Captain(s) | Ben Spencer | |||
| Most appearances | Phil Hall (580) | |||
| Top scorer | Jon Callard (2,087) | |||
| Most tries | Tony Swift (161) | |||
| League(s) | Premiership Rugby | |||
| 2024–25 | 1st (Champions) | |||
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| Largest win | ||||
| Bath 84–7 Sale 1996–97 National Division One | ||||
| Largest defeat | ||||
| Gloucester 64–0 Bath (Kingsholm Stadium, Gloucester) 30 April 2022 | ||||
| Official website | ||||
| www | ||||
Bath Rugby is a professional rugby union club in Bath, Somerset, England. They play in Premiership Rugby, England's top division of rugby. Founded in 1865 as Bath Football Club, since 1894 the club has played at the Recreation Ground in the city centre.
Bath Rugby is the joint most successful club in England, having won 21 major trophies. It was particularly successful between 1984 and 1998, when it won 10 Domestic Cups, 6 of it's 7 League titles, and became the first English side to win the European Cup in 1998. In 2008 and 2025, Bath also won the European Challenge Cup, the continent's second-tier competition.
Bath is one of only three clubs never to have been relegated from the top division of English rugby. Bath finished 2nd in the 2023–24 Premiership Rugby season, losing the play off final, this entitles them to play in the 2024-25 European Rugby Champions Cup. The current Head of Rugby is Johann van Graan, who started in July 2022. Matches with local rivals Bristol Bears and Gloucester are referred to as West Country derbies. Bath also have a longstanding rivalry with Leicester Tigers.