Harlequin F.C.
| Full name | Harlequins Rugby Football Club | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Union | Middlesex RFU | ||
| Nickname(s) | Quins, The Entertainers, The Quarters | ||
| Founded | 1866 (as "Hampstead Football Club") | ||
| Location | Twickenham, London, England | ||
| Region | London Borough of Richmond | ||
| Ground(s) | Twickenham Stoop (Capacity: 14,800) | ||
| Chairman | David Morgan | ||
| CEO | Laurie Dalrymple | ||
| Director of Rugby | Billy Millard | ||
| Coach(es) | Danny Wilson | ||
| Captain(s) | Alex Dombrandt | ||
| Most appearances | Danny Care (386) | ||
| Top scorer | Nick Evans (2249) | ||
| Most tries | Dan Lambert (253) | ||
| League(s) | Premiership Rugby | ||
| 2024–25 | 7th | ||
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| Official website | |||
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Harlequins (officially Harlequin Football Club) is a professional rugby union club that plays in Premiership Rugby, the top level of English rugby union. Their home ground is the Twickenham Stoop, located in Twickenham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
The club, which was founded in 1866 as "Hampstead Football Club", split the following year with some of the membership forming Wasps RFC. Three years later Hampstead renamed itself Harlequins and became one of the founding members of the Rugby Football Union in 1871. For more than a hundred years, Harlequins had been one of the top UK teams during the amateur era and this continued with the introduction of professionalism in 1995. The club has been champions of England twice, winning the title in 2012 and most recently in 2021. They won the European Challenge Cup in 2001, 2004 and 2011, the joint most wins of any team in the competition, and the domestic cup in 1988, 1991 and 2013. It remains the only founding club member of the RFU to still be in the top flight of English rugby.
Harlequins has the largest social media following of any club in the Premiership, the 2nd largest of any club in Europe, after Stade Toulousain, and is comfortably within the Top 10 of any club in the world.
The current club captain is Alex Dombrandt, with Billy Millard Director of Rugby for the 2024–25 season.