London Irish
London Irish - also known as The Exiles - is an English rugby union club based in Sunbury, Surrey where the senior squad train, and the youth teams and senior academy play home games. The professional club shares the Sunbury facilities with London Irish Amateur RFC and competes in the top division of English rugby union, the Guinness Premiership. The club also competes in the Anglo-Welsh EDF Energy Cup as well as the European Rugby Cups; the Heineken Cup and European Challenge Cup. The club will play at the Madejski Stadium in Reading, Berkshire, some 40 miles west of central London, until 2026.

London Irish was founded in 1898 for the young Irish people of the city, following the formation of similar clubs in London, including the London Welsh and London Scottish. The team plays in green and white colours, with a reversed away strip. The club's mascot is an Irish Wolfhound called Digger. London Irish won its first major trophy in 2002, claiming the Powergen Cup (now EDF Energy Cup) and in the 2007/2008 a resurgent team came close to a place in the Heineken Cup Final losing out to Toulouse in a tight encounter at Twickenham stadium.
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