Last night’s clash between UAE Premiership Champions, Dubai Exiles RFC and visiting West Asia Premiership Champions, Bahrain proved to be another absolute belter of a rugby match. Anybody who’d come along to The Sevens Stadium yesterday evening was treated to an old fashioned, no quarter given and no quarter asked, thrilling game of rugby. Exiles’…
Former England 7s’ player Jordan Ainslie will take up the reins of coaching the Dubai Exiles Under 19 Girls for the 2023-24 UAE rugby season. Jordan, a product of Warwick School, England, is an accomplished Sevens specialist with international pedigree. He pulled on his first England shirt, aged just 19, at the inaugural Oktoberfest 7s…
Dubai Exiles RFC’s long standing Youth Development Partners, HSBC, have revamped the World Rugby Sevens Series which kicks off in Dubai this December (December 2nd to 3rd 2023). Stephen Moss, Regional Chief Executive Officer – HSBC Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye commented: “HSBC is excited to announce the launch of ‘HSBC SVNS’ – the…
It’s only 10 weeks until the start of the BIGGER & BETTER 2023-24 rugby season! The coming season has been extended by a whole month with the UAE rugby Mini & Youth Finals scheduled to be played on the 27th of April. That’s an extra month of fun, games and fixtures with Dubai Exiles RFC…
International 15-a-Side rugby makes a return this July with the UAE National side making a trip to Pakistan to play two tests in Lahore. UAE Head Coach, Apollo Perelini, has picked eleven (11) Dubai Exiles to board the plane and represent this great nation on the international stage. Lukas Waddington, Dave Gairn, Moeneeb Galant, Pieter…
After a very successful season of UAE Mini & Youth rugby for the Dubai Exiles Under 13s, in which they won the Emirates Dubai 7s Youth Festival title as well as finishing the season as UAE Champions, it was off to Nairobi to visit Kenya Harlequins RFC. Kenya Harlequin Football Club is one of the…
Huge congratulations to Dubai Exiles’ Joshua Fritz who ran out on the grass at Loftus Versfield, the home of the Vodacom Bulls, yesterday afternoon in the South Africa Rugby Under 19 Cup. It turned into a great afternoon for ‘Fritzy’ and his teammates leaving Loftus Versfield and returning home to the DHL Stadium with a…
There is no doubt that the 2022-23 UAE rugby season has been an incredible 8 months of rugby for Dubai Exiles RFC. It has also been an incredible season for the twenty six (26) Dubai Exiles who were chosen to pull on the UAE National shirt and represent this great nation on the international rugby stage…
