Exiles’ stalwart and #premiership hooker Dave Gairn will be the Head Coach of the Under 16 Girls for the upcoming 2024-25 UAE rugby season. Dave, a PE Teacher and Head of Rugby at Nord Anglia International School Dubai, hails from Southport, just north of Liverpool in England. He joined the Exiles in 2017 and has been…
Registration for the 2024-25 UAE rugby season is now open! We’ll be back on those lovely, green, and world-class rugby pitches, at The Sevens Stadium on the morning of Saturday August 31st. It’s been all go behind the scenes at Dubai Exiles RFC, the UAE and Gulf region’s oldest and most successful rugby club. Playing…
Exiles and UAE rugby’s most capped international and cuddly Number 8, Jaen Botes, will be taking the reins as Head Coach of the Dubai Exiles Under 13s for the upcoming 2024-25 rugby season. Jaen is a hugely experienced and formidable player who has been wearing an Exiles shirt in the UAE Premiership since 2017. The…
England and Loughborough Lightning scrum half, Jess Weaver, will head up the coaching team of the Dubai Exiles Under 18 Girls for the upcoming 2024-25 UAE rugby season. Jess recently took up her position as Head of EYFS Physical Education at Kent College Dubai, after completing a BASc in Sports and Exercise. Jess, a hugely…
Exiles Hooker and Nord Anglia PE Teacher, Dave Gairn, scores his first of two tries It was another round of West Asia and UAE Premiership rugby at The Sevens Stadium on Friday night with the Exiles’ shortest away trip of the season, about a hundred metres or so from Pitch 7 to Pitch 6 to…
Former England international Nolli Waterman was joined by students from GEMS schools as part of the HSBC World Of Opportunity Programme. It was another exciting weekend of Mini & Youth rugby at The Sevens Stadium with almost 3,500 young rugby players from the UAE and further afield coming together to enjoy two days of tournament…
The second half of the West Asia and UAE Premiership rugby season gets back on track this Saturday evening with the visit of Abu Dhabi Harlequins to Pitch 7 at The Sevens Stadium. Kick Off at 7pm. The Harlequins are two out of three in the UAE Premiership with wins at the Jebel Ali Dragons…
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’…
