Sponsor an Exiles Player

Sponsor a Dubai Exile

The Dubai Exiles have been making it possible for people to enjoy and play rugby in Dubai since 1966. It started when a small group of British expatriates decided to resurrect some long lost talents and well-worn boots to start playing rugby in the UAE, they named their ‘club’ The Dubai Exiles.

Today, the Exiles compete in the premier competitions and leagues of the Middle East; UAE Premiership, UAE Division 1, West Asia Premiership, UAE Women’s 7s Series and the Gulf Men’s league of the Emirates Dubai Sevens.

Left to right: Shane Weweje, Dave Gairn, and Tarek ‘Taz’ Mursal

Rugby for Everyone

The 2022-23 season saw the Exiles produce 33 players, boys, girls, men and women, who represented the UAE on the international rugby stage. Many of these players give up their valuable spare time to help encourage and coach the mini and youth sides at the club. The knowledge and experience that they pass on from competing at the highest level in the Middle East is invaluable.

The Dubai Exiles are also immensely proud to have been heavily involved in the promotion of rugby 7s at the highest level. In 1999 the Club, along with our patron HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, our then sponsor Emirates Airlines, and the Arabian Gulf Rugby Football Union (the AGRFU) were honoured to host the first ever games to be played in the I.R.B. World Sevens Series. A privilege which has been repeated annually to this day.

Exiles’ Ladies Nicole Brits who regularly helps with the Minis on a Saturday morning

Exiles’ captain, John Donnan, who’s with the Under 14s

Sponsor an Exile

Rugby in the UAE is amateur. Our senior players who give up their time to develop our mini and youth rugby also have to pay membership fees etc to play rugby in the UAE with the Dubai Exiles.  We’d be grateful to anybody who’d like to sponsor our senior players, men’s rugby or women’s rugby, for the 2023-23 season.

Your generosity will also help support players of different nationalities and of limited financial means to access a home from home and play the sport they love. A sport that they can enjoy and progress in an environment where there is insurance, medical supervision and safe, technically accurate coaching.

There are two tiers of player sponsorship available for the 2023-24 season – Silver and Gold: