Rugby clubs in Australia
157 listed across 7 states and territories.
157rugby clubs
Listed across 7 states and territories, in alphabetical order — there is no ranking here to buy.
SOURCE·OpenStreetMap·AU EXTRACT 2026-07-29·REVIEWED JUL 2026
League and union share this page, on purpose
OpenStreetMap tags a great many Australian rugby clubs as simply "rugby", without saying which code, so splitting league from union would mean guessing at every club that did not say. We would rather show you both and let the club's own name tell you — most of them do — than sort them into two confident lists that are quietly wrong.
League is concentrated in New South Wales and Queensland; union is thinner and spread more evenly. Both are here.
How this list was assembled
- One Overpass query per state, so a club's state is known by construction and never inferred.
- Anything that is ground rather than an organisation — a pitch, a court, a municipal pool — is dropped. 6,655 records did not survive that test.
- Records sharing a name within 250 m are merged as one venue, keeping the richer copy — 248 here.
- Each club is matched to the nearest named suburb inside its own state, capped by settlement size, or left unassigned.
- Nothing is ranked, weighted or promoted. No club can pay to move.
region = the query it came from (certain) suburb = nearest named place, same region, within cap rank = none
All rugby clubs
SOURCE·OpenStreetMap·AU EXTRACT 2026-07-29·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions people actually ask
- How many rugby clubs are there in Australia?
- 157 are recorded in OpenStreetMap as of 2026-07-29, spread across 7 states and territories. That is what the open map knows, not a census — a club nobody has added yet does not appear.
- Do these rugby clubs pay to be listed here?
- No. Sideline takes no money from any club and has no ranking to sell. Listings are ordered alphabetically or by distance, never by payment.
- Why do some entries have no phone number or website?
- 42 of the 157 have a website on record. The rest simply have not had one added to OpenStreetMap. A blank field here always means "not recorded", never "none" — and anyone can fix it at the source in about two minutes.