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Spring 2000, the Malta Rugby Football Union, achieved the important milestone of joining the International Rugby Board and filing application with the FIRA. That year, Maltese rugby was also represented in the Rugby World Cup preliminaries for the first time ever. This milestone could also be called a new beginning.

There is a story to Malta Rugby prior to the founding of the Rugby Association of Malta, now known as the Malta Rugby Football Union, and the Malta Rugby Football League in 1991. The game in Malta can trace its origins to the Overseas Rugby Club that was established in the post-war years (1946). The members of Overseas consisted of British and Commonwealth expatriate servicemen and Maltese civilians and military personnel who participated in competitions against Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and Army teams visiting, or stationed in, Malta over the years. In the 1970s, two school and college sides developed at St. Edwards College and Tal-Handaq College, with even some matches played by schoolboys against the hardened veterans from the services! But the senior game was mostly played by expatriates and a few native players. When Malta pulled out of NATO and the Services left the island in 1979, the game in Malta seemed to be breathing its last were it not for a tight-knit group of die-hards who formed a social rugby club called the Phoenicians in 1983. Since then the game in Malta has gone from strength to strength.

In 1991, the League saw a growing participation that was sparked off by a number of University rugby fanatics and some ex-UK public schoolboys, who formed the University Rugby Football Club, and the re-establishment of Overseas after a period of dormancy. New clubs joined the fray with the Kavallieri and Stompers being the more recent additions, the former as an offshoot of the Overseas in the early 90s when Overseas were also fielding a development team, and the latter emerging from development efforts by veterans Bryan Corlett, Stuart Middleton and school-teacher Simon Vincenti at St. Edward's College, in the mid to late 1990s. Now, the MRFU enjoys a growing membership of clubs, participating in a healthy League, Round Robin and a number of Xs and VIIs fixtures. The mild weather of Malta makes it an excellent venue for visiting sides as witnessed by a growing number of touring sides from year to year.

MRFU Council Members & Staff 2006-2007
MRFU Council Members & Staff 2007-2008
MRFU Council Members & Staff 2008-2009
 
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