Club Overview

We are the one and only Amsterdam Rugby club based in the beautifull capital of the Netherlands since 1930. We have a big expat group and a very strong side. We play in the first division and we are aming for championship for next season. For next season we seeking for players that want to help us with our goal and will get in contact with players who are interested in playing in the netherlands. for next season(2019-2020) we're looking for backline players and frontrow players, with a eu-passport or an working/holiday visa for europe. 

If you don't have an Visa for europe, please don't respond.

We can help with a job search and a car wich will be shared by the foreign players. We can help with housing.
We play our home games at the national rugby stadium of Holland our homeground.

Players must help with training for the youth and we expect you to participate in the club.

Please contact : JDCvanutrecht@hotmail.com 

Club Details

There was a world before the computer, where Dutch was spoken with a ‘sh’ (ask a friendly Nederlander to explain) and for all we knew the moon really was made of cheese. In that world on a beautiful day in 1930, two members of the Amsterdam Athletics Club, H. Bohlmeijer and T. Wijch, decided to give rugby a go. In the Netherlands at that time, rugby was an elite student sport led by the Delft Student Rugby Club. From that day forward, all that began to change.

On 1st October 1931, AAC played their first match, led by captain Puck van der Heyden. They just lost to ARVC, 14-18. After this, AAC just went from strength to strength. In 1940, the club claimed its first national championship (a further 10 national titles would follow, but sadly this could not go on forever).

During the Second World War, rugby took a back seat. After liberation, the sport was quickly reintroduced. In 1946, the club’s very first ‘tour’ to Liverpool took place thanks to the liberators. And long before any governments had the idea of a borderless Europe, AAC was rugbying all over the continent (both before and after the Iron Curtain), happily returning the favor by regularly welcoming foreign friends to Amsterdam.

All the while rugby, not only at AAC but also within the whole of the Netherlands, was growing. By 1984, women were also playing. Today, AAC boasts a ladies team that regularly feeds the international representative squads in both Sevens and 15s rugby. The AAC ladies compete in various international tournaments at the highest level. They have claimed the infamous Ameland beach rugby title, as well holding the Dutch national championship for four consecutive years, from 2008-2012.

Rugby Sevens has been an important part of the AAC setup since 1953, when the club took responsibility for hosting the very first Dutch Sevens championship (which it hosted for 14 years). It was only logical that AAC would then also host the Netherlands’ first international Sevens tournament, the Amsterdam Sevens. It has run since 1973 and still runs to this day (something that Bohlmeijer and Wijch surely could never have imagined they might inspire all those years ago).

AAC is the oldest and most important rugby union in Amsterdam. AAC teams play at every level within the Netherlands (men’s, women’s, veteran’s and youth). There is a place for every kind of rugby fan at AAC and always will be.