The club regularly fields three teams and is also involved with Broughton and Trinity Accies in the Edinburgh BATs initiative, a community amateur sports club providing youth rugby across northern Edinburgh.

That same season they experienced a successful Scottish Cup run, reaching the final with victories over Premiership 1 teams Currie, Hawick and Boroughmuir.

[3] A book was also published that had been commissioned to celebrate the club's 150th anniversary, The Accies: The Cradle of Scottish Rugby.

Seven players of the original Scotland side were Academicals, including the captain, FJ Moncrieff.

The following (not previously listed above) former Edinburgh Academical players have represented Scotland at full international level in rugby union.