[4] From 1997 to 2009 Kandy SC has won every President's Trophy Knockout Tournament with the exception of the 1998 series, where it lost 26-30 in the final round to Ceylonese Rugby & Football Club (CR&FC).

[5][6] On March 10, 2010 the rugby team of the Kandy Sports Club left for a 15-day tour of Dubai and South Africa.

[7] The Kandy Sports Club was founded by a group expatriate coffee planters, however it has mainly had local players coming in from Kandyan school teams, namely Trinity College, Kandy and tradition in Sri Lanka, Kingswood College which was the first school to introduce rugby in Sri Lanka (by L. E. Blaze, an Old-Trinitian), though it gave up the game soon after and St. Anthony’s College which joined in as a progressive force.

[8] The squad as of January 2022[9] Nigel Ratwatte Sanushka Abeywickrama Heshan Jansen Tharinda Rathwatte Dilushka Dange Srinath Sooriyabandara Chathura Zoysa Lasitha Attangoda Ali Mohamed Charles Praveen Thilina Bandara Roshan Weerarathne Jason Dissanayake The Kandy Sports Club has had some notable players including players who have played internationally and internationals who have played for Kandy.

Some notable players include: Sri Lanka skipper and dynamic Anthonian Priyantha Ekanayake with Lakshaman Ekanayake, Indrajith Bandaranayake, Nalaka Weerakkoddy, Leroy Fonseka, Manjula Pathirana, Shyam Sideek, Rizvi Suhaib, Inthi Marikar, Lasantha Wijesuriya, Fijians Kitioni Ratrudradra, Bati Penaia, Tony Greanny and Viliame Satala.