[2] The club is affiliated with the Ulster Branch, itself part of the Irish Rugby Football Union.

It is one of the last remaining Belfast rugby clubs not to have amalgamated and still plays at its original ground.

As well as its successful Senior teams, it has a thriving Youth and Mini structure, and was the first Mini rugby team from Ireland to play in the renowned Fundacion Cisneros International rugby tournament in Madrid.

Malone moved to its present location in Gibson Park, Belfast in 1935, eventually purchasing it in 1953.

† Won by 2nd XV British and Irish Lions Ireland Scotland United States