Rugby union in London

London has several of England's leading rugby union clubs, and the city is home to 13 teams playing in national leagues, and many regional amateur leagues regulated by the London and South East Division Rugby Football Union.

In more recent years, a modern tradition has seen the four leading London clubs play out of Twickenham Stadium during the first round of the Premiership, in a double-header.

The Blackheath club also helped organise the world's first rugby international (between England and Scotland in Edinburgh on 27 March 1871) and hosted the first international between England and Wales ten years later – the players meeting and getting changed at the Princess of Wales public house.

They remained in Oxford until their most recent relegation at the end of the 2014–15 season, after which they returned to Greater London at Old Deer Park in Richmond.

Shortly before their move, Wasps purchased the major football ground Ricoh Arena, and share it with Coventry City F.C.

The stadium is also host to The Varsity Match between Oxford and Cambridge as well as the English schools' Daily Mail Cup final.

The London Women's Sevens was originally planned to be an annual event, but did not appear on the 2015–16 series schedule.