[2] The Banffshire Journal and General Advertiser of Tuesday 5 December 1905 reporting:[3] A Rugby Football Club has been formed, under the name Turriff Rugby Football Club (colour, blue), and the under mentioned have consented to become patrons:- Patroness Miss Grant Duff Ainslie of Delgaty Castle; patrons.

The Peterhead Sentinel and General Advertiser for Buchan District of Saturday 29 September 1906 stating:[4] The annual meeting of the Turriff Rugby Football Club was held in the Fife Arms Hotel on Wednesday.

John Thomas Ralph McKay, a banker and accountant to trade, married Edith Julia Marr in 1910, joined the Bank of India; but on the First World War he enlisted with Vaughan's Rifles in the Indian Army.

The club co-president John Hester explained the process to find a home:[10] We’ve been working for almost a year with the council and Live Life Aberdeenshire to find a permanent place to play as for the last year we’ve been holding weekly training sessions on the facility at the leisure centre.

Due to the grounds prior use and continued use as a showground, the rugby union club boasts a grandstand.

[11] Turriff RFC co-president John Hester hailed the rugby pitch as one of the best in north-east Scotland:[11] It's fantastic to physically see it, the hard work has paid off.

From our first chats with Stuart [Grant], this is what we wanted, to have a rugby club in the community, and to be here with the posts up and lines painted.

It's an emotional day for me and the rest of the guys to get to where we are and have arguably the best rugby pitch in the North-east of Scotland.

One of the highlights in the club's short history was the Turriff Women's side winning the Huntly Sevens in 2019.

Although normal training is off, we're all keeping up our fitness individually and we are really looking forward to entering the development league once rugby resumes.

"[8] Rugby union - outwith the highest professional and international level - was halted in Scotland due to coronavirus in March 2020.

As rugby union is growing in the north-east of Scotland, there is the prospect of local derbies for new clubs like Turriff.