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The history of the Bristol rugby side (now known as the Bristol Bears) dates right back to 1888, when the Carlton club merged with rival club Redland Park to create Bristol Rugby Club. The team soon became formidable in the league and, by the 1891-92 season, the Bristol rugby team won 20 out of a possible 24 games. Plus, when the first All Blacks side came to England in 1905, Bristol Rugby Club had the honour of facing them. However, they lost 41-0.
Read on to learn more about the Bristol Bears. On this page, you can view all of the upcoming Bristol Bears fixtures and see the latest news about the team.
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The history of the Bristol rugby side (now known as the Bristol Bears) dates right back to 1888, when the Carlton club merged with rival club Redland Park to create Bristol Rugby Club. The team soon became formidable in the league and, by the 1891-92 season, the Bristol rugby team won 20 out of a possible 24 games. Plus, when the first All Blacks side came to England in 1905, Bristol Rugby Club had the honour of facing them. However, they lost 41-0.
Read on to learn more about the Bristol Bears. On this page, you can view all of the upcoming Bristol Bears fixtures and see the latest news about the team.
Fixtures & Results
Tournaments
Standings
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Heineken Cup -
Challenge Cup
Gallagher Premiership 
- Gallagher Premiership
- Premiership Cup
- Heineken Cup
- Challenge Cup
| Round 6 | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | PD | BP T | BP -7 | BP | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
-  Leicester Tigers | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 168 | 87 | 81 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 27 |
-  Harlequins | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 166 | 118 | 48 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 21 |
-  Saracens | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 202 | 77 | 125 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 20 |
-  Northampton Saints | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 169 | 101 | 68 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 19 |
-  Gloucester | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 164 | 167 | -3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 17 |
-  Exeter Chiefs | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 158 | 136 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 15 |
-  London Irish | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 150 | 157 | -7 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13 |
-  Newcastle Falcons | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 114 | 124 | -10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
-  Sale Sharks | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 137 | 149 | -12 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 13 |
-  Wasps | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 122 | 129 | -7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
-  Worcester Warriors | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 106 | 246 | -140 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
-  Bristol | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 71 | 155 | -84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
-  Bath | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 86 | 167 | -81 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Round 6 |
|---|
| - Leicester Tigers |
| - Harlequins |
| - Saracens |
| - Northampton Saints |
| - Gloucester |
| - Exeter Chiefs |
| - London Irish |
| - Newcastle Falcons |
| - Sale Sharks |
| - Wasps |
| - Worcester Warriors |
| - Bristol |
| - Bath |
Bristol Bears Rugby History
By the 1950s, Bristol Rugby Club were setting a trend for rugby in England. Under the captaincy of John Blake, the side played an entertaining style of rugby that was considered years ahead of its time. This great form even continued into the 1970s and 1980s, when the team won the John Player Cup. During this period, the Bristol rugby team was also crowned as the unofficial English and Anglo-Welsh champions and played a game against the Barbarians to celebrate their centenary season.
However, since rugby union became professional in the 1990s, rugby union in Bristol has undergone a rocky period. Financial problems meant that the Bristol rugby side almost folded in the 1990s and, in 1998, they were relegated to Premiership Two (now the RFU Championship). Thankfully, they were promoted back to the Premiership at the first attempt.
However, following a couple of successful seasons and a brief name change to the Bristol Shoguns after a sponsorship deal with Mitsubishi, off-field issues once again took hold at Bristol and the team was relegated again in 2003.
Players
Forwards
Atunaisa Moli Prop 
Ben Earl Flanker 6 
Bryan Byrne Hooker 
James Dun Flanker 7 
Mitch Eadie Flanker 6 
Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro Prop 
Peter McCabe Prop Backs
Bristol Bears Premiership Rugby History
After a brief hiatus, four more seasons in the Premiership followed as Bristol Rugby Football Club, including a third-placed finish in 2006-07. However, the side was relegated once more in 2008-09. This time, there would be no immediate return to the Premiership and the Bristol rugby team played in the RFU Championship until 2016. During this seven-year period, they actually came top of the table on five occasions, but they lost in the play-off final three times and in the semi-finals once.
After a fourth relegation in 2016-17, the Bristol rugby team is now an established Premiership side. Plus, upon their return to the Premiership in 2018, the team even officially rebranded as the Bristol Bears.
The rebrand seems to have changed the fortunes of the traditional yo-yo team. After all, the Bristol Bears have been in the Premiership ever since and, in the 2019-20 season, the team even came third and made it to the semi-final of the play-offs. In the same season, the Bristol Bears even won the European Rugby Challenge Cup for the first time.
Statistics
2022
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
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All Teams
- All Teams
- Newcastle Falcons 15 Oct
- Harlequins 7 Oct
- Bath 30 Sep
- Wasps 24 Sep
- Saracens 16 Sep
- Harlequins 18 Jun
- Leicester Tigers 4 Jun
- Sale Sharks 27 May
- Gloucester 16 May
- Exeter Chiefs 22 Apr
- Newcastle Falcons 16 Apr
- Bordeaux 3 Apr
- Harlequins 26 Mar
- Northampton Saints 20 Mar
- Wasps 11 Mar
- Worcester Warriors 5 Mar
- Leicester Tigers 26 Feb
- London Irish 20 Feb
- Gloucester 11 Feb
- Sale Sharks 4 Feb
- Bath 28 Jan
- Exeter Chiefs 8 Jan
- Newcastle Falcons 31 Dec
- Harlequins 25 Dec
- Connacht 19 Dec
- Clermont 11 Dec
- Northampton Saints 3 Dec
- Worcester Warriors 27 Nov
- Wasps 21 Nov
- Wasps 9 Oct
- London Irish 3 Oct
- Leicester Tigers 29 Sep
- Wasps 12 Sep
- Northampton Saints 7 Sep
- Worcester Warriors 3 Sep
- Sale Sharks 28 Aug
- Exeter Chiefs 24 Aug
- Gloucester 20 Aug
- Saracens 14 Aug
- Harlequins 7 Mar
- Bath 29 Feb
- Worcester Warriors 22 Feb
- Northampton Saints 15 Feb
- Gloucester 24 Jan
- Leicester Tigers 3 Jan
- Wasps 26 Dec
- Saracens 20 Dec
- London Irish 30 Nov
- Exeter Chiefs 9 Nov
- Sale Sharks 31 Oct
- Harlequins 25 Oct
- Bath 17 Oct
- Exeter Chiefs 11 Oct
- Harlequins 19 Sep
- Newcastle Falcons 17 May
- Sale Sharks 2 May
- Leicester 26 Apr
- Saracens 12 Apr
- Bath 5 Apr
- Worcester 22 Mar
- Northampton 8 Mar
- Gloucester 28 Feb
- Harlequins 22 Feb
- Wasps 14 Feb
- Exeter 4 Jan
- Newcastle 29 Dec
- Sale 21 Dec
- Leicester 30 Nov
- Wasps 23 Nov
- Exeter 17 Nov
- Worcester 6 Oct
- Northampton 28 Sep
- Harlequins 21 Sep
- Gloucester 13 Sep
- Saracens 7 Sep
- Bath 30 Aug
- Newcastle 5 May
- Saracens 28 Apr
- Wasps 15 Apr
- Exeter 7 Apr
- Gloucester 23 Mar
- Worcester 4 Mar
- Bath 25 Feb
- Leicester 17 Feb
- Harlequins 9 Feb
- Northampton 6 Jan
- Sale 31 Dec
- Worcester 25 Dec
- Gloucester 2 Dec
- Leicester 24 Nov
- Bath 17 Nov
- Sale 29 Oct
- Newcastle 7 Oct
- Saracens 29 Sep
- Exeter 22 Sep
- Wasps 17 Sep
- Northampton 10 Sep
- Harlequins 2 Sep
- Attack
- Team Play
- Defence
- Discipline
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Team Play
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Defence
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