Harlequin Rugby Club

Harlequin Rugby Club

Union	Australian Rugby Union
Branch	Victorian Rugby Union
Nickname(s)	Quins
Founded	1928
Location	Melbourne, Australia
Region	Melbourne Eastern suburbs - Ashwood
Ground(s)	Ashwood Reserve (Capacity: 3,000)
President	Brock Parker
Director of Rugby	Ruhan Van Zyl
Coach(es)	Chris Allen, Dave Palu
Captain(s)	Jack Fitzgerald
Most caps	Neil Carter
Top scorer	Justin Marsters (2019)
League(s)	Dewar Shield
2024	3rd
Team kit
Official website
www.quins.com.au

The Harlequin Rugby Club is an Australian rugby union club formed in 1928. Originally membership was restricted to people born in Britain, but this restriction was removed by the 1950s.^[1] Although Rugby is the main sport, the club still plays friendly cricket, golf and darts. One of Melbourne's largest and oldest clubs, Quins promote the ethos of running with the ball in hand. The club has teams in all Junior age groups (U6 to U18), youth girls 7s (U11 and U15) and six Senior teams including a women's team. 1st Grade have been "Dewar Shield" Premiers 5 times in the last 10 seasons (2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2022) and the Colts U20 have been Premiers 5 times this decade including an undefeated Premiership season in 2019. The club claimed their 5th consecutive Cowper Shield Club Championship in 2021 as the best overall performing club in Victoria across Seniors and Juniors.

Boasting Melbourne's best rugby facilities, the club's main field in 2019 underwent a $1 million upgrade to create a premium national standard playing surface coupled with a full replay electronic scoreboard being installed and regularly hosts Melbourne Rebels, Melbourne Rising and Rugby Victoria representative teams games and training.

According to the constitution the club colours are Black, Maroon, Sage Green and Pale Blue. These have been further defined very specifically by the club as being: