The inter club league rugby tournament which sees the top eight teams in the country are to compete in front of a crowd of rugby fans and once again the Kandy Sports Club rugby team is in good form and are all out to do well to win the league title for the 24th time, so the experienced coach Fazil Marija is sure to guide the players well..
Most number of wins of the rugby league title is achieved by Kandy Sports Club since1994,that is the year old boy of Dharmaraja College Indrajith Bandaranayake led the side and players gave of their best and late Dr. Sarath Kapuwtatte was the president and he led this post on 20 occasions. This club has been the most successful club in the Sri Lanka Rugby Championship, winning twenty three league titles in the last twenty nine years in the period between 1994 to 2023, which is the most wins by any club since the expanded competition commenced in 1950. The years they won are 1994,1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,2005, 2006, 2007,2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016,2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023.
Kandy SC’s rise in rugby began with the arrival of one of the major rugby promoters who gave a big hand for the success that is former Royal College, CR & FC,Colombo Clubs and Sri Lanka rugby player Malik Devapriya Samarawickrama. His contribution for Kandy Sports Club should be weighed in gold..Kandy SC is a club with a long and proud history, it took 44 years for this club to win the league championship and become almost an invincible force in the rugby field by ending the dominance of the Colombo based clubs. Even the schools were encouraged and raised their standards in Kandy.
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