Editing Glasgow (section)

===Rugby union===
Glasgow has a professional [[rugby union]] club, the [[Glasgow Warriors]], which plays in the [[European Rugby Champions Cup]] and [[United Rugby Championship]] alongside teams from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Italy and South Africa. The Warriors current home is [[Scotstoun Stadium]] and has been since 2012, previously they played at [[Firhill Stadium]]. They have won the [[Melrose 7s]] in both 2014 and 2015 and were also crowned champions of the [[Pro12]] (later rebranded as the United Rugby Championship) at the end of the 2014/15 season after beating Irish side Munster in Belfast.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/rugby-union/32929818|title=Glasgow Warriors 31-13 Munster|date=30 May 2015|work=BBC Sport|access-date=3 June 2015}}</ref> Warriors won URC in the 2023/24 season after defeating South African team [[Bulls (rugby union)|Bulls]] in the Grand Final in [[Pretoria]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/articles/cpwwg9j306jo |title=Bulls 16-21 Glasgow Warriors: URC final glory for Scots in Pretoria |website=BBC Sport|date=22 June 2024 }}</ref>

In the Scottish League, [[Glasgow Hawks RFC]] was formed in 1997 by the merger of two of Glasgow's oldest clubs: [[Glasgow Academicals RFC|Glasgow Academicals]] and [[Glasgow High Kelvinside]] (GHK). Despite the merger, the second division teams of Glasgow Academicals and Glasgow High Kelvinside re-entered the Scottish rugby league in 1998.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.scotsman.com/sport/rugby-union/cup-put-feather-cap-glasgow-hawks-1539577|title=Cup that put feather in the cap of Glasgow Hawks|date=16 April 2014|newspaper=The Scotsman|access-date=15 October 2022}}</ref> Another of the Glasgow area's most prominent clubs [[Glasgow Hutchesons Aloysians RFC]] (GHA) has its roots in the south of the city (nowadays technically they are based just outside the city in the suburb of [[Giffnock]] in [[East Renfrewshire]]). GHA was formed in 2002 with the merger of two of Glasgow's leading clubs at the time, [[Glasgow Southern RFC]] and [[Hutchesons Aloysians]] RFC.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/1813719.stm|title = Glasgow rugby merger plan|date = 11 February 2002}}</ref>

[[Cartha Queens Park RFC|Cartha Queen's Park]] play at Dumbreck, within the city.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.carthaqp.org/rugby/youth-rugby/ |title=Cartha Queens Park Rugby Club - Youth & Minis Rugby |access-date=24 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110209122311/http://www.carthaqp.org/rugby/youth-rugby/ |archive-date=9 February 2011 }}</ref> Glasgow was also home to one of the oldest rugby clubs in the country, [[West of Scotland F.C.]], which was formed in 1865 and was a founding member of the [[Scottish Rugby Union]]. The club was originally based in Partick at [[Hamilton Crescent]] but is now based outside the city, at [[Milngavie]] in [[East Dunbartonshire]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.westofscotlandfc.co.uk/about-us/club-history |title=Club History |website=westofscotlandfc.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402122826/http://www.westofscotlandfc.co.uk/about-us/club-history |archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref>