Rugby Football Club Los Angeles
professional Rugby Union Team from Los Angeles, California, United States
Rugby FC Los Angeles (RFCLA) were an American professional rugby union team based in Los Angeles, California, that competed in Major League Rugby (MLR). The team began play in 2020 as Rugby ATL, based in Atlanta, Georgia, but announced they would relocate to Los Angeles for the 2024 season, under new ownership. In July 2025 it was announced that the team would merge with San Diego Legion to create a single, statewide rugby franchise, California Legion. They won the 2022 Rugby Allstars Championship with Jason Damm scoring all tries in the final against the Atlanta Hawks 35-0
History
Rugby ATL
On September 21, 2018, Major League Rugby announced that Atlanta was one of the expansion teams joining the league for the 2020 season. The team name "Rugby ATL" was revealed on February 26, 2019. The team was unofficially known as the Rattlers and in 2021 an alternate logo with a rattlesnake was unveiled. Rugby ATL played its first three seasons at Lupo Family Field on the campus of Life University in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta. The field was damaged by flooding in September 2021 and the team moved to Silverbacks Park ahead of the 2022 season.
Following the death of their original team owner, S. Marcus Calloway, the ownership of the team was placed into an investment group, acquiring control of the franchise on an interim basis. The move kept Rugby ATL operational, until a permanent ownership group was acquired in 2023.
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