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Welcome to the Balmy Beach RFC! We are one of Canada’s oldest, largest and most successful grassroots rugby clubs. The Balmy Beach RFC constists of 4 men’s teams, 1 women’s team, and youth teams for boys and girls from Under-8’s up to Under-18’s, and an alumni section.

Established in 1955, Balmy Beach Rugby Rugby Club has a long and storied history in the Toronto and Ontario rugby communities. We are a progressive club whose members have gone on to feature for Canada and teams around the world.

Serving Toronto’s Leslieville and Beaches neighbourhoods, Balmy Beach Rugby Club runs programs for players ages 6-50+. Our programs prioritize strong fundamentals, fun, and a love of the game at all stages of life.

Balmy Beach Alumni are a key component of our Club and remain engaged with our section long after their playing days end. For more information on their activities, head to the Alumni section of our site.

Since 1955, the Balmy Beach Rugby Senior Men’s section has won a remarkable 13 McCormick Cups and 4 Carling Cups, the highest honours for a Senior Men’s team in the province.

As a club, our objective is to develop and empower players of all ages to go on to long and successful rugby careers, whether they be playing, coaching, or officiating.

Balmy Beach Rugby welcomes new and experienced players of all ages, genders and abilities.

SENIOR RUGBY

Registration for the 2026 season is NOW OPEN

Registration for the 2026 Summer season is NOW OPEN!

The Balmy Beach RFC is the most successful rugby organization in Ontario.

During the 2026 Season, the Balmy Beach RFC will field 4 men’s teams and 1 women’s team. 3 of the men’s teams will compete in the Ontario Rugby Union and 1 will compete in the Toronto Rugby Union. Our women will compete in the Toronto Rugby Union.

The season runs from May until August or September. We practice and play home games at Tubs & Gee Gage Field, in the east end of Toronto. The Senior Women practice on Mondays and Wednesdays, and the Senior Men practice on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Games are on Saturdays.

JUNIOR RUGBY

Registration for the 2026 season is NOW OPEN

Registration for the 2026 Summer season is open for girls and boys U6 to U12.

An incredible rugby program that starts with flag rugby at U6 and runs to U18. There are girls and boys squads from U14 to U18. All players are welcome!

You can find more information about the various age groups and coaching staff in our Junior Rugby section.

Practices run twice weekly starting in May, with festivals and matches across the GTA throughout the summer.

Email Junior Director Chris Kalbfleisch at balmybeachjuniors@gmail.com for more information, or start registering using the button below.

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Myles Martin Weekly Alumni Report for November 11th

For anyone who doesn’t know me, my name is Iain McLeish and I am the president of Balmy Beach Rugby. I don’t typically send out club wide emails as most communication goes from coaches, through TeamSnap to the teams. However I wanted to reach out with a couple of important off season announcements/updates. Please find in this email the following information:

Thank you Chris Kalfleisch and Andrew Steele – Many of you will have seen the TeamSnap message that went out last week from Chris Kalbfleisch communicating that after a decade of hard work, himself and Andrew Steele (Junior Treasurer) are stepping down. I wanted to take this opportunity to send out a club wide email thanking both of them for the tremendous amount of hard work they have both put into the Junior program here at Balmy Beach Rugby. Their hard work has helped to grow this club’s Junior program to be one of the largest and most successful in the province.

Call of interested for Junior Coordinators – The growth in our Junior program over the last decade has been extraordinary. However this means that the way the Junior Section was set up to operate years ago, was designed at a time when our numbers were about half of what they currently are. As a club we are going to take this opportunity to add several additional roles into the Junior program. These roles will be:

– Mini’s Coordinator (focusing on U6-U12)
– Junior Boys Coordinator (focusing on U14-U18 boys)
– Junior Girls Coordinator (focusing on U14-U18 girls)
– And then an overall Junior Coordinator to assist with administrative tasks for all age groups

With so many parents/guardians/coaches in our program with rugby and general sports experience I wanted to reach out to see if anyone was interested in applying for one of these roles. The full job description for each role is attached to this email below. If anyone is interested please send an email to balmybeachrugbyjuniors@gmail.com. I will contact anyone interested with more info separately.

Call of interest for coaches for 2027 – Beach’s programmes only run because of the hard work of volunteer coaches, and we thank everyone who put their hand up to coach at every age group in the 2026 season. As we start to put together our 2027 season I wanted to put out a call for anyone who is interested in coaching with our juniors next year. There are several requirements for anyone interested in coaching, most importantly a Police Vulnerable Sector Check. This can take several weeks to obtain, so anyone interested in coaching next season, send me an email at balmybeachrugbyjuniors@gmail. I will contact anyone interested with more info separately.

Call of interest for Alumni Director – This item doesn’t really have anything to do with Juniors, but with so many parents/guardians who were themselves former Beach players I thought I would include it here also. Our current Alumni Directors term is up (3 years). The job description is attached below. If anyone is interested […]