Harlequin F.C. home venue Twickenham Stoop
Harlequins (officially Harlequin Football Club) is a professional rugby union club that plays in Premiership Rugby, the top level of English rugby union. Their home ground is the Twickenham Stoop, located in Twickenham, south-west London.
The club, which was founded in 1866 as "Hampstead Football Club", split the following year with some of the membership forming Wasps RFC. Three years later Hampstead renamed itself Harlequins and became one of the founding members of the Rugby Football Union in 1871. For more than a hundred years, Harlequins have been one of the top UK teams during the amateur era and this continued with the introduction of professionalism in 1995. The club has been champions of England twice winning the title in 2012 and most recently in 2021. They won the European Challenge Cup in 2001, 2004 and 2011, and the domestic cup in 1988, 1991 and 2013.
The current club captain is Stephan Lewies, with Billy Millard Director of Rugby Performance and Tabai Matson Head Coach for the 2021/22 season.Acquisition of The Stoop
In 1963, Harlequin FC acquired an athletics ground with 14 acres (57,000 m2) just over the road from the Twickenham ground, which became its training pitch. This subsequently become their home: the Stoop Memorial Ground which in 2005 was renamed The Twickenham Stoop. This is named after Adrian Dura Stoop, who won 15 caps for England and is said to have been the person who developed modern back play.Stadium
Harlequins play at the Twickenham Stoop, which is situated in Twickenham in south-west London.  The stadium is named after former England international Adrian Stoop, who was a Harlequins player and later president of the club.
The club acquired the then athletics pitch in 1963, a ground of 14 acres (5.7 ha), close by to the RFU ground. It became the training pitch, and eventually, the Harlequins home ground. The site provided a ground that could be developed, and since then much has been done in terms of upgrading with a current capacity of 14,800. The stadium was known as the Stoop Memorial Ground for many years, but it was renamed the Twickenham Stoop in 2005.
They also play two games at Twickenham Stadium, one in December called the Big Game, and one in June called the Big Summer Kick-Off.
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