Old Glory DC
Old Glory DC RFC is a professional rugby union team that is a member of Major League Rugby (MLR), founded in 2018. The organization is led by two local business leaders, former USA Eagles' Paul Sheehy and local club rugby player Chris Dunlavey. The Scottish Rugby Union has a part ownership of the team. The team is coached by Nate Osborne in an interim capacity after former head coach Andrew Douglas departed the club halfway through the 2022 season. Old Glory played an abbreviated schedule of exhibition games in 2019 and began regular-season MLR play in  2020. History. Major League Rugby (MLR) announced on May 15, 2018, that an MLR expansion team would begin play in Washington, D.C., by no later than the 2020 season and confirmed the team in November 2018. On February 6, 2019, the team name was announced as Old Glory DC. On March 28, 2019, the Scottish Rugby Union announced that it had purchased a minority interest in the team. Old Glory DC moved to Segra Field in Loudoun County, Virginia for the 2021 season. The team will return to Segra Field for the 2022 season. After losing seven matches in a  row to start the 2022 season, Old Glory DC announced the immediate departure of head coach Andrew Douglas on March 29, 2022. At the time of his departure, he was the longest-tenured head coach in MLR, having joined for the 2019 exhibition season before the first MLR season in 2020. He left with a 10-17-1 overall MLR record and a 37.5% winning percentage. Three days later, on April 1, Old Glory DC announced that former NOLA Gold head coach Nate Osborne would serve as an interim head coach for the remainder of the season while the team  conducts a search for a permanent replacement. Roster. The Old Glory DC squad for the 2022 Major League Rugby season is: 2019 season. All games in the 2019 season were exhibition games and did not count in the MLR standings. 2020 season. On March 12, 2020, MLR announced the season would go on hiatus immediately for 30 days due to fears surrounding the 2019–2020 coronavirus pandemic. It was cancelled the following week. 2022 season. Exhibition. Old Glory played two preseason matches in January 2022. Both matches were held at the St. James Sports Complex, a series of indoor fields in  Springfield, Virginia. Regular season. Old Glory will play eighteen matches in the regular season with two bye weeks. Their home matches will be played at Segra Field in Leesburg, Virginia. Because the MLR's Eastern Conference has one team fewer than the Western Conference, Old Glory will play the Toronto Arrows three times in the regular season, once at home and twice in Toronto.