Mounts Bay RFC were a Cornish rugby

Cornish rugby

Rugby union in Cornwall is one of the Duchy's most popular sports.-CRFU:The Cornwall Rugby Football Union was formed in 1883. It is a union of 39 rugby union clubs which includes every rugby union club in Cornwall, the open age Cornwall representative side and representative teams at various age...

 club formed in December 1999 based in Penzance

Penzance

Penzance is a town, civil parish, and port in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is approximately 75 miles west of Plymouth and 300 miles west-southwest of London...

, UK and folded in July 2009. Initially formed as an offshoot from Penzance and Newlyn RFC

Cornish Pirates

The Cornish Pirates are an English professional rugby union team who play in the Championship, the second level of the English rugby union pyramid, and are the premier Cornish rugby club. Formerly known as Penzance & Newlyn Pirates, the Cornish Pirates play their home games and train at their...

 the club operated as an independent club. Mounts Bay were promoted at the end of the 2007-08 season and competed in National Division Two in the 2008-09 season. However, in the Summer of 2009 the club folded citing financial problems and withdrew from the league structure altogether.

League Record

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style="width:120pt;"| >League Level Teams Pos style="width:20pt;"|P style="width:20pt;"| W style="width:20pt;"| D style="width:20pt;"| L style="width:20pt;"|F style="width:20pt;"| A style="width:20pt;"|Pts Notes	>-	2000-01	Cornwall 2 Cornwall League 2 Tribute Cornwall 2 is an English level ten Rugby Union league for clubs based in Cornwall. The Champions and runners-up are promoted to Tribute Cornwall 1. There is no relegation. After a break of two seasons the competition recommences in 2011-12....	10	8	1st	14	13	0	1	432	97	26	Promoted		>-	2001-02	Cornwall 1 Cornwall League 1 Tribute Cornwall 1 is an English level nine Rugby Union league for clubs based in Cornwall. The Champions are promoted to Tribute Cornwall/Devon and the runners-up, play the second team in Tribute Devon 1 over two legs, with the winning team gaining promotion...	9	9	2nd	16	13	0	3	339	191	26	Lost play off for promotion		>- ! 2002-03	Cornwall 1 Cornwall League 1 Tribute Cornwall 1 is an English level nine Rugby Union league for clubs based in Cornwall. The Champions are promoted to Tribute Cornwall/Devon and the runners-up, play the second team in Tribute Devon 1 over two legs, with the winning team gaining promotion...	9	9	2nd	16	13	0	3	596	189	26	Promoted	Cornwall Clubs Cup SF	>- ! 2003-04	Cornwall & Devon Tribute Cornwall/Devon Tribute Cornwall/Devon League is an English level eight Rugby Union league for clubs mainly based in Cornwall and Devon. The Champions and runners-up are promoted to Tribute Western Counties West...	8	12	1st	22	20	0	2	861	173	40	Promoted		>- ! 2004–05	Western Counties (West) Tribute Western Counties West English Rugby Union South West Division - Tribute Western Counties West is an English Rugby Union League.- Teams 2009/10 :*Camborne*Tiverton*Devonport Services*Penryn*Bude*Kingsbridge*Minehead Barbarians*Newquay Hornets*North Petherton*Okehampton...	7	12	1st	22	19	2	1	1027	252	40	Promoted		>-	2005-06	South West 2 (West)	6	12	1st	22	21	0	1	1023	343	42	Promoted
2006-07	South West 1	5	12	1st	22	17	1	4	734	368	35	Promoted
2007-08	National League 3 (South) National League 2 South National League 2 South, known before September 2009 as National Division Three South, is a league at level 4 in the English rugby union system. The league is one of two leagues at this level, with its counterpart covering the north of England...	4	14	1st	26	23	0	3	772	337	107	Promoted	Winners Cornwall Super Cup
2008-09	National League 2 National League 1 National League 1, , is the third level of domestic rugby union competition in England.This is the lowest level of the English rugby union league system which is nationwide...	3	14	13th	26	6	0	20	399	844	29	2 pts deducted

National Cup Honours

• 2003/04 Semi-Finalists in the Powergen Junior Vase
• 2006/07 Winners of the EDF Energy Intermediate Cup

2006/07 Season

At season end Mounts Bay have had another very successful year. Mounts Bay are promoted to the National Leagues after finishing as champions of Southwest 1 with three games to play. The team has also reached two finals, the Cornwall County Cup where they played Redruth

Redruth

Redruth is a town and civil parish traditionally in the Penwith Hundred in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It has a population of 12,352. Redruth lies approximately at the junction of the A393 and A3047 roads, on the route of the old London to Land's End trunk road , and is approximately west of...

 two leagues higher than Mounts Bay. Bay losing this one, on Sunday 15 April, Bay made their first visit to Twickenham

Twickenham Stadium

Twickenham Stadium is a stadium located in Twickenham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is the largest rugby union stadium in the United Kingdom and has recently been enlarged to seat 82,000...

 in the EDF Energy Intermediate Cup Final against former winners Dunstablians.

Mounts Bay won the match and completed a Cornish Trophy double; they won the game 46-36

Mounts Bay RFC has a very successful supporters club called The Boarding Party.

In August 2007 they signed Cornish

Cornish people

The Cornish are a people associated with Cornwall, a county and Duchy in the south-west of the United Kingdom that is seen in some respects as distinct from England, having more in common with the other Celtic parts of the United Kingdom such as Wales, as well as with other Celtic nations in Europe...

 lock Richard Carroll.

None of the above would have been possible without their President Michael Leah.

2007/08 Season

In their first season in the National Leagues, Mounts Bay Rugby Football Club continues its meteoric rise through the Rugby league structure, finishing in 1st place in National Division Three South Mounts Bay are again promoted, their eighth promotion in nine seasons, and will be playing in National Division Two in the coming 2008/09 season. The club will be strengthening its team for this season, with a number of players joining the side with experience at this and higher levels. The side have new kit suppliers this season, joining with Irish company O'Neills, to make replica kit more widely available the club now have a shop in Penzance town centre. In addition to its league championship Mounts Bay also won the Cornwall Super Cup.

2008/09 Season

Mounts Bay faced their first and only relegation. Debts and few assets left the club in danger facing administration and a very uncertain future. Following their AGM in July 2009, the club folded after the possibility of playing sharing with Redruth RFC had finally broken down.