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For the rugby league football competition in Sydney, Australia formerly called the Metropolitan Cup, see Bundaberg Red Cup.
The Metropolitan Cup is a rugby union competition for junior clubs in Dublin, Ireland
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History
In the season 1921-22, the Leinster Branch established a knockout competition for teams then competing in the Junior League. The “knockout” competition is confined for the teams competing in the Junior League, which also includes a “Senior” Club’s 2nd XV team. The Branch presented the trophy - called the Metropolitan Cup which reflect the fact that all the participating teams are based in the Dublin metropolitan area .
To season 2006-07 there have been 86 finals played, with 14 different winning clubs. Of the 14 winners only two Junior clubs have won the competition Suttonians RFC (now a senior club) in 1946-47 and Seapoint RFC, who won in back to back seasons 2004-05 & 2005-06 and also in season 2007-08. The remainder are second XV's of Senior clubs.
Winners
The list of winners so far of the cup according to the Leinster Rugby official website is:
1920s
- 1922 University College Dublin beat Blackrock College
- 1923 Dublin University
- 1924 Wanderers
- 1925 University College Dublin
- 1926 Bective Rangers
- 1927 Lansdowne
- 1928 Dublin University
- 1929 Blackrock College
1930s
- 1930 Bective Rangers
- 1931 Bective Rangers
- 1932 University College Dublin
- 1933 University College Dublin
- 1934 Dublin University
- 1935 University College Dublin
- 1936 Old Belvedere
- 1937 Old Belvedere
- 1938 Blackrock College
- 1939 Bective Rangers
1940s
- 1940 St. Mary's College
- 1941 St. Mary's College
- 1942 University College Dublin
- 1943 Clontarf
- 1944 Bective Rangers
- 1945 Old Belvedere
- 1946 Old Belvedere
- 1947 Suttonians
- 1948 Lansdowne
- 1949 Terenure College
1950s
- 1950 Terenure College
- 1951 Clontarf
- 1952 Old Belvedere
- 1953 St. Mary's College
- 1954 Wanderers
- 1955 University College Dublin
- 1956 Old Belvedere beat Terenure College
- 1957 University College Dublin
- 1958 Bective Rangers
- 1959 Lansdowne beat Terenure College
1960s
- 1960 Terenure College
- 1961 Bective Rangers
- 1962 Blackrock College
- 1963 University College Dublin
- 1964 University College Dublin
- 1965 Lansdowne
- 1966 University College Dublin
- 1967 Dublin University
- 1968 Lansdowne
- 1969 University College Dublin
1970s
- 1970 St. Mary's College
- 1971 St. Mary's College
- 1972 University College Dublin
- 1973 Clontarf
- 1974 University College Dublin
- 1975 Blackrock College
- 1976 Blackrock College
- 1977 Blackrock College
- 1978 St. Mary's College beat Old Wesley
- 1979 Terenure College
1980s
- 1980 Bective Rangers
- 1981 Lansdowne beat Old Wesley
- 1982 Lansdowne beat Palmerston
- 1983 Lansdowne beat Palmerston
- 1984 Blackrock College
- 1985 St. Mary's College beat Wanderers
- 1986 Wanderers beat Dublin University
- 1987 Wanderers beat University College Dublin
- 1988 Terenure College
- 1989 Lansdowne
1990s
- 1990 Old Wesley
- 1991 Old Wesley
- 1992 Wanderers
- 1993 Old Wesley
- 1994 Bective Rangers
- 1995 St. Mary's College
- 1996 Greystones RFC
- 1997 Terenure College
- 1998 St. Mary's College
- 1999 Terenure College beat Blackrock College
2010s
- 2000 Lansdowne beat Blackrock College
- 2001 Blackrock College beat Clontarf
- 2002 Clontarf beat Terenure College
- 2003 Lansdowne beat St. Mary's College
- 2004 Old Belvedere beat St. Mary's College
- 2005 Seapoint beat Monkstown
- 2006 Seapoint beat Lansdowne
- 2007 Lansdowne beat Clontarf
- 2008 Seapoint beat Lansdowne by 19 -10
- 2009 Lansdowne beat Monkstown
2010s
- 2010 Landsdowne beat Garda 20-0
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