Chicago Riot Rugby

Great showing from The Riot (and friends) up in Wisconsin yesterday at Lion Hunter 7’s! We made it to the finals of the men’s tournament bracket for a great start to our summer 7’s campaign.

We go again next weekend in Kenosha at Harborfest 7’s. Practice on Tuesday and Thursday at Smith Park this week.

Thanks to for hosting a great tournament!

All players are welcome to learn the dark arts of scrums and line outs with The Chicago Riot this summer!

Off-season training tonight!! Curious about rugby? Come learn a thing or two from 7-9 pm at Smith Park!

These sessions provide great opportunity for all players to sharpen their attacking skills as we turn our eyes to this Fall’s CARFU campaign. Come get a run in!

‼️‼️We’re thrilled to congratulate three of our Riot men for earning spots on Men’s Senior Select Side for this weekend’s Thunderbird Cup tournament at the Chicago Blaze’s facility in Lemont! ✊❌🦅‼️

The two-day tournament brings together the top men’s, women’s and under-23 club rugby players from eight regional unions spanning from Western New York to the Dakotas for a weekend of elite competition. We know that these three will do our club and union proud this weekend and use their experiences to help The Riot next season!

Our club’s representatives are:
Jacob “Artie” Aitchison, Fly Half,
Brendan Heffernan, Tighthead Prop,
Malav Shah, Back Row,

The CARFU Men’s first game will be at 3 p.m. Saturday May 30 against the Minnesota Selects.

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Huge shoutout to one of our dedicated community sponsors: The Movers LLC!!

If you need help with your next move, call The Movers LLC at 312-675-4763 and they’ll treat you like family. When you do business with them, you’re directly supporting Riot Rugby, and a terrific local business.

Thank you again for your sponsorship!!

The Riot is traveling north this weekend to play at Brown Deer Park in Milwaukee!

We’re excited for another challenging day of rugby against one of the Great Lakes’ top clubs.

Thank you again to Harrison Playgrounds for their dedicated sponsorship this season.

That’s four wins in a row for your Chicago Riot to start the spring!

Despite an uneven performance marred by three braindead yellow cards, The Riot put enough points on the board to get past a hard-running side on Saturday. The Pigs traveled light to the city, so quite a few Riot men pulled on their colors for the afternoon and put in some big shifts. Good luck in Wisconsin this season and we’ll see you again soon!

Our Man of the Match was Will Brady for the second week in a row for refusing to stay out of the try zone for longer than a commercial break.

We’re back at Smith this weekend for our final home game of the spring season against a stout side.

We’re kicking off a bit later than normal, but Saturday’s forecast projects a perfect afternoon for midwestern rugby.

Hope to see you there for our last chance at defending our home pitch until the fall.

Thank you again to Harrison Playgrounds for sponsoring us this season!

What a day for Riot Rugby!

We’re holding onto The Garbo Cup for another year after a great game with yesterday. We want to thank Cleveland for traveling here, giving us such a competitive game and for hitting Division Street with us Saturday night. See you guys next year!

Our second side fell to a strong team yesterday. Thank you to Fox Valley for coming through!

Our Men of the Match were Will Brady for the Rovers game after he ran wild all afternoon and Ben Gardner for the Fox Valley game for the on-field leadership and big hits he brought throughout that game after coming off the bench in the first match.

Huge Saturday incoming for our home opener!

We’re excited to welcome back to Chicago this weekend for the third edition of The Garbo Cup. We kept the traveling trophy by the narrowest of margins last year, and we’re ready to put it back on the line on our home turf.

We’ll also welcome back into city limits for a second match at Smith Park. A social at The Continental will follow that second match.

What could be better than all that??

Thank you again to Harrison Playgrounds for sponsoring The Chicago Riot.