Sharjah Wanderers Club

Shortly after the construction of Sharjah Port and Sharjah Sewage Works started, in 1976 a group of Halcrow and Tarmac engineers, who played for the Dubai Exiles but who were living and working in Sharjah, got together and asked the Ruler, Sheikh Sultan, if we could be allocated land for a rugby pitch. HH was very obliging and gave a plot of land a long way out of town which was ideal. It was a flat sabkah area for the pitch overlooked by a high sand dune for the spectators. The downside was it could only be reached by 4X4 vehicles. (Now with the population growth it is almost in the middle of the city)