Reviewed 13 Aug 2026

Deventer, Netherlands

D.R.C. The Pickwick Players

Also shown as The Pickwick Players, Pickwick Players

D.R.C. The Pickwick Players is a Deventer rugby club based at Sportpark Keizerslanden. Its separately typed men's first team is connected to the 2025/26 Tweede Klasse Noord Plate.

Official Pickwick Players website

A story worth knowing

Pickwick's green and black came from The Pigs' unclaimed shirts

The dossier records that Pickwick inherited its colours from a batch of shirts ordered by The Pigs and never collected.

A practical accident in another club's kit order became Pickwick's visual identity.

Source 1 Source 2

Club essentials

Practical details checked against club and rugby sources.

Training

Seniors (men and women) train Wednesday and Friday evenings, 20:00-21:30, at Sportpark Keizerslanden; youth train twice a week at age-group times

Source

First sessions

Six weeks of free training as a trial member; no membership needed to attend a first session, just report to the coach

Source

Club and team identity

Teams the club has fielded

Each team below is a side the club entered in a named season. Teams stay separate participant identities; they never become duplicate club profiles.

Pickwick Players 1

first team · men · fifteens

2025/26 · 2e Klasse Heren Noord — 2e fase Plate · completed seasonMen’s lower leagues

Ground and affiliation

Governing body: Rugby Nederland
Federation directory: Rugby Nederland club directory

Known limits and corrections

Unknown: No exact foundedOn value is projected because the reviewed sources establish 1975 but do not support the federation directory's 1 January placeholder as an exact date.
Unknown: Current participation for the club's other teams and separately researched Pickwick Ladies side is not projected here.

Source trail · 6 sources

The official records this profile was checked against, with the date each was checked.

D.R.C. The Pickwick Players
Canonical Pickwick parent-club destination, Deventer locality and Sportpark Keizerslanden visitor address. Checked 13 Aug 2026.
D.R.C. The Pickwick Players
Official Pickwick Players website destination. Checked 13 Aug 2026.
Rugby Nederland
Official Rugby Nederland directory identity, colours and Deventer visitor locality for D.R.C. The Pickwick Players. Checked 13 Aug 2026.
Rugby Nederland competition platform
Pickwick Players 1 participation in the 2025/26 Tweede Klasse Heren Noord second-phase Plate. Checked 13 Aug 2026.
Rugby Nederland
Exact public governing-body URL for Rugby Nederland; this destination does not independently establish competition format, season participation, native-data access, or reuse permission. Checked 12 Aug 2026.
Rugby Nederland
Published 2025/26 lower-league family, phase, fixture and result destinations. Checked 10 Aug 2026.

Reviewed 13 Aug 2026

Deventer, Netherlands

D.R.C. The Pickwick Players

Also shown as The Pickwick Players, Pickwick Players

D.R.C. The Pickwick Players is a Deventer rugby club based at Sportpark Keizerslanden. Its separately typed men's first team is connected to the 2025/26 Tweede Klasse Noord Plate.

Official Pickwick Players website

A story worth knowing

Pickwick's green and black came from The Pigs' unclaimed shirts

The dossier records that Pickwick inherited its colours from a batch of shirts ordered by The Pigs and never collected.

A practical accident in another club's kit order became Pickwick's visual identity.

Source 1 Source 2

Club essentials

Practical details checked against club and rugby sources.

Training

Seniors (men and women) train Wednesday and Friday evenings, 20:00-21:30, at Sportpark Keizerslanden; youth train twice a week at age-group times

Source

First sessions

Six weeks of free training as a trial member; no membership needed to attend a first session, just report to the coach

Source

Club and team identity

Teams the club has fielded

Each team below is a side the club entered in a named season. Teams stay separate participant identities; they never become duplicate club profiles.

Pickwick Players 1

first team · men · fifteens

2025/26 · 2e Klasse Heren Noord — 2e fase Plate · completed seasonMen’s lower leagues

Ground and affiliation

Governing body: Rugby Nederland
Federation directory: Rugby Nederland club directory

Known limits and corrections

Unknown: No exact foundedOn value is projected because the reviewed sources establish 1975 but do not support the federation directory's 1 January placeholder as an exact date.
Unknown: Current participation for the club's other teams and separately researched Pickwick Ladies side is not projected here.

Source trail · 6 sources

The official records this profile was checked against, with the date each was checked.

D.R.C. The Pickwick Players
Canonical Pickwick parent-club destination, Deventer locality and Sportpark Keizerslanden visitor address. Checked 13 Aug 2026.
D.R.C. The Pickwick Players
Official Pickwick Players website destination. Checked 13 Aug 2026.
Rugby Nederland
Official Rugby Nederland directory identity, colours and Deventer visitor locality for D.R.C. The Pickwick Players. Checked 13 Aug 2026.
Rugby Nederland competition platform
Pickwick Players 1 participation in the 2025/26 Tweede Klasse Heren Noord second-phase Plate. Checked 13 Aug 2026.
Rugby Nederland
Exact public governing-body URL for Rugby Nederland; this destination does not independently establish competition format, season participation, native-data access, or reuse permission. Checked 12 Aug 2026.
Rugby Nederland
Published 2025/26 lower-league family, phase, fixture and result destinations. Checked 10 Aug 2026.

Reviewed 13 Aug 2026

Deventer, Netherlands

D.R.C. The Pickwick Players

Also shown as The Pickwick Players, Pickwick Players

D.R.C. The Pickwick Players is a Deventer rugby club based at Sportpark Keizerslanden. Its separately typed men's first team is connected to the 2025/26 Tweede Klasse Noord Plate.

Official Pickwick Players website

A story worth knowing

Pickwick's green and black came from The Pigs' unclaimed shirts

The dossier records that Pickwick inherited its colours from a batch of shirts ordered by The Pigs and never collected.

A practical accident in another club's kit order became Pickwick's visual identity.

Source 1 Source 2

Club essentials

Practical details checked against club and rugby sources.

Training

Seniors (men and women) train Wednesday and Friday evenings, 20:00-21:30, at Sportpark Keizerslanden; youth train twice a week at age-group times

Source

First sessions

Six weeks of free training as a trial member; no membership needed to attend a first session, just report to the coach

Source

Club and team identity

Teams the club has fielded

Each team below is a side the club entered in a named season. Teams stay separate participant identities; they never become duplicate club profiles.

Pickwick Players 1

first team · men · fifteens

2025/26 · 2e Klasse Heren Noord — 2e fase Plate · completed seasonMen’s lower leagues

Ground and affiliation

Governing body: Rugby Nederland
Federation directory: Rugby Nederland club directory

Known limits and corrections

Unknown: No exact foundedOn value is projected because the reviewed sources establish 1975 but do not support the federation directory's 1 January placeholder as an exact date.
Unknown: Current participation for the club's other teams and separately researched Pickwick Ladies side is not projected here.

Source trail · 6 sources

The official records this profile was checked against, with the date each was checked.

D.R.C. The Pickwick Players
Canonical Pickwick parent-club destination, Deventer locality and Sportpark Keizerslanden visitor address. Checked 13 Aug 2026.
D.R.C. The Pickwick Players
Official Pickwick Players website destination. Checked 13 Aug 2026.
Rugby Nederland
Official Rugby Nederland directory identity, colours and Deventer visitor locality for D.R.C. The Pickwick Players. Checked 13 Aug 2026.
Rugby Nederland competition platform
Pickwick Players 1 participation in the 2025/26 Tweede Klasse Heren Noord second-phase Plate. Checked 13 Aug 2026.
Rugby Nederland
Exact public governing-body URL for Rugby Nederland; this destination does not independently establish competition format, season participation, native-data access, or reuse permission. Checked 12 Aug 2026.
Rugby Nederland
Published 2025/26 lower-league family, phase, fixture and result destinations. Checked 10 Aug 2026.

Reviewed 13 Aug 2026

Deventer, Netherlands

D.R.C. The Pickwick Players

Also shown as The Pickwick Players, Pickwick Players

D.R.C. The Pickwick Players is a Deventer rugby club based at Sportpark Keizerslanden. Its separately typed men's first team is connected to the 2025/26 Tweede Klasse Noord Plate.

Official Pickwick Players website

A story worth knowing

Pickwick's green and black came from The Pigs' unclaimed shirts

The dossier records that Pickwick inherited its colours from a batch of shirts ordered by The Pigs and never collected.

A practical accident in another club's kit order became Pickwick's visual identity.

Source 1 Source 2

Club essentials

Practical details checked against club and rugby sources.

Training

Seniors (men and women) train Wednesday and Friday evenings, 20:00-21:30, at Sportpark Keizerslanden; youth train twice a week at age-group times

Source

First sessions

Six weeks of free training as a trial member; no membership needed to attend a first session, just report to the coach

Source

Club and team identity

Teams the club has fielded

Each team below is a side the club entered in a named season. Teams stay separate participant identities; they never become duplicate club profiles.

Pickwick Players 1

first team · men · fifteens

2025/26 · 2e Klasse Heren Noord — 2e fase Plate · completed seasonMen’s lower leagues

Ground and affiliation

Governing body: Rugby Nederland
Federation directory: Rugby Nederland club directory

Known limits and corrections

Unknown: No exact foundedOn value is projected because the reviewed sources establish 1975 but do not support the federation directory's 1 January placeholder as an exact date.
Unknown: Current participation for the club's other teams and separately researched Pickwick Ladies side is not projected here.

Source trail · 6 sources

The official records this profile was checked against, with the date each was checked.

D.R.C. The Pickwick Players
Canonical Pickwick parent-club destination, Deventer locality and Sportpark Keizerslanden visitor address. Checked 13 Aug 2026.
D.R.C. The Pickwick Players
Official Pickwick Players website destination. Checked 13 Aug 2026.
Rugby Nederland
Official Rugby Nederland directory identity, colours and Deventer visitor locality for D.R.C. The Pickwick Players. Checked 13 Aug 2026.
Rugby Nederland competition platform
Pickwick Players 1 participation in the 2025/26 Tweede Klasse Heren Noord second-phase Plate. Checked 13 Aug 2026.
Rugby Nederland
Exact public governing-body URL for Rugby Nederland; this destination does not independently establish competition format, season participation, native-data access, or reuse permission. Checked 12 Aug 2026.
Rugby Nederland
Published 2025/26 lower-league family, phase, fixture and result destinations. Checked 10 Aug 2026.