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Founded shortly before the depression years, the Papatoetoe Rugby Club played (in black jerseys with a white diamond) for just a season or two. The game stirred again in the late 1930s, but it was in 1946 that the club began its more solid history. George Nickle, Harold Osman, who played in the original 1920s team, a member of the Burnside family and Bill Joynt, who was associated with the 1930s version of Papatoetoe rugby, were involved. Soon Papatoetoe was competing in the red and white hoops we see them wear today. The club made the large Kingswood Road playing fields their own.

In 1995 coached by Eddie Clark and under the leadership of Kevin Cowper, Papatoetoe won the Jubilee Trophy. 2011 and 2012 saw much success for the club, reaching the semi-finals for the Gallagher Cup in 2011, retaining the Sir Fred Allen Challenge and in 2012 reaching the final of the Jubilee Trophy. The club is now one of the many sports clubs affiliated with the $11million Papatoetoe Sports Centre, which opened in 2011.

Papatoetoe Rugby Club has produced New Zealand, Samoan and Tongan reps. These include Charlie Faumuina, Steve Fualau, Ben Masoe, Faatiga Lemalu and Tevita Mailau.