VANDALS smashed bottles and wrote graffiti over the clubhouse at Maidenhead Rugby Club in an attack labelled ‘appalling’ by the team’s chief executive.
The intruders, believed to have struck on Friday night, smashed bottles, graffitied the clubhouse and broke off advertising boards at the site off Braywick Road.
Simon Edwards, chief executive and coach at the club, said it will cost thousands of pounds to repair the damage which includes a broken beer storage area and scooter marks on the pitch.
The club will also have to rake the pitch in case glass has got into it.
Mr Edwards said: “It is just appalling. It is a sports club, not a business, and they are wasting our money.
“What are they getting out of it?
“Every single window of the clubhouse has been graffitied, 20 or 30 empty beer bottles smashed in the grandstand and three to four advertising boards wrecked. But the police do not seem to want to know.”
Mr Edwards said vandals had targeted the grounds out of season several times before.
He added: “At the moment the place is dead because it is summer and we are not playing rugby.
“We cannot patrol it, it is impossible for us. “
Police were alerted after a member of the public reported glass strewn across the car park at 7.30am on Saturday.
Spokeswoman Anamika Madar said the police informed the Royal Borough Council about the broken glass in the car park but they not investigating the incident.
Information has been passed onto the local beat officer who will take further action.