The origin of the present Rugby Section of the Impala Club dates back to 1930 when an old boy of the Prince of Wales School (now Nairobi School), Gregory Comninos, started raising teams of old boys to play regular mid-week matches against the School. These matches proved to be a very popular and the possibility of starting an official club was put forward. A meeting was held at the Prince of Wales School and the Old Cambrians Club was launched. It was decided at this time that the club would wear the Welsh colours as their kit. The club initially prospered however, shortly after the acquisition of their Ngong Road ground in 1949, the club went through extremely tough times, the low-point being the 1953 season when no rugby was played. A decision was made to re-launch the club under the name Impala RFC, with many of the old players and coaching staff staying on. This led to a return in strength of the club, and in 1959 they enjoyed an unbeaten season (though ironically this powerful team were not allowed to enter the Enterprise Cup competition due to vageries in the then qualification process which required them to have finished in the top three of the previous year's Nairobi District Championship). Impala continued to prosper (winning the Enterprise Cup in 1961 & 1965) and grow to their heights in the early 1970s. They won the Enterprise Cup consecutively for four years from 1971 to 1974 and several seven-a-side tournaments during the same period.

Impala dominated the Kenya Cup and Enterprise cup in the late 90's and won both titles in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003( sharing with Kenya Harlequins and 2005. They finished runners up in 2008 but went on to win Both Kenya Cup and Supremacy cup in 2009 beating Kenya Harlequins in both instances.

They have remained in the top 3 in all 15-Aside tournaments in Kenya since 1997.

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