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2012–13 Rugby-Bundesliga
The 2012–13 Rugby-Bundesliga was the 42nd edition of this competition and the 93rd edition of the German rugby union championship. In the Rugby-Bundesliga, twenty-two teams played in, initially, four regional divisions, the first stage of the competition. The season started on 25 August 2012 and finished with the championship final on 15 June 2013, interrupted by a winter break from 25 November to 3 March.Rugby Spielpläne - 2012/2013 www.rugbyweb.de, accessed: 16 September 2012 The regular season finished on Wednesday 1 May and the play-offs started on the following weekend, 4 May, and the German championship final was held on 15 June 2013. The defending champions were who d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidelberger RK
The Heidelberger Ruderklub (Heidelberger RK or HRK for short) is a German rowing club and rugby union club from Heidelberg, currently playing in the Rugby-Bundesliga. The club is one of only two professional rugby clubs in Germany, the other being SC 1880 Frankfurt. The turn to professionalism in a sport otherwise fully amateur in Germany was made possible through the support of ans-Peter Wild who owns a soft drink manufacturing business. Heidelberger RK was to become the first German club to take part in either of the two major European rugby union competitions after they qualified for the 2018-19 European Rugby Challenge Cup via winning their semi-final against Timișoara Saracens in the 2017-18 European Rugby Continental Shield. European Professional Club Rugby announced that Heidelberger would be excluded as they were under the ownership of Wild, who was simultaneously the owner of another Challenge Cup side, Stade Francais. Following the decision, Wild announced he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TSV Handschuhsheim
The TSV Handschuhsheim is a German rugby union club from Heidelberg, currently playing in the Rugby-Bundesliga. Apart from rugby, the club also offers other sports like association football, handball and tennis. History The club was formed in 1886 in Handschuhsheim, a suburb of Heidelberg, one of the centres of German rugby. For most of its existence, it has stood in the shadow of the other, more successful rugby clubs in town, the SC Neuenheim, Heidelberger RK and RG Heidelberg. ''TSV'' had a breakthrough in 1953, when it reached the German championship final for the first time. It played in three more finals in the next four years, winning its sole championship in 1957. Three more final appearances followed in the 1960s. With the establishment of the Rugby-Bundesliga in 1971, success dropped off for the team and after one more finals appearance in 1978 a long drought followed. After a 27-year title-wait, ''TSV'' took out the German Cup in 2005 but lost the championship fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rugby-Regionalliga
The Rugby Regionalliga is the third-highest level of Germany's Rugby union league system, organised by the German Rugby Federation. It is set below the 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga and is organised in eight regional divisions. Since 2010, the ''Regionalliga'' is only the fourth level of play in Southern Germany, since the inception of the 3rd Liga South/West, which covers the same states as the 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga South/West above it except Bavaria. History The Regionalligas form the third tier of German rugby union since the inception of the 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga in the early 1990s. Before that, the league was the second tier, below the Rugby-Bundesliga. Below the Regionalliga sits the Rugby-Verbandsliga, however, in some regions, the Regionalliga is the lowest division and no Verbandsliga exists. The six leagues cover the following states: * Regionalliga North ** Bremen ** Hamburg ** Lower Saxony ''(northern parts)'' ** Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ** Schleswig-Holstein * Regionalliga Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DRC Hannover
The DRC Hannover is a German rugby union club from Hannover, currently playing in the Rugby-Regionalliga. The club should not be confused with the ''DRC 1884 Hannover'', a rowing club and a separate entity. History The club was formed in 1905 in the Hannover suburb of Ricklingen. The club did not really make an impact on the German rugby scene for the first 80 years of its history, facing strong opposition within Hannover, one of the two centres of German rugby. A German rugby union cup finals appearance in 1981 was the first time it reached a national final. In 1988, after beating local rival DSV 1878 Hannover 12-9 in the final, the club took out its first national championship. After this, it did not appear in a final again for another ten years. The ''DRC's'' great era begun in 1997, when it started to dominate the Bundesliga. The club managed to reach every championship final from 1998 to 2005, winning six out of the eight. The 2001-02 season was the only one ever played we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd Rugby-Bundesliga
The 2. Rugby-Bundesliga is the second-highest level of Germany's Rugby union league system, organised by the German Rugby Federation. Its set below the Rugby-Bundesliga, the top-tier of German rugby, and above the Rugby-Regionalliga, the third tier. The league was undergoing a major revamp for the 2012-13 season with the number of clubs expanded from 20 to 24 and the league divided into four regional divisions of six teams each. Above the 2nd Bundesliga the Bundesliga was organised in a similar fashion. History The Second Bundesligas were formed after the German reunion in the early 1990s, originally as four regional leagues, North, East, West and South. Later, the four leagues were merged to form two leagues, South/West and North/East. By 2017 the league structure had been again divided into four groups. Since 2002, the two champions of the leagues play a 2nd Bundesliga championship final which also determines the clubs promoted to the Bundesliga. The bottom clubs in the leag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin Grizzlies
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constituent states, Berlin is surrounded by the State of Brandenburg and contiguous with Potsdam, Brandenburg's capital. Berlin's urban area, which has a population of around 4.5 million, is the second most populous urban area in Germany after the Ruhr. The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Rhine-Main regions. Berlin straddles the banks of the Spree, which flows into the Havel (a tributary of the Elbe) in the western borough of Spandau. Among the city's main topographical features are the many lakes in the western and southeastern boroughs formed by the Spree, Havel and Dahme, the largest of which is Lake Müggelsee. Due to its location ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RC Leipzig
The RC Leipzig is a German rugby union club from Leipzig, currently playing in the Rugby-Bundesliga, the top tier of German rugby. The club, formed in 2004, traces its history back to the early 1950s, when a number of successful rugby clubs were formed in Leipzig in what was then East Germany. Between them, these predecessor clubs have won nine East German rugby union championship.Rugby beim TSV 1893 Leipzig-Wahren TSV 1893 Leipzig-Wahren website, accessed: 15 April 2010 History Rugby in Leipzig dates back to the 1950s, when a number of rugby departments were founded in local sport clubs. ''BSG Lok Leipzig-Wahren'', '''', ''BSG Gastronom Leipzig'' and th ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USV Potsdam Rugby
The USV Potsdam Rugby is a German rugby union club from Potsdam, currently playing in the Rugby-Bundesliga. It is part of a larger multi-sport club, the USV Potsdam, which also offers other sports like basketball, association football and tennis and consists of 19 departments. History USV Potsdam The club was formed on 11 March 1949 as SG Landeshochschule Potsdam in what was soon to become East Germany. It was later renamed to HSG PH Potsdam.USV Potsdam website - History , accessed: 6 April 2010 In 1990, with the imminent dissolution of East Germany, it became the HSG BLH Potsdam, to adopt its current name, USV Potsdam, in July 1991, reflecting its close ties with the |
ASV Köln Rugby
The following meanings of the abbreviation ASV are known to Wikipedia: * Adaptive servo-ventilation, a treatment for sleep apnea * Air-to-Surface Vessel radar (also "anti-surface vessel"), aircraft-mounted radars used to find ships and submarines * American Society for Virology * American Standard Version, a translation of the Bible released in 1901 * Amplicon sequence variant, a term used to refer to individual DNA sequences recovered from a high-throughput marker gene analysis * Anodic stripping voltammetry, a voltammetric method for quantitative determination of specific ionic species * Armeesportvereinigung Vorwärts, a former East Germany military sports club * M1117 Armored Security Vehicle, an armored fighting vehicle produced by Textron * Asociación de Scouts de Venezuela, the Scouts Association of Venezuela * Astronomical Society of Victoria, Australia * ASV Records, a UK record label * Autonomous Surface Vehicle * Vatican Secret Archives , seal = Seal of the Vatican ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RC Aachen
The RC Aachen is a German rugby union club from Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, currently playing in the 2e klasse, the 3 tier of Dutch Rugby after being promoted mid-seasob due to good results. From 2012 till 2015 Aachen played in Rugby-Bundesliga. History The club was formed in 1980 and has made occasional appearances in the 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga South/West, the second tier of the German league system, playing at this level in 2000–01, 2006–07 and again in 2011–12. In between the club played in the tier three Rugby-Regionalliga North Rhine-Westphalia until becoming a founding member of the 3rd Liga South/West in 2010. The team finished the 2011–12 season on a relegation rank in the 2nd Bundesliga but, courtesy to an expansion of the Rugby-Bundesliga from ten to 24 teams, was instead promoted to the first tier of German rugby, the Bundesliga. RCA finished sixth in their group in the 2012–13 season and failed to qualify for the championship round, instead entering the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RC Mainz
The RC Mainz is a German rugby union club from Mainz, currently playing in the Rugby-Bundesliga. History Rugby in Mainz dates back to 1997, when a rugby department was formed in the ''1. FC Vorwärts Orient Mainz''. Two years later, in 1999, this rugby department formed the current RC Mainz.Rugby in Mainz RCM website, accessed: 8 April 2010 The club competed at the third tier of German club rugby at the time, the . Oddly, it took part in two of the Regionalligas local divisions, and |
