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División De Honor De Rugby
The División de Honor de Rugby is Spain's top level professional men's rugby union competition. The División de Honor de Rugby Championship is organised by the Federación Española de Rugby (Spanish Rugby Federation) and currently consists of 12 teams. The last-placed team in the competition is relegated at the end of the season to the División de Honor B, Spain`s second level of men's rugby union. The team finishing 11th enters a relegation/promotion playoff with the runner-up from the Division de Honor B playoffs. Format The División de Honor season takes place between September and March, with every team playing each other home and away for a total of 22 matches. Points are awarded according to the following: *4 points for a win *2 points for a draw *1 bonus point is awarded to a team scoring 4 tries or more in a match *1 bonus point is awarded to a team that loses a match by 7 points or fewer The six teams with the highest number of points at the end of 22 rounds of ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rugby Union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is played between two teams of 15 players each, using an oval-shaped ball on a rectangular field called a pitch. The field has H-shaped goalposts at both ends. Rugby union is a popular sport around the world, played by people of all genders, ages and sizes. In 2014, there were more than 6 million people playing worldwide, of whom 2.36 million were registered players. World Rugby, previously called the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) and the International Rugby Board (IRB), has been the governing body for rugby union since 1886, and currently has 101 countries as full members and 18 associate members. In 1845, the first laws were written by students attending Rugby School; other significant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CR El Salvador
Club de Rugby El Salvador, known for sponsorship reasons as SilverStorm El Salvador on the men's category and as Crealia El Salvador on the women's, is a Spanish rugby union club. The club was established in 1960 and currently competes in the men's División de Honor de Rugby and in the women's División de Honor Femenina de Rugby competitions, the highest levels of Spanish club rugby. The club is based in Valladolid in central Spain, playing their matches at the Estadio Pepe Rojo. The club's colours are black and white. El Salvador is one of the most successful Spanish rugby union clubs, having won División de Honor in seven times, Copa del Rey in six times and Supercopa de España in five times. Recent history El Salvador were relegated to the second-tier Primera Division, in 1995/96 season, spending one season in the second-tier Primera División, but immediately returned to the División de Honor after topping the table in the 1996/97 season. That success was followed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CRC Madrid
The Club de Rugby Pozuelo, also known as CRC Pozuelo, is a Spanish rugby union club sited in Pozuelo de Alarcón. The club currently competes in the División de Honor, the top division of Spanish rugby. The senior squad plays its matches at Campo de rugby Gabriel Parellada. History The club was born as the rugby department of Real Canoe Natación Club (one of the oldest swimming clubs of Spain) in 1963.Historia on Real Canoe N.C. website One year after being established, the club won its first title, the (then named "Copa del Generalísimo") after defeating Unión Deportiva Samboyana by 3-0 at Ruiz de Alda stadium. After that achievement, Real Canoe played its first international compe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valladolid RAC
Valladolid Rugby Asociación Club is a Spanish rugby union club. The club was established in 1986 and currently competes in the División de Honor de Rugby competition, the highest level of Spanish club rugby. The club are based in Valladolid in central Spain. VRAC play in blue and white colours. The team have in the past won both the Spanish League and the Copa del Rey de Rugby. They play at Estadio Pepe Rojo. Honours * División de Honor: 10 ** Champions: 1998–99, 2000–01, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20 *Copa del Rey: 5 ** Champions: 1997–98, 2009–10, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2017–18 ** Runners-up: 2012–13 * Supercopa de España: 7 ** Champions: 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 * Copa Ibérica de Rugby: 3 ** Champions: 2014, 2017, 2018 European rugby Valladolid RAC's first foray into Europe was in the 2001–02 European Challenge Cup. Playing in a pool with London Irish (England), Dax (France) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estadi Baldiri Aleu
Estadi Baldiri Aleu is a rugby union stadium in Sant Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona Province, Spain. Its location lies between the Baldi Aleu and Cerdaña streets in Sant Boi de Llobregat. UE Santboiana Unió Esportiva Santboiana is a Spanish rugby union club. The club was established in 1921 and currently competes in the División de Honor de Rugby competition, the highest level of Spanish club rugby. The club are based in Sant Boi de Llobrega ... plays there its home matches in División de Honor. The field is named after Baldiri Aleu Torres, UE Santboiana's first chairman, between 1921 and 1936 The field has capacity for 4000 spectators after its refurbishment in the 2000s. References External linksUE Santboiana official website Rugby union stadiums in Spain Sports venues in Catalonia Sant Boi de Llobregat {{Spain-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estadio Municipal De Altamira
Estadio Municipal de Altamira (Basque: ''Altamira estadioa'') is a sports stadium used for track and field, association football and rugby union, in Ordizia (Gipuzkoa). It is located in the district of Altamira. Facilities Built in 1972 and renovated in 2007, its playing surface is artificial grass and the covered grandstand has 500 seats. The athletics track is homologated for every official competition. Main tenants The stadium is used for the home matches of Ordizia RE since its foundation in 1973, although after playing in other nearby cities such as Hernani, Lazkao and Zarautz, and then at Estadio Fernando Trevijano since 1979, Ordizia returned to Altamira during its promotion to División de Honor de Rugby The División de Honor de Rugby is Spain's top level professional men's rugby union competition. The División de Honor de Rugby Championship is organised by the Federación Española de Rugby (Spanish Rugby Federation) and currently consists of 12 ... in 2009. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ordizia RE
Ordizia Rugby Elkartea is a Spanish rugby union club. The club was established in 1973 and currently competes in the División de Honor de Rugby competition, the highest level of Spanish club rugby. The club is based in the town of Ordizia in the Basque region of Northern Spain. Ordizia play in red and blue colours. Honours * División de Honor B: 1 ** Champions: 2004–05 *Copa del Rey: 2 ** Champions: 2011–12, 2012–13 * Supercopa de España: 0 ** Runners-up: 2012, 2013 Squad 2012–13 International honours * Francisco Puertas Soto * Pedro Martín * Matías Tudela * Julen Goia * Tom Parker Season by season ---- *19 seasons in División de Honor See also * Rugby union in Spain Rugby union is a growing team sport in Spain. As of 2019, there were 37,241 registered rugby union players in Spain, playing for 332 clubs in various divisions. The sport's governing body in Spain, the Spanish Rugby Federation (Spanish: Federaci� . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Socías
Alberto Socías Olmos (born 16 May 1973 in Valencia) is a former Spanish rugby union player and coach. He plays as a centre. He is the younger brother of Antonio Socías, who also was former Spanish international. Career His first international cap was during a match against Italy, on 7 May 1994, at Parma. He was part of the 1999 Rugby World Cup roster, where he played two matches. His last international cap was during a match against Netherlands, on 6 April 2002 at Murcia. Coaching career He coached the Spain national rugby sevens team from 2012 until 2015, when he José Ignacio Inchausti replaced Socías due to criteria differences with the Federacion Espanola de Rugby, FER. Currently, he is the coach of CR Les Abelles. References External links * 1973 births Living people Sportspeople from Valencia Spanish rugby union coaches Spanish rugby union players Rugby union centres Spain international rugby union players 1999 Rugby World Cup players {{Spain-rug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CR Les Abelles
Club de Rugby Les Abelles is a Professional Spanish rugby team based in Valencia, Spain. They play in Spain's top tier of rugby, the División de Honor The club was founded in 1971 by Halangode Noel, a teacher at the Jesuit School of Valencia. Having been inspired by the London Wasps A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder. ..., he tried to transfer the name and spirit to a group of young students. The club's name is the Valencian, not Spanish, translation of Bees, something which would have been rather a controversial thing during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Noel also intended for the club to wear Wasps' distinctive colours, but in the 1970s another Valencian club, Tatami, already wore a similar kit, and so for many years Abelles played in orange. Today, the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mies De Cozada
Mies de Cozada, colloquially called ''San Román'', is a multi-purpose municipal stadium located in the town of San Román de la Llanilla, in the municipality of Santander, Cantabria, Spain. It is an artificial grass field opened in 2010 and holding about 1,500 people. The facilities are used by BathCo Independiente RC for playing rugby in División de Honor and by Rayo Cantabria and Atlético San Román for football practice. See also *Independiente Rugby Club *División de Honor de Rugby *Deportivo Rayo Cantabria Deportivo Rayo Cantabria is a Spanish football team based in Santander, in the autonomous community of Cantabria. Founded in 1993 it last played in Tercera División – Group 3, holding home games at the Campo Municipal Mies de Cozada sports ... References {{Reflist, 2 Rugby union stadiums in Spain Football venues in Cantabria Sports venues completed in 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independiente RC
Independiente Rugby Club is a Spanish amateur rugby union club based in the Cantabrian city of Santander. The club was established in 1971 and competes in División de Honor; the top Spanish league competition for rugby union clubs. Independiente plays its home matches at the Mies de Cozada, a multi-use stadium in San Román de la Llanilla. The team traditionally plays in green and white colours. For several years, the club was known for sponsorship reasons as Bathco Independiente or Bathco, the latter of which is now the name of Club de Rugby Santander. Club honours Independiente is the most successful rugby club in Cantabria. The team has played a number of seasons in the División de Honor (1978––80, 2013–present), two seasons in División de Honor B (2003–04 and 2011–12), 25 seasons in Primera Nacional and 1 season in Segunda Nacional. Spanish tournaments: *Copa del Rey: ** Runners-up: 2013–14 * División de Honor B: 1 ** Champions: 2012-13 (group 1) *Prime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Carlos Bado
Juan Carlos Bado (born Montevideo, 29 December 1973) is a former Uruguayan rugby union player. He played as a lock. He first started with Old Boys until moving to France, where he represented Union Bordeaux Bègles, in 2002/03, Stade Français, from 2003/04 to 2004/05, winning the Pro D2 in 2004/05, US Montauban, from 2005/06 to 2006/07, Oyonnax Rugby, from 2007/08 to 2012/13. He plays for Rugby Club Bassin d'Arcachon since 2013/14. An emblematic player for Uruguay, Bado had 49 caps, with 2 tries scored, 10 points in aggregate, since his first match, a 67-3 win over Paraguay, on 2 October 1993, in Asunción, for the 1995 Rugby World Cup qualifyings, aged 19 years old. Bado played all the three matches at the 1999 Rugby World Cup and all the four matches at the 2003 World Cup for Uruguay, remaining scoreless. After a three years absence, he returned to the National Team for the 2007 Rugby World Cup qualifyings, being sent-off in the 18-12 win over Portugal, at 24 March 2007, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
