The Castilla y León Iberians is a professional Spanish rugby union team based in the

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region. They compete annually in the

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Estadio Pepe Rojo Estadio Pepe Rojo is a sports stadium located in the city of Valladolid, Spain. It is the home ground of CR El Salvador and Valladolid RAC leading clubs of the División de Honor, the top-level of Spanish rugby. The stadium is named after José ...

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History

The franchise was founded in 2021 as the Spanish representative in the

. The Castilla y Leon Iberians is made up of the clubs from the

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Rugby División de Honor, thus bringing together VRAC,

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, and the University of Burgos (UBU) teams. The Rugby Europe Super Cup competition features 8 teams or franchises in two groups or "conferences", which is played in a Round Robin format. At the end of the two rounds, the two best teams from each conference participated in the final phase. During 2021 the Western Conference included the Brussels Devils of

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, the Delta of the

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, the Lusitanos of

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, and the Castilla y Leon Iberians. The Iberians qualified for the semi-finals, losing to the Black Lion 43-40 at

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. The Rugby Europe Super Cup 2022 saw the Iberians in the semi-finals losing again to

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41-9.

Home Ground

Estadio Pepe Rojo is located in the city of

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. It is also the home ground of

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and

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. The sports complex consists of five rugby fields (Field no.1 - main field; Field no.2; field no.3 - 'track and field'; field no.4 and field no. 5, - 'artificial grass' ), of which the no. 1 y no. 2 are used regularly for first-grade official competition. peperojo

The No. 1 field, which is the main field of the complex, has a roofed grandstand with seats at the west end, as well as a unroofed stand at the east end, with also a small stand at the north end, with the west stand being refurbished and expanded and the south end was built in 2016 (the stadium records big attendances when both teams play the local derby or a championship final). With this refurbishment it was possible to expand the capacity of Pepe Rojo to 1.150 seats, thus, reaching the amount of 6.000 seats in the No.1 field.

2021-22 squad

* Senior 15s internationally capped players are listed in bold.

External links

Official website

References

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History

Home Ground

2021-22 squad

See also

External links

References