Los Tarcos Rugby Club, is a

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 m ...

team from

San Miguel de Tucumán San Miguel de Tucumán (; usually called simply Tucumán) is the capital and largest city of Tucumán Province, located in northern Argentina from Buenos Aires. It is the fifth-largest city of Argentina after Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Rosario an ...

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. The rugby union team is member of the

Unión de Rugby de Tucumán The Tucuman Rugby Union ( es, Unión de Rugby de Tucumán) or URT is the organisational body that controls the game of rugby union in the province of Tucumán Province, Tucumán, Argentina. History Rugby was first played in Tucumán in 1915, whe ...

and one of the most successful teams in the province, having won the provincial title 12 times and having reached the final of the

Nacional de Clubes The Torneo Nacional de Clubes is a club rugby union competition in Argentina, organised by the Argentine Rugby Union (UAR). The Nacional de Clubes is the main club competition in Argentine rugby, being contested by a total of 16 teams, 8 from Bue ...

once. Many Tarcos players went on to represent

at international level, including Luis Molina, Marcelo Ricci, Pablo and Fernando Buabse, Sergio Bunader and Leonardo Gravano. L.T.R.C 2004 M-12 2016

History

Los Tarcos Rugby Club was founded on 4 January 1955, and used public parks for the first years of its existence. The club had to wait until 1986 to get their own installations.

Titles

Torneo del Noroeste The Torneo Regional del NOA (NorOeste Argentino – Argentine North-West), also known as Torneo del Noroeste, is a regional rugby union competition in Argentina. Originally, only clubs from the Tucumán RU took part. In successive editions the c ...

(14): 1966, 1967, 1969, 1975, 1976, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1994, 2004, 2016, 2018

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