Rugby Club Valencia (also known as Tecnidex Valencia) is a Spanish
rugby
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Sport
* Rugby football in many forms:
** Rugby league: 13 players per side
*** Masters Rugby League
*** Mod league
*** Rugby league nines
*** Rugby league sevens
*** Touch (sport)
*** Wheelchair rugby league
** Rugby union: 1 ...
team. The club competes in Group East of
División de Honor B.
History
The club was established in May 1966 by a group of young players who wanted to see a team from the city of Valencia playing in the national leagues. There were problems securing a field, and the club played on a football field in
Picanya
Picanya () is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Horta Oest in the Valencian Community, Spain.
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and sometimes on the river banks by the teachers' training college in the early years. They acquired their own ground, the Campo de La Pechina (Field of The Pendant), the very first rugby ground in the city.
The following season a youth team was started, which won the regional championship.
The senior team reached the national leagues in 1973/1974 for the first time, and was promoted to the
División de Honor in the 1976/1977 season, winning the title in 1982/1983.
In 1990 the club gained their primary sponsor, Tecnidex, a company providing chemicals and disinfectants for agricultural purposes.
Honours
*
División de Honor: 1
**1983
*
División de Honor B: 3
**1976, 1993, 2002
*Valencian Regional Championship: 5
**1968, 1970, 1972, 1974, 2012
Season by season
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*22 seasons in
División de Honor
External links
Official websiteTecnidex
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Rugby union teams in Spain
Rugby clubs established in 1966
Sport in Valencia
Sports teams in the Valencian Community