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2012–13 División De Honor De Rugby
The 2012–13 División de Honor is the 46th season of the División de Honor de Rugby, top flight of the Spanish domestic rugby union competition since its inception in 1953. Regular season began in September 2012 and finished on April 28, 2013. The playoffs began on 19 May and the Final took place on 2 June. Defending champions, Valladolid RAC, Valladolid, successfully defended its previous season title after defeating Santboiana 27–25 in the championship final. CR La Vila, La Vila was the relegated team to División de Honor B de Rugby, División de Honor B. Competition format The season took place between September and March, with every team playing each other home and away for a total of 22 matches. Points were awarded according to the following: * 4 points for a win * 2 points for a draw * 1 bonus point for a team scoring 4 Try (rugby), tries or more in a match * 1 bonus point for a team that loses a match by 7 points or fewer The six teams with the highest number of poi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valladolid RAC
Valladolid Rugby Asociación Club is a professional 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: 13 (record) ** Champions: 1998–99, 2000–01, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2022–23, 2023–24 *Copa del Rey: 6 ** Champions: 1997–98, 2009–10, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2017–18, 2022–23 *Supercopa de España: 8 (record) ** Champions: 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 * Copa Ibérica de Rugby: 7 (record) ** Champions: 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 European rugby Valladolid RAC's first foray into Europe was in the 2001� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gernika RT
Gernika Rugby Taldea is a Basque rugby team based in Gernika, Bizkaia which play in the Spanish League. The team was set up by some rugby supporters of the unfortunately bombed village, and is enjoying a steady rise in popularity in the region. For the 2012–13 season, Gernika took part in the European Challenge Cup. Despite finishing fifth in the División de Honor in 2011–12 and losing in the playoff semifinals, Gernika were tapped for the Challenge Cup when the sides finishing ahead of them bowed out due to financial constraints. Honours * División de Honor B: 3 ** Champions: 1983–84, 1989–90, 2008–09 *Copa del Rey The , commonly known as , or (in English) the Spanish Cup or King's Cup, and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–1936) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–1976), is an annual knockout football competition in Spanis ...: 0 ** Runners-up: 1991 2012–13 Challenge Cup Gernika RT played in pool 2 of the 2012–13 European ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernani, Spain
Hernani is a town and municipality located in the province of Gipuzkoa, Basque Autonomous Community, Spain. The town sits on the left bank of the Urumea river. It is located at a distance of 9.2 km from San Sebastián. The municipality of Hernani occupies an area of approximately 40 square kilometres and is bordered by San Sebastián, Astigarraga, Arano, Elduayen, Errenteria, Lasarte-Oria and Urnieta. From the town centre, at the foot of Mount Santa Barbara, it is possible to see a large area of the valley of Urumea. Its festivities, held between 23 and 27 June in honour of John the Baptist; and between his celebrations the popular "azeri dantza" (also celebrated in celebrations of Carnival) should be emphasized. The title character of Victor Hugo's play ''Hernani'' is named after the town. History During the Middle Ages, the territory that would form the province of Gipuzkoa was divided in valleys and Hernani was one of them. The valley of Hernani formerly extended th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Getxo
Getxo () (Spanish: ''Guecho'') is a town located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country, in Spain. It is part of Greater Bilbao, and has 75,430 inhabitants (2023). Getxo is mostly an affluent residential area, as well as being the third largest municipality of Biscay. History Getxo (formerly spelt ''Guecho'') was a parish (''elizatea, ''anteiglesia'), originally a rural area, including a large beach at the mouth of the Estuary of Bilbao, centered on the little fishing village of Algorta. The parish council met at the church of ''Getxoko Andra Mari'' (Basque language, Basque) or ''Santa María de Guecho'' (Spanish) (both mean Saint Mary of Getxo), not far from the headland called Punta Galea. The town's coat of arms has an oak with two cauldrons chained to its branches and the motto ''Kaltea Dagianak Bizarra Lepoan'' (Basque language, Basque for "Who makes evil, the beard at the back"). It is a proverb mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Velódromo De Fadura
Velódromo de Fadura is a sports facility dedicated to the practices of cycling and rugby union, which forms part of Getxo Kirolak Fadura, in Getxo (Biscay).The facilities include athletics tracks, football and field hockey fields, pools, covered sports hall, gymnasiums and tennis pitches, which were built in the early 1960s.The side stand covered of the velodrome can house 1,000 seating spectators. Its oval track for bicycles is made of concrete. In the rugby field surrounded by the track, Getxo Rugby Taldea plays its home matches of the 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 .... Its surface is natural grass. References External links * {{coord, 43.3517, -3.0008, type:landmark_region:ES, display=title Rugby union stadiums in Spai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Getxo Artea RT
Getxo Rugby Taldea is a Spanish rugby union club. The club currently competes in the División de Honor B de Rugby competition, the 2nd level of Spanish club rugby. The club are based in the province of Biscay Biscay ( ; ; ), is a province of the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Autonomous Community, heir of the ancient Lordship of Biscay, lying on the south shore of the Bay of Biscay, eponymous bay. The capital and largest city is Bilb ..., in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain. Getxo play in yellow and black Honours Male team * Spanish championship ** Champions: 1993 * Spanish King's cup ** Champions: 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1997 ** Runners-up: 1993, 1995 and 2005 Female team * European Female Clubs' Cup ** Runners-up: 2009 * Spanish Queen's cup ** Champions: 2001 and 2008 ** Runners-up: 2004 Season by season ---- *32 seasons in División de Honor Squad 2012–13 See also * Rugby union in Spain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valladolid
Valladolid ( ; ) is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality in Spain and the primary seat of government and ''de facto'' capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile and León. It is also the capital of the province of Valladolid. It has a population of 300,618 people (2024 est.). The city is located roughly in the centre of the northern half of the Iberian Peninsula's Meseta Central, at the confluence of the Pisuerga River, Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers before they join the Duero, surrounded by winegrowing areas. The area was settled in pre-Roman times by the Celtic Vaccaei people, and then by Ancient Rome, Romans themselves. The settlement was purportedly founded after 1072, growing in prominence within the context of the Crown of Castile, being endowed with fairs and different institutions such as a collegiate church, University of Valladolid, University (1241), Court (royal), Royal Court and Royal Audiencia and Chancillería of Valladolid, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Rojo Giralda, the president of the Valladolid Rugby Federation in the 1960s. Facilities 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 competitions (División de Honor, División de Honor B, Copa del Rey...). Two of the most important rugby clubs of Valladolid play at the field: CR El Salvador and Valladolid RAC. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CR El Salvador
Club de Rugby El Salvador 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. The women team, known as Colina Clinic El Salvador for sponsorship purposes, competes on the Liga Iberdrola. 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 the side's win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrid
Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits, second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its wikt:monocentric, monocentric Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area is the List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, second-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the Manzanares (river), River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula at about above mean sea level. The capital city of both Spain and the surrounding Community of Madrid, autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estadio Nacional Complutense
The Estadio Nacional Complutense (or Complutense National Stadium in English) is a rugby union stadium in the Spanish capital Madrid and located on the main campus of the Complutense University of Madrid. The stadium is commonly used by the Spanish national rugby union team who competes in the European Nations Cup. It is also home to Olympus Rugby XV Madrid, CD Arquitectura and CR Cisneros. History The plans for the construction of the University City (), and thus also of rugby stadium, began on 17 May 1927, when the then King Alfonso XIII awarded the construction contract. The official architects of the venue were Luis Lacasa Navarro, Javier Barroso and the famous Civil engineer Eduardo Torroja. The opening ceremony of the sports facilities and the stadium was on 12 October 1943, on the Spanish national holiday. Originally, the stadium was built for university sports, but in 1954 the Spanish national rugby union team used the stadium for a home match against Portugal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seville
Seville ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Spain, Spanish autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the Guadalquivir, River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Seville has a municipal population of about 701,000 , and a Seville metropolitan area, metropolitan population of about 1.5 million, making it the largest city in Andalusia and the List of metropolitan areas in Spain, fourth-largest city in Spain. Its old town, with an area of , contains a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising three buildings: the Alcázar of Seville, Alcázar palace complex, the Seville Cathedral, Cathedral and the General Archive of the Indies. The Seville harbour, located about from the Atlantic Ocean, is the only river port in Spain. The capital of Andalusia features hot temperatures in the summer, with daily maximums routinely above in July and August. Seville was founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
