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RC Leipzig 
Full name Rugby Club Leipzig e.V. Union German Rugby Federation Founded 2004 Location Leipzig, Germany Chairman Torsten Spangenberg Coach(es) Falk Müller League(s) Rugby-Regionalliga East (III) 2010–11 10th Official website www.leipzig-rugby.de/ The RC Leipzig is a German rugby union club from Leipzig, currently playing in the Rugby-Regionalliga East, the third tier of German rugby.
The club, formed in 2004, traces its history back to the early 1950s, when a number of successful rugby clubs were formed in Leipzig in what was then East Germany. Between them, these predecessor clubs have won nine East German rugby union championship.[1][2]
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History
Rugby in Leipzig dates back to the 1950s, when a number of rugby departments were founded in local sport clubs. BSG Lok Leipzig-Wahren, DHfK Leipzig, BSG Gastronom Leipzig and the army club ASK Leipzig were four such teams formed over time, reaching a peak in numbers in the 1960s.[1]
DHfK was the most successful of the teams, winning five championships between 1954 and 1963, followed by Lok with four. By the 1980s, only two rugby departments had survived in Leipzig, those of Lok and Gastronom.[1] Lok had a successful spell in the late 1970s, when it managed to break the dominance of BSG Stahl Hennigsdorf and won three East German championships in a row.
With the German reunion, the two departments merged in the early 1990s and became part of the HSG DHfK Leipzig. In September 1994, the rugby players then joined the re-formed TSV 1893 Leipzig-Wahren, where they formed their own department.[1]
The rugby players stayed at TSV for the next ten years, until September 2004, when the RC Leipzig was founded in the suburb of Stahmeln. Some players did however stay for a further year playing touch rugby, afterwards making a successful move to the club SG LVB in Leipzig-Connewitz.[1]
Rugby in the city continues to develop with both touch and fifteen-a-side teams reaching new levels of popularity. In recent seasons RC Leipzig have rebuilt their squad around the Under-18 side which won the national championship in 2007. Their current squad contains several former age-grade national team members as well as several players with high-level rugby experience in foreign countries. The club has solidified its position in the Regionalliga East and has outlined plans to attain 2.Bundesliga status within five years. The Touch Rugby team at SG LVB continues to play social touch all year round on a casual basis and during the summer months takes part in tournaments around Germany.
Club honours
- East German rugby union championship
- Champions:
- DHfK Leipzig: (5) 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1963
- BSG Lokomotive Wahren Leipzig: (4) 1964, 1978–80
- Champions:
Recent seasons
SG LVB Leipzig
TSV Leipzig-Wahren
Year Division Position 2003-04 Rugby-Regionalliga East (South) (III) 3rd Placings round 2 3rd — Relegated RC Leipzig
Year Division Position 2004-05 Rugby-Regionalliga East B (IV) 3rd Placings round 2 1st — Promoted 2005-06 Rugby-Regionalliga East A (III) 8th Placings round 2 2nd — Relegated 2006–07 Rugby-Regionalliga East B (IV) 3rd Placings round 1 2nd — Promoted 2007–08 Rugby-Regionalliga East A (III) 7th 2008–09 Rugby-Regionalliga East A 6th 2009–10 Rugby-Regionalliga East 10th — Relegated Rugby-Regionalliga East B (IV) 4th 2010–11 Rugby-Regionalliga East 10th - Since 2004, the Regionalliga East has been divided into an A and a B group, with the A group being the third tier of German rugby and B the fourth. Until 2007, the two leagues would play a separate autumn round, followed by a promotion/relegation round in spring, where teams would play accoridng to their autumn placing. Where two placings are shown, the first is autumn, the second spring.
References
- ^ a b c d e Rugby beim TSV 1893 Leipzig-Wahren (German) TSV 1893 Leipzig-Wahren website, accessed: 15 April 2010
- ^ Die Rugby Geschichte Leipzig (German) Saxony Rugby Federation website - History of rugby in Leipzig, accessed: 15 April 2010
External links
- (German) SG LVB Rugby
- (German) Official website
- (German) RC Leipzig club info at totalrugby.de
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