Alpine Rugby Championship

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Alpine Rugby Championship

Current season 2014/15
sport Rugby union
abbreviation ARC
Association Austrian Rugby Association (ÖRV)
Slovenian Rugby Association (RZS)
League foundation 2014
Teams 20th
Country countries AustriaAustria Austria 13 teams Slovenia 4 teams Slovakia 1 team Czech Republic 1 team Croatia 1 team
SloveniaSlovenia 
SlovakiaSlovakia 
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
CroatiaCroatia 
Title holder RK Ljubljana
Record champions RU Danube Vienna (9)
Website http://www.rugby-austria.at [1]
↑ Alpine Rugby Championship 1st League (ARC 1)
↓ Alpine Rugby Championship 2nd division (ARC 2)

The Alpine Rugby Championship (ARC) is an international amateur league in rugby union . 16 clubs from five national associations with a total of 20 teams in 4 leagues take part. It is the successor to the Austrian Bundesliga or the National League and the other substructure. The leagues are divided into three performance levels with regulated promotion and relegation between the first and second leagues. In addition, the ARC organizes and manages the Austrian club games in the men's 7s rugby, as well as the Austrian rugby cup. The ARC is not responsible for the Austrian women's, junior and school rugby, as well as the national teams.

Motives for the foundation of the ARC

Both the Austrian and the Slovenian club rugby faced the common problem of a small number of clubs with a high performance gap. When the Slovenian clubs were accepted into Austrian gaming operations, the focus was on establishing divisions with more clubs of comparable skill level. The Austrian (ÖRV) and the Slovenian Rugby Association (RZS) are the sponsors of the ARC. The clubs from the other countries take part in the ARC for different reasons, each with the approval of the national association.

history

Transnational club or franchise leagues have been the rule rather than the exception in European rugby for decades. In Central and Southeastern Europe there were two forerunners in the 1990s with the Alpine League (1993–1996), which had teams from Austria, Slovenia and Croatia, and the Austro-Moravia League (1997–1999) with teams from Austria and the Czech Republic. Years.

After the turn of the millennium there were and are other international rugby leagues in Central Europe such as in the Balkans, but it wasn't until 2011 that a Slovenian club, Bežigrad Ljubljana, took part in the Austrian Bundesliga again. In the same season, RK Maribor entered the second Bundesliga. The two teams were followed in 2012 by Olimpija Ljubljana (SLO) & the Black Eagles Brixen (South Tyrol) in the 2nd Bundesliga and RK Ljubljana in the Bundesliga. From the 2012/13 season at the latest, the national Austrian league was a de facto international competition in which the most important club teams in Slovenia took part. The question therefore arose whether the league names oriented towards Austria still made sense.

The ÖRV (Austrian Rugby Association) decided in 2013/14 to decouple its league system with the exception of the Lower Austrian regional league and the Vienna league from its primary field of activity. For the first time, the working name "Alpine Rugby Championship" was also used, a name that was only officially used in the 2014/15 season.

During this season, the now ARC also took over the Lower Austrian regional league, which it incorporated as the "Regionalliga Nord". The ARC expanded with a Czech (RC Břeclav) and a Slovak (Spartak Trnava) club. Already during the last season Brixen got out of the league. The Croatian club RK Lokomotiva Zagreb was accepted into the second level.

League system

The ARC comprises four leagues in three performance levels: the ARC 1st League (ARC 1st League) as the highest performance level, the ARC 2nd League (ARC 2nd League) as the second highest and the two-track regional league (Regionalliga Nord / Regionalliga Süd) as the substructure.

ARC 1st league

Six teams will take part in the ARC 1st league in the 2014/15 season and is the successor league of the former rugby Bundesliga. You play the ARC champion in a round trip. The last placed in the ARC 1st league is relegated to the 2nd league. At the end of the season, the two best-placed Austrian teams of ARC 1 play the Austrian state championship title in a single final.

Participant ARC 1st League 2014/15

  1. RK Ljubljana Slovenia (league winner 2013/14)SloveniaSlovenia 
  2. RU Danube Vienna Austria (State Champion)AustriaAustria 
  3. RC Innsbruck AustriaAustriaAustria 
  4. Stade Rugby AustriaAustriaAustria 
  5. Vienna Celtic RUFC AustriaAustriaAustria 
  6. RAK Olimpija Ljubljana Slovenia (promoted)SloveniaSlovenia 

ARC 2nd division

7 teams take part in the ARC 2nd league. It is geared towards 8 teams. In a round-trip round, you play the ARC champions of the 2nd division, who are promoted to the 1st division (compulsory promotion), unless it is the second team of an ARC 1 club respective regional league, if both regional league champions are eligible and willing to be promoted.

Participant ARC 2nd league 2014/15

  1. RC Graz AustriaAustriaAustria 
  2. Wombats RC AustriaAustriaAustria 
  3. RC Linz AustriaAustriaAustria 
  4. RU Danube Vienna Corsairs AustriaAustriaAustria 
  5. RK Maribor SloveniaSloveniaSlovenia 
  6. RC Tigers Austria (promoted)AustriaAustria 
  7. RK Lokomotiva Zagreb CroatiaCroatiaCroatia 

ARC regional leagues

The 3rd performance level is handled in two tracks (ARC Regionalliga North & South). For both of these leagues, the implementation rules have been tightened to promote the development of the teams concerned. The master has the right of promotion if the clubs meet the stricter regulations of ARC 2 and if it is not a second team that is already playing in ARC 2.

ARC Regionalliga North (RLN)

3 teams take part in the ARC Regionalliga Nord, it is the successor league of the Lower Austrian Regional League. RC Melk and the second team of RC Linz withdrew their nominations for the 2014/15 season. Spartak Trnava was added. In a round-trip round you play the regional league champions North, who is eligible for promotion to the ARC 2nd league under certain conditions (see ARC regional leagues).

Participant ARC Regionalliga Nord 2014/15

  1. RC Břeclav Czech RepublicCzech RepublicCzech Republic 
  2. RC Krems AustriaAustriaAustria 
  3. RK Spartak Trnava SlovakiaSlovakiaSlovakia 

ARC Regionalliga Süd (RLS)

4 teams take part in the ARC Regionalliga Süd. New in the 2014/15 season are the 2nd teams from RK Ljubljana and Celtic Vienna (Celtic Wanderers). The second team of the RC Graz will start playing again. Here, too, the champion is determined in a round-trip round.

Participant ARC Regionalliga Süd 2014/15

  1. Celtic Wanderers AustriaAustriaAustria 
  2. ARC Leoben AustriaAustriaAustria 
  3. RC Graz II AustriaAustriaAustria 
  4. RK Ljubljana II SloveniaSloveniaSlovenia 

7s rugby

7s Challenge Cup

The ARC organizes the 7s-Challenge-Cup (7s-CC). “It was founded in 2002 and is held as a series of invitation tournaments. The tournament points are awarded based on the daily placements. The current overall table determines the winner of the Challenge Cup at the end of the rugby year. ” So the short self-description on the ÖRV page. The number of tournaments counting towards the CC varies from season to season, mostly 4-6. The mode of the individual game day is incumbent on the organizer, slight modifications of the official rules (e.g. the possibility of exchanging returns) are permitted and customary. If an Austrian club, the winner of the 7s-CC in the 7s-ÖM is set as the group head. The 7s Challenge Cup was not held between 2007/08 and 2009/10. During the period, the ÖM was played as a tournament series. The reintroduction took place in 2010/11, its loose implementation regulations proved to be more advantageous than the strict competition rules in a year-round championship, and foreign clubs could also be invited again.

7s state championships

The ARC monitors the implementation of the annual state championship in men's 7s rugby (7s ÖM). In principle, the ruling national champion can host next year's ÖM, but he can also do without it. Every club registered with the ÖRV is entitled to participate; B-teams are prohibited in contrast to the Challenge Cup. The rules of the World Rugby Federation (formerly IRB) are also binding for the ÖM . Since the first event in 2008, either the RU Donau Wien or the RC Graz have always been state champions.

7s state championship 2014

The ÖM 2014 ended with a novelty on June 28th in Graz, which was held as a round-robin tournament with 6 starters . After everything was evenly balanced between Graz and RU Donau Wien after five games despite the 5-stage (1st point, 2nd point in a direct duel, 3rd point difference, 4th number of attempts, 5th fair play) investigation, a penalty shootout decided about the ÖM 2014. Graz decided that for itself.

The Austrian rugby cup

The rugby cup is a competition that will premiere in the 2014/15 season. Every club registered with the ÖRV is allowed to take part, B-teams and non-Austrian clubs are excluded. The cup competition is carried out as a knockout system without setting and is drawn from round to round.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from December 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from November 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ http://www.rugby-austria.at/herren/regionale-bewerbe/regionalliga-nord/
  5. ↑ http://www.rugby-austria.at/herren/regionale-bewerbe/regionalliga-sued/
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ http://www.rugby-austria.at/herren/news-herren/detail/rc-graz-gewinnt-sevens-staatsmeisterschaftsfinale/