Glasgow Warriors

Glasgow Warriors
Full name	Glasgow Warriors
Founded	1999
Stadion	Scotstoun Stadium
Places	9,700
president	Charles Shaw
Trainer	Dave Rennie
Homepage	www.glasgowwarriors.org
league	Pro14
2018/19	1st place conference A, runner-up
home	Away

The Glasgow Warriors are a rugby union team from the Scottish city of Glasgow , which plays in the international Pro14 championship and through this can qualify for the European Rugby Champions Cup . The home games have been played in the Scotstoun Stadium since summer 2012 .

history

The team was founded in 1997 under the name Glasgow Rugby by the Scottish Rugby Union (SRU) in order to send a competitive team to the Heineken Cup . Due to the financially strained situation, the SRU decided on rationalization measures and two years later merged the team with the Caledonia Reds, which now operated under the name Glasgow Caledonians. From 2001 the team took part in the newly founded Celtic League (today Pro14). It reached the semi-finals in its first season, but could not build on this success in the next few years. At the start of the 2002/03 season, the team's name was changed back to Glasgow Rugby. Another renaming to today's name Glasgow Warriors took place at the beginning of the 2005/06 season.

In the 2009/10, 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons, the Warriors reached third place in the championship. They played at Firhill Stadium until the summer of 2012 . They moved to Scotstoun Stadium , where the training base had previously been. In the 2013/14 season, the Warriors were the first Scottish team in the Pro14 final, but were subject to the Irish team Leinster Rugby . The following year you could win the championship for the first time.