RC Luxembourg

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RC Luxembourg
Full name Rugby Club de Luxembourg
Founded 1973
Stadion Stade Boy cones
Places
president Paolo Tarakdjan
Trainer Alex van Zeeland, James Kent, William Browne
Homepage www.rcl.lu
league Rugby Bundesliga
2017/18 1st place (2nd Bundesliga West)
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The Rugby Club de Luxembourg ( German Rugby Club Luxembourg , RCL for short) is a rugby union club based in Zessingen, Luxembourg . Since Luxembourg does not have its own rugby union league, the RCL plays in the leagues of its neighboring countries; currently in the German rugby Bundesliga , having previously played in the Belgian and French leagues.

The RCL has grown rapidly in recent years and now has over 500 members. The club, based in the Stade Boy Konen in Zessingen, plans to expand to two or three places in order to reduce the excessive use of Boy Konen. The club is considered to be the leading club in Luxembourg that never lost the Luxembourg Cup and remains the main source for players on the Luxembourg national rugby team .

history

RC Luxembourg was founded in May 1973 by a group of British expatriates and was the first Luxembourg rugby club. The club then and now consisted of a mixture of nationalities, cultures, beliefs and languages: Belgian, French, English, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, Australian, South African, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Dutch, Italian, Fijian, Norwegian, Luxembourgish , American, New Zealand, Venezuela, and Argentine. In September 1973, the club played its first competitive game against the US Castillionnaise. Until 1995, the club played in the Regionalliga Alsace - Lorraine and won the Alsace-Lorraine Cup in 1994. That year, the team joined the Belgian second division, which it belonged to until 1998 when it was promoted to the first division.

In 2001, the club decided to return to the French league and played again as a regional league in Alsace-Lorraine. He won his division in 2008, but decided to join the German league system in 2009 after being invited to play in Germany.

The inclusion of the RCL in the promotion round in 2009 to the 2nd Bundesliga sparked discussions about the legality, as the club had not qualified through the German league system and was not a member of one of the German state associations. However, the application from RC Luxembourg was declared valid under the rules of the German Rugby Federation . The team finished second in the promotion round and thus achieved participation in the second Bundesliga in the 2009/10 season.

In the past, the club has recruited several local athletes from other sports, including Stéphane Gillet , former goalkeeper for the Luxembourg national team , in the third row . Prince Sébastien played for the club's U-20 team and Grand Duke Henri visited the club to watch his youngest son play.

A league reform in 2012 made it possible to switch to the Bundesliga after the league was expanded from ten to 24 teams. The RC Luxembourg was fifth in its group in the 2012/13 season and could not qualify for the championship round, but went into the DRV Cup, but finally withdrew from the competition in October 2012. The club's reserve team continued to play in Germany and took part in the regional league. The team started in the third division in 2013/14 and won its division and the competition with a final victory over TGS Hausen and thus rose to the second rugby league.

In the 2014/15 season the club took first place in the qualifying round of the 2nd Rugby Bundesliga West and third place in the DRV-Pokal Group South / West and was in the quarterfinals of the playoffs after a win in the first round defeated the Veltener RC from RC Leipzig . The club won the 2nd Bundesliga West in 2015/16 and secured promotion to the rugby Bundesliga after winning play-offs against the StuSta Munich and the Munich RFC .

In the 2016/17 season , RC Luxemburg finished last in the Bundesliga and was relegated back to the 2nd division. He won the 2nd Bundesliga West again in 2017/18 and prevailed in the promotion playoffs against RC Rottweil and the StuSta Munich.

Placements in the German league

The last seasons of the club:

season league position
2009/10 2. Rugby Bundesliga South / West 3.
2010/11 2. Rugby Bundesliga South / West 2.
2011/12 2. Rugby Bundesliga South / West 3.
2012/13 Rugby Bundesliga South 5.
DRV Cup South / West -
2013/14 3rd League South-West West 1.
2014/15 2nd Bundesliga West 1.
DRV Cup South / West 3.
2015/16 2nd Bundesliga West 1.
2016/17 1st Bundesliga South / West 8th.
2017/18 2nd Bundesliga West 1.
2018/19 1st Bundesliga South / West

successes

  • Alsace-Lorraine Cup 1994
  • Champion 2nd Bundesliga West: 2014/15, 2015/16, 2017/18

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RCL website , accessed January 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ Karlsruhe and Luxembourg move up to the 2nd South League In: Total Rugby, July 5, 2009, accessed on January 12, 2019.
  3. ↑ Rugby's unstoppable rise in Luxembourg In: Luxemburger Wort , June 29, 2011, archived from the original ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on April 26, 2012, accessed January 12, 2019. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wort.lu
  4. ↑ Royalty muck in at sevens tournament In: Luxemburger Wort , June 27, 2011, archived from the original ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on April 26, 2012, accessed January 12, 2019. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wort.lu
  5. ↑ DRV-Pokal: Luxemburg withdraws In: Total Rugby, October 18, 2012, accessed on January 12, 2019.
  6. ↑ RugbyWeb results archive rugbyweb.de, accessed on January 12, 2019