Rugby Association of Saxony

Rugby Association of Saxony
Founded	1990
president	Uwe Scheithauer
address	Drosselhang 2 04316 Leipzig
Cup winners men	ATSV Freiberg
Parent association	German Rugby Association
region
Clubs (approx.)	7 *
Members (approx.)	approx. 450 * * as of September 2014
Homepage	www.sachsen-rugby.de

The Rugby Association of Saxony eV ( RVS for short ) is the umbrella organization for all rugby union clubs and their individual members in Saxony . The non-profit association is based in Leipzig . It is one of the 13 regional associations of the German Rugby Association (DRV) and a member of the State Sports Association of Saxony, where it has the status of a regional professional association.

RVS was founded in 1990 in Leipzig. Since 2014, it has hosted the highest regional rugby union cup competition, the Saxony 7-Cup. As a regional rugby association, the RVS organizes the national selections of the Saxon rugby union clubs. The goals of the association are primarily the promotion of rugby sport and the next generation as well as the organization of regular games and competitions in Saxony. Every year the association organizes training courses to acquire a trainer and / or referee license.

history

Until 1990 - before the association was founded

Rugby in Saxony goes back to the 1950s. The stronghold in Leipzig was home to several clubs. The university sports group of the German University of Physical Culture ( HSG DHfK Leipzig ), the company sports associations Lokomotive Wahren Leipzig and Gastronom Leipzig and the Army Sports Club Leipzig were four teams that formed during this time. DHfK was the most successful team. The team won five championships and twice the DRSV cup between 1954 and 1963 and has been the record champions of the GDR in the meantime. The forerunner club of RC Leipzig, the BSG Lokomotive Wahren Leipzig, was also one of the most successful clubs in the GDR with four championship titles and one cup victory. Lok had a successful period in the late 1970s when it broke BSG Stahl Hennigsdorf's dominance and won four East German championships in a row. After the rugby departments of the German University of Physical Culture and the army sports clubs were dissolved, there were two rugby departments of the once four teams in the 1980s. These were the locomotive and the restaurateur.

1990 to 2000 - the founding years

The Rugby Association of Saxony was founded in 1990. With German reunification, the two rugby departments of the company sports associations were temporarily transferred back to the HSG DHfK Leipzig. In September 1994 the rugby players joined TSV 1893 Leipzig-Wahren, where they again founded their own department. The rugby players stayed with TSV for the next ten years until they founded RC Leipzig in the Lützschena-Stahmeln district in September 2004.

2000 until today - boom in Saxony

In 2000 the rugby club was founded in Dresden, which today is one of the largest Saxon rugby clubs alongside Leipzig. In the same year he joined the association. In 2005 a rugby working group was founded at the grammar school in Freiberg and a rugby department of a club was founded in Zittau.

At the beginning of 2006, the rugby working group in Freiberg became a division of a club, as most rugby players had left school. The two new clubs from Freiberg and Zittau are invited to a meeting of the RL game commission of the DRV in Jena to sound out what would be possible and possible with both clubs in the 15 area. At the same time it is evident that many clubs in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia are too weak in members to play 15-a-side rugby. The Saxon Sevens held this year in Dresden shows that there is a rugby scene in Saxony and Central Germany that is too small for a 15-year-old, but is just right for having fun and socializing (rugby spirit). As a result, an “anarchic rugby league” was launched in the second half of 2006, where people meet at different places to play Rugby 7 together; The cohesion among the individual clubs grows and a network of friends is created.

In 2011 the rugby department of SV Stahl Brandis decided to become a member of the Rugby Association of Saxony. But many small clubs have also been founded recently. The clubs Freiberg, Chemnitz, Brandis and Zittau regularly take part in the Central German 7th league. The Rugby Association of Saxony is facing many challenges today. With the announcement of the inclusion of 7-a-side rugby in the Olympic program, new avenues have opened up that give the association new opportunities.

A league reform took place in 2012, which expanded the national leagues to 48 clubs. The clubs Dresden and Leipzig were promoted to the Bundesliga. On the German Rugby Day 2012, the Rugby Association of Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia spoke out in favor of restructuring the German Rugby Association. It was suggested to set up a committee that should give the association a new structure with statutes and regulations. In the same year, for the first time in history, the association began planning a list of men's national teams. The best players could be gathered through sightings and coaching talks. With the support of the Landessportbund Sachsen, the association was able to participate in a federal state comparison in 2013 with its selection.

The Saxony 7-Cup was held for the first time in 2014. Four teams accepted the challenge and took on the task of the Sachsencup. The team of the host SV Stahl Brandis, the Tower Rugby from Chemnitz, the RC Dresden and the team from Freiberg fought their way through the games in the mode everyone against everyone. After 3 wins in 3 games, the pitcher's coach Freiberg received the winner's challenge cup from the hands of the chairman of the Rugby Association of Saxony and they will now host the next 7-a-side rugby Sachsen Cup on their home ground next year.

In August 2014, the Rugby Association of Saxony conducted a four-day training camp with sighting under the guidance of the young coaches Falk Müller (Leipzig), Lars Wochatz (Leipzig) and Martin Wittig (Brandis). The event was conceived as a mixture of training camp and sighting. Participants from three clubs (RC Leipzig, Rugby Club Leipzig Scorpions and SV Stahl Brandis) took part in the event. In the end, the strengths and weaknesses could be shown. With the results obtained, it was now possible to compare the performance of the young Saxon players with those of the U16 national players.

On September 5, 2014, the seventh member club, the rugby club Leipzig Scorpions, was accepted into the association.

organization

The two most important organs of the Rugby Association Saxony are the general assembly and the board.

Board

Chair of the RVS

Surname	Origin association	Term of office
Uwe Scheithauer	RC Dresden	since 2011
Anne Wesemann	RC Dresden	2009 to 2011
Jürgen Weber	RC Leipzig	until 2009

Deputy Chair of the RVS

Surname	Origin association	Term of office
Jens Koehler	Leipzig Scorpions	since 2011

The board is elected by the general assembly for two years and is responsible for the management of the association.

• 1st Chairman: Uwe Scheithauer (Dresden)
• 2nd chairman: Jens Köhler (Leipzig Scorpions)
• Treasurer: Manja Müller (Leipzig Scorpions)

Members

Members of the association are rugby clubs or rugby divisions of sports clubs. Membership of the clubs is acquired through admission. The same applies to associations and departments. A written application for membership, which may not be sent electronically, must be sent to the office. The general assembly decides on the admission by resolution. Membership begins with the passing of a resolution. The member receives a written confirmation of admission. There is no entitlement to admission.

The prerequisites for membership are recognition of the charitable status due to the promotion of sport in the sense of the section "tax-privileged purposes" of the tax code and membership in a district sports association, city sports association, community sports association or city sports association.

RC Leipzig RV Leipzig Scorpions RV Dresden SV Horken Kittlitz SV Stahl Brandis USG Chemnitz ATSV Freiberg

Rugby clubs in Saxony

society	Postcode	city	source
Rugby Club Leipzig eV	04159	Leipzig	www.leipzig-rugby.de
Rugby club Leipzig Scorpions eV	04347	Leipzig	www.scorpions-rugby.de
Rugby Cricket Dresden eV	01067	Dresden	www.dresdenrugby.de
SV Horken Kittlitz eV	02708	Kittlitz	www.svhorkenkittlitz / rugby
SV Stahl Brandis eV	04821	Brandis	www.rugby-brandis.de
USG Chemnitz eV	09126	Chemnitz	www.rugby-chemnitz.jimdo.com
ATSV Grubenhunte Freiberg eV	09599	Freiberg	www.grubenhunte.de

financing

The Rugby Association of Saxony is financed almost exclusively through membership fees from the clubs. In addition, measures are supported by funding from the state sports association or by donations / sponsors.

Superordinate associations

• International Rugby Board (IRB), the world association of rugby union
• Fédération Internationale de Rugby Amateur Association Européenne de Rugby (FIRA-AER), the European continental federation for rugby union
• Deutscher Rugby-Verband (DRV), the top German rugby union

Game operation

Regional gaming operations

Saxony 7th Cup

The Sachsen 7er-Pokal has been a rugby union cup competition for Saxon club teams that has been held since 2014. It is held annually by the Rugby Association of Saxony and is the most important Saxon rugby title. The winner of the Sachsen 7er-Pokal will be determined by a tournament. The tournament is organized and directed by a game director appointed by the regional association. The rules of the Central German 7th League apply. Deviations can be announced by the board. The first title holder is the rugby department of the ATSV Freiberg.

year	Saxony 7th champion
2014	ATSV Freiberg

Nationwide gaming operations

Clubs in 15-a-side leagues

step	designation	number	societies
1	Bundesliga	1	RC Leipzig
2	2nd Bundesliga	1	RC Dresden
3	Regionalliga Northeast	2	RC Leipzig II, RC Dresden II

step	designation	number	societies
1	Championship round	0	-
2	DRV Cup	1	RC Leipzig
3	League Cup	1	RC Dresden

Clubs in 7-leagues

designation	number	societies
Central German 7th championship in rugby	6th	RC Leipzig, RC Dresden, USG Chemnitz, SV Brandis, SV Horken Kittlitz, ATSV Freiberg

Country selections

The Rugby Association of Saxony started planning in 2012 for the creation of a state selection in the men's 7s category. This team took part in the national association selections in 2013. This is the first time in many years that the association has taken part in a federal state comparison. From 2014 the formation of a women's team of 7 is planned.

Successes and Results

Association's successes

measure	13
Men - National Association Championship 7th	7th

Successes of Saxon clubs

The most successful association in Saxony since the association was founded in 1990 is RC Leipzig. In the Olympic 7 variant as well as in the classic 15 rugby, he has recently been able to show successes. Other Saxon clubs take part in the Mitteldeutsche 7er-Liga, but mostly failed to win a title.

German junior champion

Youngsters U14 RC Leipzig: (1) 2004

Central German 7th league

• RC Leipzig: (1) 2010
• ATSV Freiberg : (1) 2013

Northeast 7th League

RC Leipzig: (1) 2012

Saxony 7th Cup

• ATSV Freiberg: (1) 2014

Web links

• www.sachsen-rugby.de Official website of the association
• www.facebook.com/sachsen.rugby Facebook fan page of the association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Rugby at TSV 1893 Leipzig-Wahren TSV 1893 Leipzig-Wahren website, accessed April 15, 2010.
2. ↑ Mitteldeutscher 7er-Liga: Who we are wirsindrugby7.de, accessed: September 15, 2014
3. ↑ League reform: DRV publishes advance game plans sachsen-rugby.de, accessed: July 23, 2012
4. ↑ Crystal clear - we are all rugby! sachsen-rugby.de, accessed: July 10, 2012
5. ↑ Landessportbund Sachsen supports Saxon participation in the Berlin Sevens Totalrugby.de , accessed: July 3, 2013
6. ↑ Grubenhunte's first cup winner in the Sachsencup in 7-a-side rugby sachsen-rugby.de, accessed: August 20, 2014
7. ↑ Rugby talent under the microscope . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , 16./17. August 2014. Retrieved August 19, 2014.