Rugby Club Rottweil
| Rugby Club Rottweil | |||
| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Rugby Club Rottweil | ||
| Seat | Rottweil | ||
| founding | 1970 | ||
| Colours | black yellow | ||
| president | Karl-Heinz Bahr | ||
| Website | www.rcrottweil.de | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Gustavo Lopez | ||
| Venue | Rugby pitch at the outdoor pool | ||
| Places | 1000 | ||
| league | 2nd League South | ||
| 2014/2015 | 2nd place (as of April 16, 2018) | ||
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The Rugby Club Rottweil is a German rugby union club and was founded in 1970.
history
With the founding of a rugby club at the Rottweiler Leibniz Gymnasium at the beginning of 1969 by the multiple national rugby player Günter Thiel, the history of rugby, which was still completely unknown in Rottweil , began. The “new sport” was so popular not only at the Leibniz Gymnasium that the Rugby Club Rottweil (RCR) was founded in 1970. In the youth work there were already great successes in the first few years. The C-students reached the finals for the German championship as South German champions in 1973 and 1975. In 1975 the B-students from Rottweil were able to fight for the German runner-up.
Game operation
In the first regional league season 1971/72, the RCR and its young team managed the big surprise and immediately became champions in the Regional League South. After the regional league championship was reached again in the following season, the "black and yellow" dared the adventure of the Bundesliga. However, the team was still too inexperienced to survive in the Bundesliga and was relegated a year later. After the third regional league championship in 1975, he was immediately promoted back to the Bundesliga. The RCR'ler got down after only one season due to the great financial burden of the long trips to the away games. After the Rottweiler were again champions of the regional league in the following three seasons, they rose to the top division for the third time in 1979. The following six years were the most successful for the RCR and its first team. The consistent, sometimes not always easy, youth work has now paid off. The "black and yellow" were able to qualify for the finals of the German championship in 1981 (2nd place in the Bundesliga South), 1982 (3rd place in the Bundesliga South) and 1985 (4th place in the Bundesliga South). The Rottweilers could never prevail in the respective quarter-finals against their opponents from Hanover.
In 1986 the RCR had to descend again. In 1989 the Rottweiler made their last promotion to the 1st Bundesliga. From 1992 to 1994 the Neckarstadt team played in the newly created 2nd Bundesliga. Since 1994 the Rottweilers have not been able to leave the regional league. Since 2008, the RCR has had a first team again, currently playing in the 2nd Bundesliga South, after a syndicate with the second team of the Stuttgart RC was formed in the meantime .
RCR women's team
In the summer of 1989, the RCR women's team was founded on the occasion of a tournament in Neuilly sur Marne . From the beginning, the RCR women were quite successful. They finished third in the German championship in 1992 and 1993, but in 1994 they achieved their greatest success to date by winning the German championship after a 3-0 victory in the final against SC Neuenheim . The women’s team of the RCR was subsequently unable to repeat this success and broke up completely at the end of the 1990s.
Youth work
After the youth work at the RCR was not carried out very consistently for several years, Karl-Heinz Bahr and Gunther Wilde started a new beginning with a D-student team in 1996. Great importance was attached to the projects within the framework of the association and school cooperation. Today the RCR has a team in all age groups of pupils that takes part in the championships of the Rugby Association Baden-Württemberg (RBW).
Vintage rugby
In recent years the old men of the RCR have become a support in the oldies rugby of the RBW thanks to Gerhard Trick's commitment. The Georg Holek Cup was held in Rottweil for the second time in 2010.
National player
From the ranks of the RCR, Bernd Kramer, Martin Huonker, Peter Mehl, Armin Oesterle and Franz Roth came from both men and women with Jutta Sauter, Paola Lopez, Monika Hezinger, Susanne and Manuela Wiedemann.
Chairperson
- 1970–1991: Günter Thiel (Honorary Chairman since 1991)
- 1991–1993: Volker Weber
- 1993–1998: Karlheinz Eigenmann
- 1998–2002: Günter Thiel
- Since 2002: Karl-Heinz Bahr