Rugby Union in Austria

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Rugby match European Nations Cup: Denmark vs Austria, with record player Andreas Gaul

In Austria , the sports rugby union and 7-a-side rugby are practiced, all of which are considered amateur sports in this country. With the 1992/93 season rugby union is played in an official rugby championship. In contrast to rugby league, this sport is played with 15 players per team. For 80 minutes, both teams try to carry the rugby ball, an oval-shaped piece of equipment, into the opposing in-goal to score points (see try ).

In Austria, rugby is played as part of the Alpine Rugby Championship , an international amateur league in which 16 clubs from five national associations with 20 teams currently participate. It emerged from the 2014/15 season from the national and national leagues and regional competitions.

history

The first rugby game on Austrian soil took place on April 14, 1912. At that time two English teams played against each other on the Hohe Warte to make rugby better known in Austria. This was also successful until the thirties. After the Second World War , rugby disappeared for a long time. The first association was founded in 1978. He was named "Vienna Celtic Rugby Football Club" and comes from the Austrian rugby stronghold of Vienna . Nine years later, the second club, the Rugby Club Vienna, was founded.

Mainly the members of the RC Vienna drove the further expansion in Austria, with the success that the RC Donau was founded. In 1992 it became possible to start a championship with the three Austrian teams and that of the Lyçée Français. In 1993, thanks to an international match held in Leoben, another team was founded and the rugby alpine league was brought into being. The four Austrian and two Slovenian teams competed. A year later, this league was played again with one Croatian, two Slovenian and three Austrian teams. The RC Wien emerged from the Alpine League as the strongest team. After two seasons, however, the Alpine League had to be discontinued.

After the rugby World Cup in South Africa in 1995, two more clubs were founded in Graz and Villach. The 1995/96 season was contested in two leagues because the difference in level was too great for a league. In 1996/97 this idea was discarded and only one league was played. However, this turned out to be the wrong decision. The remaining three Viennese clubs - RC Wien, Celtic RFC and RC Lycee - played the Austro-Moravia League in the seasons 97/98 and 98/99 with three Moravian teams (Brno, Ollmütz, Zlin), from which both times the RC Vienna emerged as the winner. At the same time, RC Wien II, Celtic B, Graz, Leoben and Villach were fighting for the title in the Bundesliga.

The world championship in 1999 contributed to the founding of a new club, the RC Innsbruck. The RC Donau was newly founded. Since the end of 1999 there has also been a rugby club in Linz , Upper Austria , which entered the second division in autumn 2000. In qualifying for the World Cup in Australia in 2003, Austria failed in the 2nd round, but rose to Group A of the 3rd Division of FIRA-AER after three clear wins against Luxembourg (77-0), Israel (21-6) and Norway (51-7). In December 2003 rugby ran for membership of the BSO (Federal Sports Organization). In 2004 clubs were founded in Lienz and Krems an der Donau , in 2005 St. Anton am Arlberg and the WRC Innsbruck followed.

In 2006 the association was finally accepted as a full member of the BSO. The European Championship title of Group D of the U18 national team in Treviso (Italy) played a major role. This was achieved right from the first start with victories over Norway, Luxembourg and in the final Serbia.

societies

Men's

  1. Stade Rugby Club Vienna
  2. RU Danube Vienna
  3. Vienna Celtic RFC
  4. Wombats RC
  5. RC Graz
  6. 1. ORSC Linz
  7. RC Innsbruck
  8. RC Krems
  9. ARC Leoben
  10. Spartans RUC Melk
  11. RC Tigers
  12. Carinthian Matadors RFC
  13. RC Südburgenland
  14. CA Traunsee
  15. Vorarlberg RUFC

Juniors

  1. Stade Rugby Club Vienna
  2. RC VIS
  3. RU Danube Vienna
  4. Vienna Celtic RFC
  5. 1. ORSC Linz

Ladies

  1. RU Danube
  2. Women's Rugby Club Innsbruck
  3. ARC Leoben (inactive)
  4. Vienna Celtic RFC (inactive)
  5. RUFC Graz
  6. 1. ORSC Linz
  7. Spartans DRC Melk

National team

The Austrian Rugby Association provides national teams in three rugby sports: a men's national team and a U18 national team as the Austrian representative in rugby union , and a men's and women's national team in 7-a-side rugby.

National rugby union team

The Austrian national team made its first appearance in 1992. She is currently in the world rankings of the Rugby World Association World Rugby number 81 of 102 teams (at 31 March 2015). The national team of 15 is assigned to the third tier and has not yet qualified for a Rugby Union World Cup in five attempts .

On European soil, the national team represents Austria in Rugby Europe , the European continental association for rugby union. When the Austrian Rugby Association was founded in 1990, Austria also joined Rugby Europe (formerly FIRA-AER ). The first international match in the association's history took place on May 3, 1992 in Budapest against the Hungarian selection, which was lost 9-23. On November 21, 1992 in Ljubljana against Slovenia the first win with 5-9. The highest victory was celebrated on May 12, 2001 in the World Cup qualification against Luxembourg with 77-0. The biggest defeat was against Ukraine in 1994 with 72-0.

At the World Cup qualification in 2001 Austria failed in the 2nd round, but rose to Group A of the 3rd division of FIRA-AER after three clear victories against Luxembourg (77-0), Israel (21-6) and Norway (51-7). In December 2003 the Austrian Rugby Association ran for membership of the BSO (Federal Sports Organization) and was finally accepted in 2005.

In 2005 Austria achieved the best placement in the IRB World Ranking with 63rd place. The men's national team currently represents Austria in the European Nations Cup (ENC), a rugby union tournament organized by Rugby Europe, in which European national teams compete on an amateur level.

Austria's results ENC - Division 2C (2010/2012)

date home guest Result
October 16, 2010 Hungary Austria 22-16
November 6, 2010 Austria Norway 15-9
April 9, 2011 Israel Austria 20-11
May 14, 2011 Austria Denmark 23-16
October 22, 2011 Austria Israel 26-28
November 5, 2011 Austria Hungary 38-7
April 21, 2012 Denmark Austria 28-22
May 5, 2012 Norway Austria 11-6

Austria's results ENC - Division 2C (2012/2014)

date home guest Result
20th October 2012 Bulgaria Austria 12-7
17th November 2012 Austria Cyprus 20-54
April 6, 2013 Austria Hungary 10-11
April 20, 2013 Slovenia Austria 22-20
19th October 2013 Austria Bulgaria 58-14
November 30, 2013 Cyprus Austria 22-8
April 12, 2014 Hungary Austria 23-12
May 3, 2014 Austria Slovenia 20-8

Austria's results ENC - Division 2C (2014/2016)

date home guest Result
October 11, 2014 Austria Denmark 29-27
November 8, 2014 Luxembourg Austria 18-13
April 18, 2015 Serbia Austria 22-3
April 25, 2015 Austria Slovenia 16-17
October 10, 2015 Denmark Austria 25-31
October 24, 2015 Austria Luxembourg 6-34

Ranking

  • World Rugby Ranking: 83
  • ENC 2014-2016: Division 2C
  • U18 European Championship: Division C
  • 7s FIRA-AER: 1 (Conference 2)
  • 7s FIRA-AER Woman: 11 (Conference 1)

(As of March 20, 2016)

swell

  1. Rugby Europe http://www.rugbyeurope.eu/group-233.htm
  2. Rugby Danube http://www.rugbydonau.at
  3. LAOLA1.tv Rugby Austria Channel http://www.laola1.tv/de-at/aut-rugby-austria/602.html
  4. Rugby News Austria http://www.rugbynews.at
  5. The gentians bloom at the end http://derstandard.at/2000014869576/Die-Enziane-erbluehten-ganz-zum-Schluss

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