TSV Handschuhsheim Rugby

TSV rugby
Basic data
Surname	TSV Handschuhsheim 1886 eV Rugby department
Seat	Heidelberg, Handschuhsheim district
founding	July 27, 1949
Colours	Blue and white
Board	Matthias Bechtel
Website	www.tsv-rugby.de
First soccer team
Head coach	Mark Kuhlmann
Venue	Lions Park
Places	1500 standing places
league	1st Bundesliga South
Season 2018/2019	2nd place Home shirt

The TSV HANDSCHUHSHEIM (TSV Rugby) is a rugby club in the Heidelberg district of Handschuhsheim . The rugby department of TSV Handschuhsheim 1886 eV plays in the first rugby league . The department currently has around 400 members. In addition to the first men's team, the TSV has a second team (Regionalliga Baden-Württemberg), a women's team (German 7th league), an old-man team, and children's and youth teams in all age groups.

history

The "Student Council Rugby" of TSV Handschuhsheim was founded on July 27, 1949 in the inn "Zum Ritter" in the Heidelberg district of Handschuhsheim. The first game was played on September 25, 1949 against Heidelberger TV and ended with a 19: 8 win for Handschuhsheim. In the 1950s, the team established itself and moved into the final of the German championship four times. On May 19, 1957, TSV managed to win the only German championship in the club's history with a 6-3 victory over SC Elite Hannover. On September 23, 1956, the rugby field on Neckarfeld, which is today the training ground of the rugby department, was inaugurated with a game against Viktoria Hannover. The changing room was expanded and topped up in the early 1960s, so that a clubhouse with a commercial operation was created. The first team was also one of the best rugby teams in Germany in the 1960s. During this period, TSV established several youth teams that took part in matches in Baden-Württemberg. This youth work then bore fruit in the 1970s when TSV Handschuhsheim celebrated one of its most successful years in sport in 1978: it managed to win the runner-up championship and the runner-up cup. Due to an overaged team, TSV rose several times from the 1st Bundesliga in the 1980s. In response to this, the focus was again on youth work, which led to the first German school and youth championship titles in the 1990s. Since the late 1990s, the team has established itself in the 1st Bundesliga.

successes

TSV Rugby has so far achieved the following successes:

• German champion: 1957
• German runner-up: 1953, 1955, 1956, 1960, 1963, 1968, 1978, 2005, 2019
• German 7-man champion: 2004
• DRV Cup Winner: 2005, 2008, 2013
• League cup winners: 2006, 2007, 2010, 2015, 2016

Season results since 1999

season	league	placement	Trainer / co-trainer
1998/1999	Qualifying round	1st place	Mathias Bechtel
1999/2000	1st National League	6th place	Thomas Leimert / Jörg Becker
2000/2001	Championship round	6th place	Thomas Leimert / Jörg Becker
2001/2002	1st National League	4th Place	Thomas Leimert / Jörg Becker
2002/2003	1st National League	5th place	Eric Daniel
2003/2004	1st National League	4th Place	Eric Daniel
2004/2005	1st National League	2nd place, runner-up	Eric Daniel
2005/2006	1st National League	4th Place	Mathias Bechtel
2006/2007	1st National League	6th place	Mathias Bechtel
2007/2008	1st National League	3rd place	Mathias Bechtel, Günter Strässer
2008/2009	1st National League	6th place	Günter Strässer
2009/2010	1st National League	3rd place, semi-finals	Jan Ceselka
2010/2011	1st National League	3rd place, semi-finals	Jan Ceselka
2011/2012	1st National League	5th place	Jan Ceselka / Uwe Jansen
2012/2013	DRV cup round	1st place, cup winner	Uwe Jansen / Jan Ceselka
2013/2014	Championship round	6th place, quarter-finals	Alexander Pipa / Frank Genthner, Nico Strohmeier
2014/2015	Championship round	5th place, quarter-finals	Peter Ianusevici (sports advisor) / Alexander Hug, Jens Schmidt
2015/2016	1st Bundesliga South	5th place	Peter Ianusevici (sports advisor) / Alexander Hug, Jens Schmidt
2016/2017	1st Bundesliga South	4th Place	Peter Ianusevici (sports advisor) / Alexander Hug, Jens Schmidt
2017/2018	1st Bundesliga South	5th place	Gordon Hanlon
2018/2019	1st Bundesliga South	2nd place, runner-up	Gordon Hanlon
2019/2020	1st Bundesliga South	2nd place (end of season)	Mark Kuhlmann / Christopher Weselek

National player

Former German national players

Jens Schmidt (42 international matches), Peter Heller (35), Alexander Hug (27), Alexander Pipa (22), Hans-Joachim Schmitt (18), Sebastien Chaule (17), Mathias Pipa (15), Manfred Friedel (14) , Kuno Birk (13), Dieter Schröder (10), Otto Haas (9), Heiner Baumann (7), Arno Blesch (6), Hans Kücherer (6), Helmut Schmitt (6), Henning Geierhaas (5), Steffen Horwath (5), Werner Ohlheiser (4), Holger Jordan (4), Helmut Kücherer (3), Andreas Lorenz (3), Sven Wetzel (3), Erwin Birk (2), Gustav Dörzbacher (2), Dietmar Frank ( 2), Daniel Bung (2), Frank Dörsam (1), Thomas Müller (1), Felix Bayer (1), Eden Syme, Lukas Rosenthal

Current German national players

Marcus Bender, Jaco Otto, Marcel Cotzee, Anjo Buckmann, Christopher Korn, Felix Martel, Paul Schüle Nikolai Klewinghaus

Other countries

Marcello "Tuko" Audibert-Arias (Chile), Ali Sürer (Turkey), Firas El-Chami (Lebanon)

Cooperations

societies

The TSV maintains a regular exchange with the Moseley RFC (Birmingham, England) and the RC Vichy (France) , especially in the youth department .

schools

As part of the “Cooperation School - Club” project, TSV trainers offer a rugby club at various schools in the Rhein-Neckar district. These included u. a. the Tiefburg Elementary School , the Heiligenberg School, the Waldpark School (all in Heidelberg), the Norbert Preiß School (Wall), the Kurpfalz School and the Neuberg School (both in Dossenheim).

Trivia

The rugby team is called "The Lions". The name refers to the traditional story of the "Hensemer Löb": When Handschuhsheim was still a pure farming village, one day the farmers heard a threatening noise in their fields that sounded like the roar of a lion. That could only be a big cat that escaped from the Heidelberg zoo. The farmers then went out armed with flails and scythes to catch the lion. But they were amazed when the alleged lion's roar turned out to be the signal from the first steam tug (1878) on the Neckar, which returned the joyful greeting of the amazed residents with its ship's horn. Since then, the residents of Handschuhsheim have been called "the lions".

The rugby team was given an unofficial fifth stanza of the "anthem" Handschuhsheim, (praise to Handschuhsheim):

“In Handschuhsheim, you also play rugby,
probably the most beautiful sport.
The Hendsmer lions give everything
for their beloved place.
Cheerful even after defeats,
have friends all over the world,
the team fights for victory and joy
and for honor, not for money! "

Web links

• Official website of TSV Handschuhsheim, Rugby Department

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 50 years of TSV Rugby "Festschrift 99".
2. ↑ Teams - Men at www.tsv-rugby.de, accessed on April 22, 2014.
3. ↑ www.rugbyweb.de
4. ↑ TSV school tournament at www.tsv-rugby.de, accessed on April 22, 2014.