Ulster rugby

Ulster rugby

Full name	Ulster rugby
Nickname (s)	The Ulstermen
Founded	1879
Stadion	Ravenhill Stadium
Places	12,300
president	Shane Logan
Trainer	Dan McFarland
Homepage	www.ulsterrugby.com
league	Pro14
2018/19	2. Conference B, semifinals
home Away

Ulster Rugby ( Irish Rugbaí Ulaidh) is a professional rugby union team from the historic province of Ulster on the island of Ireland . She plays in the international championship Pro14 and takes part in European cup competitions. The team represents the Irish Rugby Football Union Ulster Branch , one of four sub-associations of the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU). Home to the Ravenhill Stadium in Belfast . The team's greatest achievements are winning the Celtic League championship title in 2006 and the European Heineken Cup in 1999.

history

The Association of the Province of Ulster was founded in 1879. In the amateur era, the team played against the other three provinces ( Connacht , Leinster , Munster ) for the Irish provincial championship and was the most successful with 26 championship titles. She also competed regularly against national teams from the southern hemisphere. For example, in 1984 she won against the Wallabies , the national team of Australia .

Since the professionalization of rugby union in the 1990s, Ulster Rugby has participated in the Celtic League, the joint championship of Ireland, Scotland and Wales . In the first three events of the Heineken Cup, the team occupied the last place in their preliminary group. But in 1999 they made it to the final, beating French club US Colomiers 21: 6 at Lansdowne Road in Dublin and becoming the first Irish team to win the European Cup. Ulster was unable to confirm this success and has not yet qualified for the quarter-finals. However, the team remained undefeated at home games from 2002 to 2005.

In the 2003/04 season, Ulster was at the top of the Celtic League for a long time, but had to be overtaken by the Llanelli Scarlets from Wales on the last day of the game . The championship of the 2005/06 season decided Ulster only in the last game against the Ospreys for themselves when David Humphreys scored a drop goal in the last minute of the game from forty meters away . This gave Ulster an additional bonus point and moved up to the top of the table before Leinster. On May 19, 2012 Ulster was in the final of the Heineken Cup for the second time , but lost to Leinster . Against the same team, Ulster also lost the Pro12 championship final six days later.

successes

• Champion Pro14 : 2006
• Finalist Pro14: 2012
• Celtic Cup winner: 2004
• Heineken Cup winner : 1999
• Heineken Cup finalist: 2012
• Irish provincial championship: 26 championship titles

player

Current squad

The squad for the 2019/2020 season:

Front side (forwards) pier  Ross Kane  Kyle McCall  Jack McGrath  Gareth Milasinovich  Marty Moore  Tommy O'Hagan  Eric O'Sullivan  Tom O'Toole  Andy Warwick hooker  John Andrew  Rob Herring  Adam McBurney  Zack McCall Second row striker  Sam Carter  Iain Henderson  Alan O'Connor  David O'Connor  Kieran Treadwell Winger  Marcell Coetzee  Jordi Murphy  Marcus Rea  Sean Reidy  Clive Ross  Nick Timoney Number eight  Greg Jones  Matty Rea

Back line (backs) Half of the crowd  John Cooney  Dave Shanahan  Johnny Stewart Connection half  Billy Burns  Angus Curtis  Bill Johnston Inner three quarters  Matt Faddes  James Hume  Rob Lyttle  Luke Marshall  Stuart McCloskey  Jacob Stockdale Outer three-quarters  Will Addison  Robert Baloucoune  Craig Gilroy  Angus Kernohan Goalkeeper  Michael Lowry  Louis Ludik

British and Irish Lions

The following Ulster Provincial players have been nominated for the British and Irish Lions .

trip	player
1910	Tommy Smyth
	Alexander Foster
1938	Robert Alexander
	Paddy Mayne
1950	Jack Kyle
	Jimmy Nelson
1955	Cecil Pedlow
	Robin Thompson
1959	David Hewitt
1962	Tom Kiernan
1962	Raymond Hunter
	Willie John McBride
	Syd Millar
1966	Mike Gibson
	Willie John McBride (2nd nomination)
	Roger Young
1968	Mike Gibson (2nd nomination)
	Willie John McBride (3rd nomination)
	Syd Millar (2nd nomination)
	Roger Young (2nd nomination)
1971	Mike Gibson (3rd nomination)
	Willie John McBride (4th nomination)
1974	Mike Gibson (4th nomination)
	Willie John McBride (5th nomination)
	Stewart McKinney
	Richard Milliken
1980	Colin Patterson
1983	David Irwin
	Trevor Ringland
1986	Nigel Carr
	Trevor Ringland (2nd nomination)
1989	Steve Smith
1997	Jeremy Davidson
	Eric Miller
2001	Jeremy Davidson (2nd nomination)
	Tyrone Howe
2009	Tommy Bowe
	Stephen Ferris
2013	Rory Best
	Tommy Bowe (2nd nomination)
	Tom Court
2017	Rory Best (2nd nomination)
	Iain Henderson
	Jared Payne

Web links

• Ulster Rugby website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Senior Team. Ulster Rugby, accessed August 29, 2019 .