This is a List of rugby union clubs in Germany. It lists all rugby union clubs in Germany registered with the German Rugby Federation, the DRV,[1] or taking part in the German league system.[2] As of April 2010, the International Rugby Board lists the number of clubs in Germany at 110.[3]
Some of the clubs competing in the German league system are clubs of the US and British armed forces in Germany and therefore not necessarily members of the DRV. Examples of US Army rugby clubs in Germany are the teams in Illesheim,[4] Ramstein and Vilseck, while other clubs, like in the RC Kaiserslautern, recruit some of their players from the US forces but have German players as well.[5] Up to 32 US forces teams had been playing in Southern Germany at its peak, based in Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, being organised in the "United States Forces Europe Rugby Union" (USFERU).[6] Most disappeared with the withdrawal of US forces from Germany at the end of the Cold War. A number of clubs remained but have since dropped out of the German league system, like the Bamberg RFC, Darmstadt 233rd BSB RFC, Hanau Hornets, Schweinfurt RFC, Spangdahlem RFC and Würzburg RFC, while a few, like the Ramstein Rogues RFC, Illesheim RFC and Baumholder RFC still compete in 2009–10.[7]
The RC Mönchengladbach Rhinos and the Elmpt Falcons are rugby teams of the British Army in Germany and still active.[8][9]
The oldest rugby union club in Germany is the DSV 78 Hannover, formed in 1878 as DFV Hannover, in a time when a differencation between rugby and football was not yet made in Germany.[10] While there is older clubs in Germany then DSV 78, like the Heidelberger TV which was formed in 1846, their rugby departments were established after DSV's.
^"Landesverbände & Vereine | Deutscher Rugby Verband, listing of recognized German rugby teams". Retrieved 14 November 2018.
^German rugby results & tables Archived 23 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine Rugby-Journal website, accessed: 16 April 2010
^IRB website – Country information Germany Archived 24 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine accessed: 17 April 2010
^Illesheim RFC website – History accessed: 17 April 2010
^Americans set to compete for German rugby clubs Stars and Stripes, published: 7 September 2006, accessed: 16 April 2010
^History of Bavarian Rugby Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Bavarian Rugby Federation website, accessed: 19 April 2010
^U.S. FORCES EUROPE RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION – CLUB LISTING AND CONTACTS Unofficial Army Rugby Team Homepage, accessed: 19 April 2010
^Solingen suffer record defeat in Moenchengladbach Solingen Zebras website, accessed: 17 April 2010
^BFG INSTALLATION ACCESS PASS FOR VETERANS DETAILS OF FACILITIES FOR JHQ/ELMPT/WILDENRATH British Army Rugby Union website, accessed: 17 April 2010
^Die große Tat des Ferdinand-Wilhelm Fricke (in German) DSV 78 website – History, accessed: 24 January 2009
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