RC Unterföhring

The Rugby Club Unterföhring is a German rugby union club from Munich district, currently playing in the 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga and with a second team in the Verbandsliga Bayern. It is based in Unterföhring, the closest suburb to Munich city centre. Since January 2017 the RCU is the second biggest rugby club in Bavaria with 240 members.[1]

RC Unterföhring
Full nameRugby Club Unterföhring e.V.
UnionGerman Rugby Federation
Founded21 June 2012
LocationUnterföhring, Germany
ChairmanFlorian Gebhard
League(s)2. Rugby-Bundesliga
2018-20195th
Official website
www.rugby-unterfoehring.de

Also Unterföhring was the smallest municipality in Germany with its own rugby union club.[2] from 2012 until 2016.[3] After the promotion to the 2. Bundesliga in 2016/17 Unterföhring is the only village (German: Gemeinde) in the history of German rugby to have ever played in a Bundesliga. All other clubs where always based in towns or cities (German: Stadt) or army bases.

The RCU also has a growing youth section and the club is the fourth biggest club with kids under 14 years old in all of Germany.[4] The RCU has secured championships in the Under 8, Under 10 and Under 12 age groups in recent years, as well as runners-up in U8, U10, U12 and U14. The RCU youth teams are known for consistently being able to field complete sides in the Bavarian youth competition.

Founded in 2016 the RCU also has a women's team playing in the Deutsche 7er-Liga Frauen Süd.

Facilities

The RCU plays their home-games on the rugby pitch in Unterföhring am Etzweg. In 2021/22 the RCU will move to the new Unterföhring sports complex, where there will be a grass pitch only for rugby as well as a shared artificial pitch, making it the Bavarian club with the best facilities.[5]

Honours

Seniors:

  • Bavarian rugby union championship
    • Runners-up: 2016, 2017
  • Promotion to 2nd Bundesliga
    • 2017
  • Quarter Finals Liga Pokal
    • 2018

Youth

  • Bavarian rugby union championship
    • Champions: Under-8: 2017, 2018, 2019; Under-10: 2017, 2018; Under-12: 2019
      • Runners-up: Under-8: 2016; Under-10: 2015, 2016; Under-12: 2018; Under-14 2019

Recent seasons

Recent seasons of the club:

First team
Year Division Position
2012-13 Rugby-Regionalliga Bavaria (IV) 7th[6]
2013-14 Rugby-Regionalliga Bavaria (IV) 6th[7]
2014-15 Rugby-Regionalliga Bavaria (III) 6th[8]
2015–16 Rugby-Regionalliga Bavaria 2nd[9]
2016 playoff 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga South lost[10]
2016–17 Rugby-Regionalliga Bavaria 2nd promoted
2017-18 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga South 5th
2018-19 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga South 5th
2019-20 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga South cancelled due to Covid-19-outbreak
2020-21 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga South

Reserve team
Year Division Position
2012-13 Rugby-Verbandsliga Bavaria (V) 4th[11]
2013-14 Rugby-Verbandsliga Bavaria (V) 6th[12]
2016-17 Rugby-Verbandsliga Bavaria North (IV) 3rd[13]
2017-18 Rugby-Verbandsliga Bavaria South (IV) 4th[14]
2018-19 Rugby-Verbandsliga Bavaria (IV) 8th[15]
2019-20 Rugby-Verbandsliga Bavaria (IV) cancelled due to Covid-19 outbreak

Women
Year Division Position
2017 - 2018 Rugby-7s Division South (I) 10th[16]
2018 - 2019 Rugby-7s Division South (I) 4th[17]
2019 - 2020 Rugby-7s Division South (I) cancelled due to Covid-19 outbreak

References
  1. https://www.merkur.de/sport/lokalsport/muenchen-lk/rugby-club-unterfoehring-steigt-ueberraschend-doch-noch-auf-8482590.html
  2. http://www.wochenanzeiger.de/article/156642.html] (in German) Newspaper, accessed: 06 July 2016
  3. http://www.totalrugby.de/content/view/7974/43/
  4. http://www.totalrugby.de/content/view/10230/41/
  5. Unterföhring, Sabine Wejsada (2017-07-17). "Die Quadratur des Ovals". sueddeutsche.de (in German). ISSN 0174-4917. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
  6. (in German) rugbyweb.de - Results archive, accessed: 03 April 2014
  7. (in German) rugbyweb.de - Results archive, accessed: 30 June 2014
  8. (in German) rugbyweb.de - Results archive, accessed: 6 July 2016
  9. (in German) rugbyweb.de - Results archive, accessed: 6 July 2016
  10. (in German) rugbyweb.de - Results archive, accessed: 26 September 2016
  11. (in German) rugbyweb.de - Results archive, accessed: 03 April 2014
  12. http://rugbyweb.de/index.php?archive=2013-14&league=392] (in German) rugbyweb.de - Results archive, accessed: 26 September 2016
  13. (in German) rugbyweb.de - Results archive, accessed: 20 May 2019
  14. (in German) rugbyweb.de - Results archive, accessed: 20 May 2019
  15. (in German) rugbyweb.de - Results archive, accessed: 17 June 2020
  16. (in German) rugbyweb.de - Results archive, accessed: 20 May 2019
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