RK Heusenstamm

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Full nameRugby-Klub Heusenstamm e.V.
Union German Rugby Federation
Founded1979
Location Heusenstamm, Germany
Ground(s)Sportzentrum Martinsee (Capacity: 10,000)
ChairmanJürgen Zeiger
Coach(es)Jens Steinweg
Captain(s) Markus Walger
League(s) Rugby-Bundesliga
2015–16 Rugby-Bundesliga South/West, 7th
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Official website
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The RK Heusenstamm is a German rugby union club from Heusenstamm, currently playing in the Rugby-Bundesliga.

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History

The club was formed in 1979, much later than most other current Bundesliga clubs, in Heusenstamm, Hesse.

After relegation from the Rugby-Bundesliga in 2000, the club played in the 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga for a number of seasons.

The RKH's greatest success came in 2006, when it managed to take out the German sevens championship.

In 2007, the club achieved promotion back to the first division through winning its league and a subsequent 52–10 victory over the North/East champion SC Germania List.

The following season, 2007-08, the team finished last in the Bundesliga but was saved from relegation by the decision to expand the league from 8 to 9 teams for 2008-09.

In the 2008–09 season, the team lived a separate existence from the six clubs contending for the four final spots as well as the two strugglers at the end of the table, clearly removed in points from both groups in seventh place.

In 2010–11, the club, coming last, was only saved from relegation because only one team opted for Bundesliga promotion, with the league expanded from nine to ten clubs.

A league reform in 2012 allowed the club to remain in the Bundesliga after initially being relegated as the league was expanded from ten to 24 teams. RK finished second in their group in the 2012–13 season and qualified for the south/west division of the championship round, where it came sixth. The club was knocked out in the first round of the play-offs after losing 45–34 to RK 03 Berlin.

In 2013–14 the team qualified for the championship and the play-offs once more, losing 33–19 to RK 03 Berlin in the first round and being knocked out. In the 2014–15 season the club finished sixth in the south-west championship group and was knocked out by TV Pforzheim in the quarter-finals of the play-offs after a first round victory over Berliner Rugby Club.

Club honours

Recent seasons

Recent seasons of the club: [1]

Men

YearDivisionPosition
1998-99Rugby-Bundesliga South/West (I)6th
Bundesliga qualification round2nd
1999-2000Rugby-Bundesliga South/West6th
Bundesliga qualification round4th Relegated
2000-01 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga South/West (II)1st
Bundesliga qualification round5th
2001-022nd Rugby-Bundesliga South/West (II)4th
2002-032nd Rugby-Bundesliga South/West3rd
2003-042nd Rugby-Bundesliga South/West4th
2004-052nd Rugby-Bundesliga South/West2nd
2005-062nd Rugby-Bundesliga South/West2nd
2006-07 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga South/West1st Promoted
2007-08 Rugby-Bundesliga (I)8th
2008-09 Rugby-Bundesliga7th
2009–10 Rugby-Bundesliga8th
2010–11 Rugby-Bundesliga9th
2011–12 Rugby-Bundesliga10th
2012–13 Rugby-Bundesliga qualification round – West2nd
Rugby-Bundesliga championship round – South-West6th Round of sixteen
2013–14 Rugby-Bundesliga qualification round – West1st
Rugby-Bundesliga championship round – South-West5th First round
2014–15 Rugby-Bundesliga qualification round – West1st
Rugby-Bundesliga championship round – South-West6th — Quarter finals
2015–16 Rugby-Bundesliga South-West7th

Women

YearDivisionPosition
2004-05
2005-06Regionalliga West (III)6th Promoted
2006–07Women's 2nd Rugby Bundesliga (II)3rd
2007–08Women's 2nd Rugby Bundesliga4th
2008–09Women's 2nd Rugby Bundesliga7th Relegated
2009–10Regionalliga West (III)

Rugby internationals

In Germany's 2006–08 European Nations Cup campaign, the brothers Dennis and Markus Walger were called up for the national team.

In the 2008–10 campaign, Markus Walger was called up again.

In the 2010–12 campaign, no player from the club was selected for Germany.

The club had one player selected for the German under-18 team at the 2009 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Sam Rainger . [2] No player from RKH was called up for the 2010 tournament. [3]

References

  1. RugbyWeb Ergebnisarchiv (in German) rugbyweb.de - Results archive, accessed: 24 July 2012
  2. U18-EM: Deutschland feiert klaren Auftaktsieg [ permanent dead link ](in German) Rugby-Journal - 2009 squad, published: 4 April 2009, accessed: 30 April 2010
  3. U18 in Bestbesetzung zur EM nach Italien (in German) totalrugby.de, published: 23 March 2010, accessed: 30 April 2010