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The 2009–10 Rugby-Bundesliga was the 39th edition of this competition and the 90th edition of the German rugby union championship. Ten teams played a home-and-away season with a finals round between the top four teams at the end. The bottom two teams are relegated. The season started on 29 August 2009 and finished with the championship final on 29 May 2010, interrupted by a winter break from early December to late March.〔(Rugby Spielpläne - 2009-10 - 1. Bundesliga ) rugbyweb.de, accessed: 18 March 2010〕 The competition's defending champion was SC 1880 Frankfurt, who won it in the previous two seasons. In the 2010 final, ''SC 1880'' lost to Heidelberger RK, the previous seasons runners-up, which won its first championship since 1986 and its seventh overall. The final was drawn 22-all after regular time and was decided in extra time, where ''HRK'' scored 17 unanswered points to be crowned German champions of the men, already having won the 2010 women's final earlier that year. The 2010 final was contested by the two teams expected to do so at the start of the season, ''SC 1880'' and ''HRK'' being the only two teams in Germany considered professional.〔(Société Générale Endspieltag: SC 80 vor Titel-Hattrick ) ''Rugby-Journal'', published: 28 May 2010, accessed: 30 May 2010〕 The final was considered to have been of high niveau, with long-term German ''Bundestrainer'' Peter Ianusevici declaring it the best German championship final he had ever watched.〔(Heidelberger RK deutscher Meister 2010 ) ''Rugby-Journal'', published: 29 May 2010, accessed: 30 May 2010〕 Below the Rugby-Bundesliga sat the 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga, which is divided into two divisions with ten teams each. With the RC Luxembourg, a team from Luxembourg, a non-German side competed in the league in 2009-10. The inclusion of this side in the 2009 promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga had caused some debate in regards to its legality, as the club had not qualified to do so through the German league system and was not a member of any of the German regional rugby federations. However, RC Luxembourg's application was declared valid in regards to the German Rugby Federation's rules and regulations and the team finished second in the promotion round, earning a place in the 2nd Bundesliga for 2009-10.〔(Karlsruhe und Luxemburg steigen in die 2.Liga Süd auf ) totalrugby.de, published: 6 July 2009, accessed: 19 March 2010〕 }} ==Overview== The 2009-10 modus was somewhat different from the previous season. The competition had been expanded from nine to ten teams. It marks the first time since introduction of the single-division Bundesliga in 2001, that ten teams competed in the league. This change of modus was decided upon on 19 July 2008 at the annual general meeting of the German rugby association, the ''DRV''. It was decided to expand the league to ten teams for 2009-10. It was also then decided to introduce an extended play-off format.〔(DRT beschließt Reform des Spielbetriebs ) Rugby Journal - Reforms 2008, accessed: 7 January 2009〕 All up, the number of season games in the Rugby-Bundesliga increases to 94 from 76. Like in 2008-09, the top four teams qualified for the finals. The two semi-finals winners then contested the championship final. At the bottom end of the table, nominally the last two teams were relegated while the 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga champions are promoted, however, this was subject to the 2nd Bundesliga champions accepting promotion, which was not the case. The defending champion in 2009-10 was SC 1880 Frankfurt, who beat Heidelberger RK in the 2008-09 final while the ASV Köln Rugby and DSV 78 Hannover were newly promoted to the league, having replaced the DRC Hannover. Suffering from a string of injuries, especially to its forward line, and heavy defeats during the season, ASV Köln Rugby made the decision in mid-April 2010, to withdraw from the Rugby-Bundesliga and not to play its five remaining matches. ''Köln'' thereby was automatically relegated from the league.〔(ASV Köln verkündet Rückzug aus der Rugbybundesliga ) totalrugby.de, published: 16 April 2010, accessed: 17 April 2010〕 In the 2nd Bundesliga, the winners of the two divisions were nominally promoted to the Bundesliga, unless they were reserve teams, in which case the right for promotion would have gone to the next-best non-reserve team. The bottom two teams in the 2nd Bundesliga faced the prospect of relegation to the Rugby-Regionalliga. In the South/West Division, the Karlsruher SV Rugby withdrew in March 2010, its record being expulsed.〔(TotalRugby Review 2. Bundesliga: 12. Spieltag ) totalrugby.de, published: 28 March 2010, accessed: 30 March 2010〕 As a sign of the gap between the Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga, TSV Victoria Linden, who only won the 2009-10 North/East division in the last round of the championship, declined promotion, citing the additional cost of travelling and the limited player pool as their reason. The South/West champion, Stuttgarter RC, has also indicated that it would not take up promotion because of the loss of eight first-team players at the end of the season, leaving the Bundesliga with only eight clubs for the next season. It also meant, for the first time ever, that no club from Hanover would compete at the top level of German rugby.〔(Victoria Linden verzichtet auf den Bundesligaaufstieg ) , totalrugby.de, published: 27 May 2010, accessed: 29 May 2010〕〔(RC gewinnt Zweitligameisterschaft - verzichtet aber dennoch auf den Aufstieg ) , totalrugby.de, published: 31 May 2010, accessed: 1 June 2010〕 ''DSV 78'' protested the decision to reduce the league to eight teams again and thereby relegating the club.〔(Abstieg von Hannover 78 besiegelt - Bundesligasaison 2010/2011 mit nur 8 Mannschaften ) totalrugby.de, published: 8 June 2010. accessed: 14 June 2010〕 For the 2nd Bundesliga, this also meant, only one team each would be promoted to the two regional divisions, in the North/East, this was SC Siemensstadt, the club being directly promoted, while, in the South/West, TV Pforzheim won the promotion tournament of the five southern Regionalliga champions in Nuremberg on 12 June 2010.〔(TV Pforzheim gewinnt das Aufstiegsturnier zur 2. Bundesliga Süd ) totalrugby.de, published: 13 June 2010. accessed: 14 June 2010〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2009–10 Rugby-Bundesliga」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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