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The RG Heidelberg is a German rugby union from Heidelberg, currently playing in the Rugby-Bundesliga. Apart from rugby, the club also offers the sport of rowing. ==History== The club was formed on 4 June 1898 as a rowing club. Out of necessity to have an alternative sport in winter, forzen rivers made rowing naturally impossible, the rugby department of the club was formed in 1919.〔(RG Heidelberg website ) History, accessed: 12 January 2009〕 The ''RGH'' was the third rugby club to be formed in Heidelberg, after the Heidelberger RK and the SC Neuenheim, making it easy for the new team to find opposition to play against. The SC 1880 Frankfurt and the rugby department of the VfB Stuttgart were also teams the club played in its early years. Due to many South Africans who were studying in Heidelberg, the club developed a good relationship with Dutch teams and eventually, the Dutch national colours, orange, became ''RGH's'' team colours, which they still are today.〔(RG Heidelberg website ) History, accessed: 12 January 2009〕 In 1930, the club played in its first German rugby union championship final but lost to SV Odin Hannover 0-13. In 1932, 1933, 1937 and 1938 the ''RGH'' made four more losing appearances in the German championship final. In 1959, the club appeared in another final, losing once more but in 1967 it finally won its first national title, winning the German rugby union cup. After another finals defeat in 1970 and the introduction of the Rugby-Bundesliga in 1971, the club formed its very successful youth department in 1972. In 1980, the team finally won its first German title, followed by another three in 1997, 2006 and 2007. The 2006 final, the 86th in the competitions history, produced a novelty in the history of the game in Germany, with ''RGH'' and ''SC Neuenheim'' two clubs from Heidelberg competed for the title, for the first time. It was also the first time that no club from Hannover stood in the final. In 1996, the club moved to its current home ground, the ''Fritz-Grunebaum-Sportpark''. While the club managed to upset SC 1880 Frankfurt in the 2007 German final, a repeat in the following season was not possible and the favorites from Frankfurt took out the title that year. After this, the club was unable to advance past the semi-final stage of the German championship. On 22 August 2011, five days before the start of the season, the club withdrew its reserve team from the 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga South/West, citing inability to guarantee a full player squad for the whole season.〔(RG Heidelberg zieht Reserveteam aus der 2. Bundesliga Süd zurück ) totlarugby.de, published: 22 August 2011, accessed: 29 August 2011〕 Shortly after, the club announced that the team would instead compete in the tier-three 3rd Liga South/West in 2011-12.〔(RG Heidelberg II startet in der 3. Liga Süd-West ) totlarugby.de, published: 1 September 2011, accessed: 3 September 2011〕 RGH finished first in their group in the 2012-13 season and qualified for the south/west division of the championship round, where it also came first. The club advanced to the semi finals of the play-offs where it was knocked out by SC Neuenheim, losing 18–32. In 2013–14 the team qualified for the championship and the play-offs once more, defeating TSV Victoria Linden 101–10 in the first round and losing to Berliner Rugby Club in the quarter finals. In the 2014–15 season the club finished fourth in the south-west championship group and was knocked out by Heidelberger RK in the semi finals of the play-offs after victories over FC St. Pauli Rugby and RK 03 Berlin. ''RG Heidelberg'' is the only club to have belonged to the Rugby-Bundesliga in every season since its interception. 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「RG Heidelberg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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