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The Atlanta Rhinos are an American Rugby League team based in Atlanta, Georgia. 2014 was their inaugural season in the USA Rugby League . They play all their home games at Atlanta Silverbacks Park .
The Atlanta Renegades Rugby Football Club (also known as The 'Gades), founded in 1971, is a premier D1 men's rugby union team based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The club competes in and is governed by the Georgia Rugby Union [ 1 ] (GRU), USA Rugby South (USARS), and USA Rugby .
Major League Rugby (MLR) [a] is a professional rugby union competition for clubs in the United States.It is currently contested by eleven teams. While operating outside of the governance and oversight of the national governing body, the league is officially sanctioned by USA Rugby—a member union of Rugby Americas North (RAN)—and is consequently part of World Rugby.
On September 21, 2018, Major League Rugby, the top-level rugby union league in North America, announced that Atlanta was one of the expansion teams joining the league for the 2020 season. [10] The team name Rugby ATL was revealed on February 26, 2019. [11] In 2023, the team relocated to Los Angeles.
The formation of the USA Rugby League was announced on January 12, 2011. Seven teams that had previously competed in the American National Rugby League, the United States' established rugby league organization and recognized governing body for the sport, announced they were breaking with the AMNRL to form a new league.
Georgia has professional Rugby league and Rugby union clubs based in Atlanta. The Atlanta Rhinos joined the North American Rugby League for its inaugural season in 2022. [19] They previously played semi-professionally in the USA Rugby League, winning 1 championship in 2017. Rugby ATL were founded in 2018 and began play in Major League Rugby in ...
It is also the home of the Atlanta Rhinos of USA Rugby League, Atlanta Renegades Rugby Club, and was previously used by Rugby ATL of Major League Rugby. The park includes a 5,000-seat soccer-specific stadium, which opened in 2006 and is designed for future expansion. The venue was the site of Soccer Bowl 2013.
The Hustle, along with the Atlanta Soul, sponsored and supported the first Color of Ultimate game, a mixed showcase game held in Atlanta on June 22, 2019. [4] [5] The Color of Ultimate games are a project of the Atlanta Flying Disc Club (AFDC) Project Diversity initiative aimed at raising the profiles of elite ultimate players of color from around the world.