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The Spain national rugby union team represents the whole country and have been playing international rugby since the late 1920s. Their first match was in 1929 against Italy, which Spain won 9–0. Spain has thus far made one Rugby World Cup appearance, in 1999. They were grouped in Pool A, alongside South Africa, Scotland and Uruguay. South ...
CAU Madrid Rugby Club, previously known as CAU Metropolitano RC, is a Spanish rugby team based in Madrid. The acronym originally stood for Club Atlético Universitario - University Athletic Club in Spanish. Founded in 1961, they currently play in the 1º provincial, Spain's third flight.
Its first match was played on 25 December of the same year against another historic Catalan rugby club team, UE Santboiana. The following year, the club was incorporated to the Catalan Championship In 1930 many of the Unión Deportiva de Estudiantes Católicos players were incorporated and the club changed name to Barcelona Universitari Club.
Rugby union was introduced in Southern Catalonia in 1921, when Baldiri Aleu i Torres founded the Unió Esportiva Santboiana. In 1922 the Catalan Rugby Federation was founded, which was one of the founding members of the Paris-based FIRA – Association of European Rugby, [1] from which it was expelled at the behest of Franco's fascist regime ...
Rugby in Spain may refer to: Rugby union in Spain; Rugby league in Spain This page was last edited on 1 ...
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century. Rugby is based on running with the ball in hand.
The club was born as the rugby department of Real Canoe Natación Club (one of the oldest swimming clubs of Spain) in 1963. [1] One year after being established, the club won its first title, the Copa del Rey (then named "Copa del Generalísimo") after defeating Unión Deportiva Samboyana by 3-0 at Ruiz de Alda stadium.
The code of football later known as rugby union can be traced to three events: the first set of written rules in 1845, the Blackheath Club's decision to leave the Football Association in 1863 and the formation of the Rugby Football Union in 1871. The code was originally known simply as "rugby football".