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Rugby union is a growing team sport in Spain. As of 2019, there were 37,241 registered rugby union players in Spain, playing for 332 clubs in various divisions.The sport's governing body in Spain, the Spanish Rugby Federation (Spanish: Federación Española de Rugby), was founded in 1923.
Sport in Spain in the second half of the 20th century has always been dominated by football. Other popular sport activities include basketball , tennis , cycling , padel , handball , rugby , rally , motorcycling , judo , Formula One , water sports , dancing , rhythmic gymnastics , bullfighting , golf , and skiing .
The Royal [1] Spanish Rugby Federation (Spanish: Real Federación Española de Rugby) is the governing body for the sport of rugby union in Spain.. The Spanish Rugby Federation was founded in 1923, and joined the International Rugby Football Board, later known as the International Rugby Board and now as World Rugby, in 1988.
The Spanish Rugby League Association (Spanish: Asociación Española de Rugby League, AERL) also known as España Rugby League, is the governing body of rugby league in Spain. The body was officially founded in 2013 and has held affiliate-level membership of the Rugby League European Federation since 2015, making the national team eligible to ...
The Spain national rugby league team was formed in 2014 and defeated Belgium in their first match. By beating Latvia in a playoff and then Malta and Greece in an initial qualifying group in 2015, they advanced to the final qualifying stage for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup , where they were placed in a three team group (Pool B) alongside ...
For most of its history, rugby was a strictly amateur football code, and the sport's administrators frequently imposed bans and restrictions on players who they viewed as professional. It was not until 1995 that rugby union was declared an "open" game, and thus professionalism was sanctioned by the code's governing body, World Rugby —then ...
Spain remained in the top 20 throughout the year, ending 2013 ranked 19th. [5] Despite this, the 2015 campaign was similarly disastrous, winning only two of their games as well as two draws. This led to a restructure of the makeup and strategies of the FER. [6] Spain has recently participated in the World Rugby Nations Cup and the 2014 IRB ...
The opening ceremony of the sports facilities and the stadium was on 12 October 1943, on the Spanish national holiday. Originally, the stadium was built for university sports, but in 1954 the Spanish national rugby union team used the stadium for a home match against Portugal, Spain won 23-0.