FT Adler Kiel Rugby

The FT Adler Kiel Rugby is a German rugby union club from Kiel, currently playing in the 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga North/East. It is part of a larger club, the FT Adler Kiel, which also offers other sports like volleyball, table tennis and handball.

FT Adler Kiel Rugby
Full nameFreie Turnerschaft Adler Kiel von 1893 e.V.
UnionGerman Rugby Federation
Founded1893 (club)
1999 (rugby department)
LocationKiel, Germany
Ground(s)Professor Peters Platz
ChairmanKlaus Schmäschke
Coach(es)Alwin Klick
Captain(s)Christian Droll
League(s)2. Rugby-Bundesliga (II)
2015–162. Rugby-Bundesliga North, 2nd
Official website
kielrugby.de

The term Adler is the German word for eagle.

History

Origins

Kiel rugby began in the 1930s, when the local shipyards workers and German Navy members, then called the Reichsmarine, formed the 1. Kieler Rugby Fussball Verein.[1]

In post-Second World War Germany, competitive rugby in Kiel resumed in 1949, when three local clubs competed in a league with clubs from Hamburg. The three clubs were the 1. Kieler Rugby Fussball Verein, PSV Kiel and FT Adler. Rugby in Kiel greatly benefited from a strong support through the British Army, which was stationed at Kiel-Holtenau.[1]

Towards the end of the 1950s, Kiel rugby declined and the clubs were only able to field a combined team. In 1963, even this team had to be disbanded. As a form of farewell to rugby in Kiel, a final friendly match was organized. The match was against a team selected from a visiting detachment of the Japanese Navy. After this, rugby disappeared from the city for almost 30 years.[1]

Current club

Rugby returned to Kiel in the late 1980s through the efforts of foreign students at the University of Kiel.[1] The current rugby department of FT Adler was formed in 1997 however.[2]

FT Adler took out the 2008 championship in the Regionalliga North but failed in the promotion round, losing on aggregate to RU Hohen Neuendorf.[3]

The club earned promotion from the Rugby-Regionalliga North, after another championship there, to the 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga, the second tier of German club rugby, in 2009.[4]

Kiel lasted for only one season at this level before being relegated again to the Regionalliga, where it came fourth in 2010-11. At the end of the 2014–15 season the club was promoted back to the 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga after a Regionalliga championship.

Club honours

Recent seasons

Recent seasons of the club:[5]

Year Division Position
2005-06 Rugby-Regionalliga North (III) 3rd
2006–07 Rugby-Regionalliga North 6th
2007–08 Rugby-Regionalliga North 1st
2008–09 Rugby-Regionalliga North 1st — Promoted
2009–10 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga North/East (II) 9th — Relegated
2010–11 Rugby-Regionalliga North (III) 4th
2011–12 Rugby-Regionalliga North 5th
2012–13 Rugby-Regionalliga North 2nd
2013–14 Rugby-Regionalliga North 4th
2014–15 Rugby-Regionalliga North 1st — Promoted
2015–16 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga North 2nd
2016–17 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga North 5th
2017–18 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga North 5th
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References
  1. FT Adler Kiel Rugby website - History (in German) accessed: 7 April 2010
  2. FT Adler Kiel club info at totalrugby.de (in German) accessed: 7 April 2010
  3. Rugby Spielpläne - Archiv 2007/2008 - Regionalliga Nord (in German) rugbyweb.de, accessed: 7 April 2010
  4. Rugby Spielpläne - Archiv 2008/2009 - Regionalliga Nord (in German) rugbyweb.de, accessed: 7 April 2010
  5. RugbyWeb Ergebnisarchiv (in German) rugbyweb.de - Results archive, accessed: 24 July 2012
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