Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires

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This article is about a Rugby organization. URBA can also refer to the URBA mass transport system.

The Buenos Aires Rugby Union (Spanish: Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires), usually referred as URBA, is the governing body that organises and controls the rugby union in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, as well as the Buenos Aires Provincial Rugby Team for the national competitions of provinces of Argentina organised by the Unión Argentina de Rugby.

It is the most powerful of the provincial organisations of Argentina, providing more than half of the players of the Argentina national rugby union team. It also organises the Buenos Aires Rugby Union League, the most important league in Argentina, gathering 80 clubs of the provinces, with around 250 weekly matches including all the divisions.

[edit] Buenos Aires Provincial Team

The Buenos Aires team, the strongest within the provincial teams in Argentina, won 30 Torneo Argentino provincial titles of the 59 played, being by far the team with most victories. It has also played several international matches, of which the following are the most important results of the last years:

• 1999 Buenos Aires 31 - 29 Wales national rugby union team
• 1998 Buenos Aires 36 - 22 France national rugby union team
• 1997 Buenos Aires 23 - 21 England national rugby union team
• 1996 Buenos Aires 29 - 26 France national rugby union team
• 1993 Buenos Aires 28 - 27 South Africa national rugby union team
• 1990 Buenos Aires 26 - 23 England national rugby union team

[edit] Buenos Aires League

The Buenos Aires League, usually called Torneo de la URBA, is played by clubs of the province since 1899. The most successful teams are Club Atlético San Isidro (CASI) and San Isidro Club (SIC) with 33 and 23 titles respectively. These are all the champions since then:

1899 Lomas A.C. 1900 Buenos Aires 1901 Buenos Aires 1902 Buenos Aires 1903 Buenos Aires 1904 Buenos Aires 1905 Atlético del Rosario 1906 Atlético del Rosario 1907 Belgrano 1908 Buenos Aires 1909 Buenos Aires 1910 Belgrano 1911 GEBA 1912 GEBA 1913 Lomas 1914 Belgrano 1915 Buenos Aires 1917 CASI 1918 CASI 1920 CASI 1921 CASI - Belgrano * 1922 CASI 1923 CASI 1924 CASI 1925 CASI 1926 CASI 1927 CASI 1928 CASI 1929 CASI 1930 CASI 1931 CUBA 1932 GEBA 1933 CASI 1934 CASI 1935 Atlético del Rosario 1936 Belgrano

1937 Old Georgians 1938 Old Georgians 1939 Old Georgians - GEBA - SIC * 1940 Belgrano - Olivos * 1941 SIC 1942 CUBA 1943 CASI 1944 CUBA 1945 CUBA 1946 Pucará 1947 CUBA 1948 SIC 1949 CASI - CUBA * 1950 CUBA - Pucará 1951 CUBA 1952 CUBA 1953 Obras Sanitarias 1954 CASI 1955 CASI 1956 CASI 1957 CASI 1958 Buenos Aires 1959 Buenos Aires 1960 CASI 1961 CASI 1962 CASI 1963 Belgrano 1964 CASI 1965 CUBA 1966 Belgrano 1967 Belgrano - CASI * 1968 Belgrano - CUBA * 1969 CUBA 1970 CUBA - SIC * 1971 SIC

1972 SIC 1973 SIC 1974 CASI 1975 CASI 1976 CASI 1977 SIC 1978 SIC 1979 SIC 1980 SIC 1981 CASI 1982 CASI 1983 SIC 1984 SIC 1985 CASI 1986 SIC - Banco Nación * 1987 SIC 1988 SIC 1989 Alumni - Banco Nación * 1990 Alumni 1991 Alumni 1992 Alumni 1993 SIC 1994 SIC 1995 La Plata 1996 Hindú Club - Atlético del Rosario * 1997 SIC 1998 Hindú Club 1999 SIC 2000 Atlético del Rosario 2001 Alumni 2002 SIC 2003 SIC 2004 SIC 2005 CASI 2006 Hindú Club

* more than one champion that year

[edit] External links

• Official Site (Spanish)
• Provincial Tournament History at UAR
• URBA Rugby Pictures
• URBA History (Spanish)