2015–16 Rugby-Bundesliga

2015–16 Rugby-Bundesliga
Countries  Germany
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The 2015–16 Rugby-Bundesliga is the 45th edition of this competition and the 96th edition of the German rugby union championship. In the Rugby-Bundesliga, sixteen teams play in two regional divisions, followed by play-offs consisting of the top two teams in each division. The regular season started on 29 August 2015 and will finish on 1 May 2016, followed by the semi-finals and the championship final, the latter scheduled for 21 May 2016. The season will be interrupted by a winter break from early November to early March.

The defending champions are Heidelberger RK who defeated TV Pforzheim 53–27 in the 2015 final to take out its twelfth championship and sixth in a row. The club thereby also equaled a championship record, becoming the second club after TSV Victoria Linden to win six consecutive titles.[1]

The modus and size of the league had been altered from the 2014–15 season, with the number of clubs reduced from, nominally, 24 to 16.

Overview

The Rugby-Bundesliga, which had been playing with 21 clubs in 2014–15, three less than the nominal strength of 24, was reduced to 16 clubs for 2015–16. The previous season, the league played a first round of four regional groups, followed by a second round with two regional groups of eight, and play-offs consisting of twelve teams, Instead, the 2015–16 season saw a reduction to just two regional groups of eight teams each.[2][3]

In the 2015–16 Bundesliga each team plays the other seven in their division twice, home and away, during the regular season. No games will be played between clubs from opposite divisions during this phase. The regular season will be followed by play-offs in which the winner of the south-west division plays the runners-up of the north-east and the winner of the north-east the runners-up of the south-west division. The two semi-final winners then contest the German championship final, scheduled for 21 May 2016.[2]

The remaining twelve teams enter the DRV-Pokal, whereby the clubs placed third and fourth receive a bye for the first round. The last placed team in each division will be automatically relegated to the 2. Rugby-Bundesliga. The second-last team in each division has to play the 2. Bundesliga semi-final losers for a place in the 2016–17 Rugby-Bundesliga.[2]

Compare to the 2014–15 season no team was promoted to the Bundesliga but five teams relegated from the league, TSV Victoria Linden, SG Siemensstadt/Grizzlies, Berliner SV 92 Rugby, RC Aachen and Heidelberger TV.[4]

Bundesliga tables

North-East

The division table (as of 6 December 2015):[5][6][7]

Club Played W D L PF PA Diff BP Points
1 RK 03 Berlin 9 9 0 0 372 72 300 844
2 DSV 78 Hannover 9 6 2 1 295 112 183 634
3 SC Germania List 9 6 1 2 353 160 193 733
4 Berliner Rugby Club 9 5 1 3 246 186 60 426
5 FC St. Pauli Rugby 9 3 0 6 159 328 -169 315
6 RC Leipzig 9 3 0 6 136 322 -186 315
7 RU Hohen Neuendorf 9 1 0 8 119 376 -257 15
8 Hamburger RC 9 1 0 8 116 240 -124 24
Club DSV RKB GER BRC HRC STP RUH RCL
DSV Hannover — 13–29 8–8 38–10 53–6 46–12
RK 03 Berlin — 45–19 46–5 53–0 71–8 57–3
Germania List 25–25 21–24 — 59–0 45–17 45–3
Berliner RC 0–28 — 44–14 48–12 55–0
Hamburger RC 3–23 3–19 — 12–29 30–10
FC St. Pauli 0–57 7–56 — 31–12 54–5
RU Hohen Neuendorf 17–38 14–58 17–16 — 29–31
RC Leipzig 19–33 22–45 5–28 15–11 33–20 —

South-West

The division table (as of 6 December 2015):[6][7][9]

Club Played W D L PF PA Diff BP Points
1 Heidelberger RK 9 9 0 0 687 74 613 945
2 TV Pforzheim 9 8 0 1 333 145 188 737
3 RG Heidelberg 9 7 0 2 307 160 147 432
4 SC Neuenheim 9 4 0 5 179 331 -152 420
5 SC 1880 Frankfurt 9 4 0 5 186 259 -73 319
6 TSV Handschuhsheim 10 3 0 7 187 362 -175 416
7 RK Heusenstamm 8 1 0 7 84 280 -196 26
8 ASV Köln Rugby 9 0 0 9 105 457 -352 33
Club HRK TVP SCN RGH TSV RKH SCF ASV
Heidelberger RK — 31–15 71–0 61–17
TV Pforzheim — 35–9 27–26 50–8
SC Neuenheim 7–125 10–28 — 21–8 32–8
RG Heidelberg 18–44 24–38 23–20 — 30–12 9–6 74–7
TSV Handschuhsheim 14–71 15–63 26–29 — 33–6 29–10
RK Heusenstamm 0–96 3–52 11–25 — 24–17
SC 1880 Frankfurt 0–73 17–35 38–3 35–9 — 48–8
ASV Köln Rugby 3–115 19–25 7–51 5–69 15–29 20–22 —

Key

Table: Championship play-offs Relegation play-offs Relegated
Results: Home win Draw Away win

References

  1. ↑ Heidelberger RK holt sich den sechsten Meistertitel in Folge (German) totalrugby.ce, published: 16 May 2015, accessed: 13 September 2015
  2. 1 2 3 Rugby-Bundesliga startet am Wochenende in ihre 45. Saison - Spielmodus erneut reformiert (German) totalrugby.de, published: 27 August 2015, accessed: 12 September 2015
  3. ↑ Reformierte Rugby-Bundesliga: Die Jagd ums Ei wird neu eröffnet (German) Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, published: 28 August 2015, accessed: 14 September 2015
  4. ↑ Archiv 2014-15 (German) rugbyweb.de, accessed: 13 September 2015
  5. ↑ 1. Bundesliga Nord/Ost (German) www.rugbyweb.de, accessed: 13 September 2015
  6. 1 2 Bundesliga 2015–16 scoresway.com, accessed: 13 September 2015
  7. 1 2 Bundesliga 2015–16 totalrugby.de, accessed: 13 September 2015
  8. 1 2 BL-Lizenzen: Drittel der Bundesligisten startet mit Punktabzügen oder unter Vorbehalt in die Saison (German) totalrugby.de, accessed: 13 September 2015
  9. ↑ 1. Bundesliga Süd/West (German) www.rugbyweb.de, accessed: 13 September 2015

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