The Club Universitario de Córdoba (Uni Córdoba) is a multi-sports club in Córdoba, Argentina

Córdoba, Argentina

Córdoba is a city located near the geographical center of Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas on the Suquía River, about northwest of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Province. Córdoba is the second-largest city in Argentina after the federal capital Buenos Aires, with...

. Today the club is mostly famous for their rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 team.

History

Club Facultad de Medicina was founded in Córdoba in 1906 by students of the city's medical school. A year later students from the law and engineering schools joined and Club Universitario de Córdoba was founded on 8 April 1907.

Athletics would become the first sport practiced at the club, later followed by fencing

Fencing

Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...

, association football, swimming

Swimming (sport)

Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

, rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

, basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 and field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

.

Rugby

Club Universitario de Córdoba were a founding member of the Unión Cordobesa de Rugby

Unión Cordobesa de Rugby

The Córdoba Rugby Union or UCR is the organisational body that controls the game of rugby union in the province of Córdoba, Argentina.- History :The union was founded the 20 April 1931, in order to facilitate the practice of rugby in the province....

 and won the first ever Cordobeso tournament's title in 1931.

Uni still hold the record for wins in the provincial tournament with 20 titles, however their last win was in 1977. In recent years Uni have struggled to make an impact on the competition. Their drop in form coinciding with the arrivals of much younger clubs such as Tala

Tala Rugby Club

Tala Rugby Club, or simply Tala, is an Argentine rugby union and field hockey club sited in Córdoba Province. The rugby team currently plays in the Torneo del Centro league.-History:...

 and La Tablada

Club La Tablada

La Tablada Rugby Club, or simply Club La Tablada, is a rugby union and field hockey club based in the city of Córdoba, Argentina. Founded in 1943 as a social institution, La Tablada started playing rugby union and field hockey from the 1950s.-History:...

 who have dominated cordobeso rugby since the 1970s.

Honours

• Unión Cordobesa de Rugby
  Unión Cordobesa de Rugby
  The Córdoba Rugby Union or UCR is the organisational body that controls the game of rugby union in the province of Córdoba, Argentina.- History :The union was founded the 20 April 1931, in order to facilitate the practice of rugby in the province....
  
  
  • Winners (20): 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1941, 1942, 1945, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1976, 1977

External links

• Official Site (Spanish)