The Karlsruher SV Rugby is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 rugby union

Rugby union

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 club from Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe

The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...

, currently playing in the Regionalliga Baden-Württemberg

Rugby-Regionalliga

The Rugby-Regionalliga is the third-highest level of Germany's Rugby union league system, organised by the German Rugby Federation. Its set below the 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga...

. It is part of a larger club, the Karlsruher SV, which also offers other sports like tennis

Tennis

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, association football and lacrosse

Lacrosse

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, the later under the name of Karlsruhe Storm

Karlsruhe Storm

Karlsruhe Storm is a lacrosse team in Karlsruhe, Germany that was founded in 2007. It was originally a university team and practice took place on the campus of the University of Karlsruhe until October 2007, when the team transferred to the Club "Karlsruher SV"...

.

History

The KSV was formed in 1991 through a merger of to local clubs, the FC Nordstern Rintheim, formed 1909, and the FC Waldstadt, formed in 1962.

The clubs rugby department achieved promotion to the 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga from the Rugby-Regionalliga

Rugby-Regionalliga

The Rugby-Regionalliga is the third-highest level of Germany's Rugby union league system, organised by the German Rugby Federation. Its set below the 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga...

 in 2003, finishing fifth in the new league in its first season there.

The second season ended with relegation back to the Regionalliga and it took the club until 2009, to return to the second division. Hopelessly outclassed at this level, the club withdrew its team from the competition at the winter break, KSV therefore being automatically relegated from the league. In 2010-11 KSV made a new start playing in the lowest league, the Rugby-Verbandsliga Baden-Württemberg, the fifth division, to rebuild and restructure the squad and management of the rugby department.

Club honours

• Rugby-Regionalliga Baden-Württemberg
  Rugby-Regionalliga
  The Rugby-Regionalliga is the third-highest level of Germany's Rugby union league system, organised by the German Rugby Federation. Its set below the 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga...
  
  
  • Champions: 2009

Recent seasons

Year	Division	Position
2001-02	Rugby-Regionalliga Baden-Württemberg Rugby-Regionalliga The Rugby-Regionalliga is the third-highest level of Germany's Rugby union league system, organised by the German Rugby Federation. Its set below the 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga...  (III)	6th
2002-03	Rugby-Regionalliga Baden-Württemberg	4th — Promoted
2003-04	2nd Rugby-Bundesliga South/West (II)	5th
2004-05	2nd Rugby-Bundesliga South/West	9th — Relegated
2005-08	did not compete 1
2008–09	Rugby-Regionalliga Baden-Württemberg (III)	1st — Promoted
2009–10 Rugby-Bundesliga 2009–10 -Overview:The 2009-10 modus was somewhat different from the previous season. The competition had been expanded from nine to ten teams. It marks the first time since introduction of the single-division Bundesliga in 2001, that ten teams competed in the league. This change of modus was decided upon...	2nd Rugby-Bundesliga South/West (II)	10th — Relegated
2010–11	Verbandsliga Baden-Württemberg (V)	?
2011–12	Regionalliga Baden-Württemberg (IV)

• ¹ From 2005 to 2008, the club did not field an independent team but rather played in a partnership with clubs from Heidelberg
  Heidelberg
  -Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...
  
   and Pforzheim
  Pforzheim
  Pforzheim is a town of nearly 119,000 inhabitants in the state of Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany at the gate to the Black Forest. It is world-famous for its jewelry and watch-making industry. Until 1565 it was the home to the Margraves of Baden. Because of that it gained the nickname...
  
  

External links

Official website Karlsruher SV club info at totalrugby.de